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OPINION: Let’s use the pandemic as a dress-rehearsal for much-needed digital transformation

The Hechinger Report

Platforms like these help improve student outcomes by enhancing teachers’ ability to meet individual students’ needs. These tools are key to bolstering educator capacity and addressing the inequities exacerbated during pandemic distance learning. They also allow learners to master new skills at their own pace, in their own way.

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5 critical considerations for CBE and CBL implementation

eSchool News

Are academic credentials simply assumed to represent relevant learning, or do they actually document and verify competencies with evidence of learning? Are we meeting the needs of lifelong learners? First and Foremost, Focus on Learning.

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What Does a School Need to Enable Learning Based on Student Competency?

MindShift

Many teachers have long been frustrated with static, canned curriculum that doesn’t seem connected to kids’ lives, and testing requirements that drive the learning experience. ’ Competency education refers to a break from the traditional time-based school model.

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Why There’s Little Consistency in Defining Competency-Based Education

Edsurge

Enter competency-based learning (CBE), a term introduced in the 1970s when the U.S. The core promise of CBE, she says, is to create a system where teachers can provide the instructional support meet all students’ needs, regardless of where they are at. Some terms, including “open,” get appended to specific use cases.

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What do at-risk students, English language learners and adult college students have in common?

The Hechinger Report

With more college students now considered nontraditional than traditional, higher education institutions have been scrambling to shift their models to better meet their needs. Many have turned to competency-based education, known as CBE, to reach the increasingly important returning adult learner.

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Has New Hampshire found the secret to online education that works?

The Hechinger Report

There’s an assumption that virtual school students are closed off, online all day, and they don’t ever meet anyone. During these introductory sessions, by phone or web chat, Kent explains course logistics — for example, how she and the student will meet (virtually) at least once a month and how to upload weekly assignments.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Teachers Are Moonlighting As Instagram Influencers To Make Ends Meet,” Buzzfeed reported in 2018. But for Thrun, the reference to Uber was not about “choice” but about labor — specifically about building a platform to be used by a precarious workforce, lured into piecework with the promise of a big payout. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon.

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