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What’s the Difference Between Project- and Challenge-Based Learning, Anyway?

Edsurge

Here’s a quick exercise for those in education: What do the letters CBL stand for? For many, competency-based learning might have been the first thing to pop in their heads. But others might have considered challenge-based, community-based or even case-based learning. Department of Education.

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Finding ‘Personalized Learning’ and Other Edtech Buzzwords on the Gartner Hype Cycle

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As Clayton Christensen recently said to me, just as people have taken the phrase “disruptive innovation” to justify whatever they already wanted to do, people are using the phrase personalized learning—and a whole host of other terms—in a similar manner. Peak of Inflated Expectations: Personalized Learning. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

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Giving Students Flexibility With Competency-Based Education

Digital Promise

I wanted to see teachers guiding their students through individualized learning, units that are unique and cater to the multiple learning styles, and technology-rich classrooms that aided in the whole competency-based approach to learning. I walked in a 4 th grade class and noticed that each student had an iPad.

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How to support your students’ executive functioning skills with the help of your LMS

Neo LMS

In this article, we’ll discuss executive functioning skills and their importance as well as ways to teach them with the help of your learning management system (LMS). Students are generally guided by the teacher and parents throughout their learning journey. What are the most important executive functioning skills? Regulating emotions.

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Personalized Learning “Twister”: A Future of Learning Live Demo in Dallas

EdNews Daily

If you ask a dozen educators to define personalized learning, you’ll no doubt get some enthusiastic answers, and all twelve will probably be different. The new-school answer to the definition of personalized learning is markedly different. Lectures are now scheduled events or meet-ups.

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Amazing Grace Adkins – my 89 year old learning lab director and the most amazing woman I know

The CoolCatTeacher

FlexPath – only at Capella University – lets teachers work at their own pace to earn their MEd in a competency-based learning format. This subscription-based tuition model doesn’t limit the number of courses you can complete during each 12-week period, enrolling in up to two courses at once, for one flat tuition rate.

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Why Flipped Learning Is Still Going Strong 10 Years Later

Edsurge

Perhaps also because as flipped learning has evolved, it has adopted much more of an open-ended definition. The promise of more time for active learning is key to the flipped appeal, its fans say. Namely, his videos were approaching critical mass just around the same time as flipped learning was coming into its own. “I