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4 Digital learning trends for Higher Education

Neo LMS

Higher Education (HE) has significantly lagged behind other industries on the road to digitization. Despite the growing demand for edtech and online learning, face-to-face lectures and on-campus activities remained the core part of how students accessed their education. Competency-based learning.

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The PROs and CONs of competency-based education

Neo LMS

In a previous post I talked about competency-based learning and how this might be the ultimate approach to education. Students attend courses, do assignments, get credits and eventually graduate based on what they know, not on how much time it took them to gain that knowledge. What’s in it for students.

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Toilet Paper Hands: Empowering Students With Skills-Based Economic Education to Accelerate Financial Literacy

eSchool News

The learning resources provide comprehensive instruction with practice materials to reinforce the lessons and help students achieve optimal outcomes. The complete multimedia learning system is designed as a financial competencies-based learning resource for educators.

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What If We Measured Learning Through Skills Gained, Not Time Spent in the Classroom?

Edsurge

The goal is to help more young people “lead purposeful lives” by shifting toward competency-based education, says Timothy Knowles, president of the Carnegie Foundation. I think the testing industry is very nervous,” he says. Like the reality that it takes different students different amounts of time to acquire skills.

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Higher Ed’s Credit Transfer System Is Broken. Here’s a Better Way.

Edsurge

In an education world driven more by inputs than learning outcomes, it’s hard to prove the case one way or the other. For it to work, the third-party organizations that certify learning would need to offer industry standards that establish specifications for learning—much like the bodies that determine standards for USB ports.

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K-12 Educators and Administrators: Share Your Ed-tech Pilot Approach

Digital Promise

Digital Promise will award up to ten school or district leaders who submit a response by March 27 with a $1,000 stipend for a trip to San Francisco, including workshops with leading software companies, in partnership with the Education Technology Industry Network. ” Mahnaz Charania. . So we want to try something new.”

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5 critical considerations for CBE and CBL implementation

eSchool News

How do we get from educational “business as usual” to cultural changes, even transformation, that make learning central? Stakeholders who determine the value to credentials and competencies are more concerned with competency-based learning (CBL), which is a broader concept than CBE.