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MAY 12, 2020

Competency-Based Learning. Competency-Based Education is something I’m hearing more and more about, which is neither bad nor good, but worth understanding more carefully. With that in mind, I started out with the more common, perhaps less exciting examples. New kinds of certification and degrees.

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Examples MOOC Education Competency Based Learning 141

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Or maybe it stemmed from the fact that anyone could get the gist of the teaching idea in the time it takes to rattle off a sound bite. We feel that everything is changing,” says Sigrún Svafa, a Danish-language teacher in Iceland who has traveled across Europe as a flipped-learning trainer. “I It’s a simple model,” says Bergmann.

Flipped Classroom 139

Flipped Classroom Khan Academy Learning Video 139

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

One of the first curricular tools I built to share—on the first day of school—was a public, student-friendly gradebook on Google Sheets. Yes, this was before Google Classroom existed!) This competency-based system made sense; if students were chronically absent, holding them accountable to a pacing calendar would prove futile.

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System Khan Academy EdTech LMS 124

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Many in Silicon Valley like to point to the Montessori experiences of famous founders like Larry Page, Sergei Brin, Jimmy Wales, and Jeff Bezos and suggest that their early childhood education helped make them creative thinkers — although it’s probably not fair to blame Montessori for the destructiveness to our democracy from Google and Amazon.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145