The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2023

They want step-by-step guidance on how to tackle challenges. That’s why I’m a fan of personalized and competency-based learning environments, in which young people do learn these skills. Education must adapt so that it nurtures problem solvers and critical thinkers.

Competency Based Learning 116

Competency Based Learning Policies Advocacy Report 116

Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

I attribute this success to our pre-pandemic strategy — we already had a blended learning system in place that helped us accommodate remote education. As schools and universities reopen their gates, there’s great hope that there will soon be more in-person learning. Read more: How to create accessible e-learning design.

Online Learning 349

Online Learning Competency Based Learning Differentiated Instruction Learning 349

Neo LMS

MAY 18, 2021

Students should master learning content but also abilities such as adaptability, resilience, and agency. Read more: How to enhance students’ work-ready skills. Teaching ensures performance, personalized learning , alternative learning pathways, self-paced learning, adjustment of content, and continuous support.

Learning 317

Learning LMS Competency Based Learning Outcomes 317

Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

As a consequence, the whole day was spent contemplating how will I ever get that knowledge and whether I was going to fall behind. Smart kids knew how to pay attention so I just had to be one of them. Here are a few ideas on using edtech to promote growth mindset: Showing progress through competency-based learning.

EdTech 407

EdTech Competency Based Learning Gamification LMS 407

EdTech Magazine

MARCH 12, 2019

The tricky part is how to actually go about doing those things, and convincing everyone around you that they should be striving for that approach as well. How do you get that done? Let’s start with what personalized learning is — or should be — and go from there. K–12 Departments Must Find Common Ground.

Competency Based Learning 239

Competency Based Learning Blended Learning Personalized Learning Adaptive Learning 239

Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2021

When COVID closed the door on in-person schooling in spring 2020, one of the biggest concerns for school districts was how to address the needs of students who experience cognitive learning challenges and/or physical disabilities. From the conversations, the following big ideas emerged: Student agency is paramount.

Adaptive Learning 212

Adaptive Learning Meeting AEM UDL 212

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2019

Because learning is student-driven rather than teacher-driven, learner-paced rather than unit-paced, technology is critical to the rollout of this approach. Thanks to online tools such as Kiddom , it’s easier than ever to peg student achievement to specific learning standards. What is MBL. What does it look like?

Khan Academy 185

Khan Academy Learning Competency Based Learning Assessment 185

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The science of learning and development, enabled by technology, can help us support teachers’ efforts to address their students’ unique learning needs. Tools powered by artificial intelligence will also help. Related: How to plan for a future of education where disruption is the norm.

Competency Based Learning 109

Competency Based Learning Data Policies Examples 109

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

They have a Personalized Learning Implementation Framework that guides users through 25 key areas of personalized learning. It helps schools and districts assess their needs, recognize their strengths and how to work with those, and map out a plan. Tool: Education Elements Puts It All in One Place.

Education Elements 60

Education Elements Competency Based Learning Personalized Learning Blended Learning 60

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2023

For more than 100 years, high schools and colleges have relied on the same stalwart tool to measure teaching and learning: the clock. Now, the institution that developed the time-based standard more than a century ago that is used throughout education is calling for the creation of a different way to quantify academic progress.

Classroom 214

Classroom Learning Company Assessment 214

Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2015

Do you think others could learn from the way you conduct ed-tech pilots to inform product decisions? Digital Promise is crowdsourcing best practices for piloting learning technology tools, and we want to hear from you! So, do you think you have a pilot approach others could learn from? 8 PM ET, March 27, 2015.

Robotics 120

Robotics Education Competency Based Learning Program Evaluation 120

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2017

Does competency-based education hold the key to providing an equitable learning opportunity to every student? As she puts it, competency-based learning “gives students the chance. Distinctive Schools network, we have been on a journey implementing personalized learning that takes a competency based approach.

Competency Based Learning 79

Competency Based Learning Learning Assessment Groups 79

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

Regardless, Chen’s team—along with a slew of educators and researchers across the country—are committed to finding out how to measure these key skills meaningfully. We take a look at how it’s going. At Nueva, when it comes to assessment, standards-based grading is king. But this tool is also far from perfect.

Survey 98

Survey Assessment Report Academic Standards 98

Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

These activities’ requirements are a video conferencing tool that preferably integrates with your learning management system (LMS) and basic knowledge of creating online lessons, which the LMS already enables teachers to do. You don’t need to add any more apps, but it can help switch things up a bit and use some subject-specific tools.

LMS 397

LMS Competency Based Learning Examples Guidelines 397

Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Whether you’re in a 1:1 device environment or using a new learning management system, parents will appreciate understanding the instructional tools their kids are using in class. Demonstrate how to check grades, order spirit wear, view weekly lesson plans, and—during spring conference season—register for next year’s courses.

Conference 60

Conference Technology ePortfolio LMS 60

Tech Helpful

MARCH 27, 2017

How do we make sure students are truly answering from their knowledge bank and not their ability to ask Google good questions? How do we make sure students are learning how to use tools beyond technology? Is this why schools are trying to shift away from grades-based learning to competency-based learning?

Digital Citizenship 40

Digital Citizenship Competency Based Learning Google Elementary 40

MindShift

MARCH 25, 2015

Three main ways schools are attempting this work are through technology use, an emphasis on personalizing learning and moving toward a mastery-based or competency-based evaluation system. The report defines personalized learning as “tailor[ing] learning to students’ strengths, needs, interests and experiences.”

Blended Learning 28

Blended Learning Learning Competency Based Learning System 28

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

MARCH 10, 2020

This entry is an attempt to compile a useful -- but by no means exhaustive -- list of CBE related books that I personally feel have been either extremely illuminating in pragmatic ways (detailed models, insightful anecdotes, clear "how to's") or it inspired me to stay the course. Often the same book did both! Stack and Jonathan G.

Competency Based Learning 52

Competency Based Learning Education Blended Learning Common Core 52

techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

www.getalma.com ) Alma Technologies has announced it is allowing any SQL-based business intelligence tool, such as Tableau and Jaspersoft, to access data from its modern, student information system and learning management system. Software & Online ALMA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Big Universe is now available in the U.S.

Tools 73

Tools PresenceLearning Edmodo Blackboard 73

Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

Enter competency-based learning (CBE), a term introduced in the 1970s when the U.S. Having more time isn’t going to change much if schools haven’t thought about how to do this.”. Some terms, including “open,” get appended to specific use cases. It’s not about time, it’s about giving students more instructional support.

Competency Based Learning 99

Competency Based Learning Education Policies Assessment 99

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Affluent students get to digital tools for creative exploration; poor students get to use theirs for test prep.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

Inside Higher Ed reports that “ National University is working to create a personalized education platform that combines three of the buzziest innovations in higher education – adaptive learning, competency-based learning and predictive analytics for student retention.”

Khan Academy 46

Khan Academy Elsevier Education MOOC 46