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Interoperability Boosts the Speed of School Communications

EdTech Magazine

Interoperable networks don’t just allow teachers to share information with each other, but also streamline outside learning tools directly to students. Georgia’s Total Learning Architecture , a similar project, acts as a hub for students and teachers to access traditional, virtual, personalized and competency-based learning.

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New Report Sheds Light on Higher Ed’s Innovation Challenges

Edsurge

OLC’s Buban says that the online environment is “ripe for innovation” because there are many opportunities to be “inclusive of education technology,” such as digital courseware and OER. Though that’s not to say that digital learning can’t be used well in a traditional classroom, she adds.

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Does Your District Have a Solid Data Foundation?

Tom Murray

I’ve been able to see firsthand how school leaders are implementing exciting innovations that are accelerating high quality teaching and learning—things such as Open Education Resources (OER) , repurposing their spaces , completely overhauling how they assess a child’s growth by shifting to a competency-based learning model , among other things.

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Southern New Hampshire University’s Paul LeBlanc Wants Higher Ed to Back Up Its Claims

Edsurge

Competency-based learning has received widespread recognition as a way to better align higher education to careers. You get into things like bundling, you think about OER and alternatives to expensive content. . Disclosure: 1776 is an investor in EdSurge.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

There’s more on the GED, that very old competency-based learning exam, in the research section below. Edsurge covers OpenEd : “Beyond Free Materials: OER Advocates Push For Inclusiveness in Teaching Practices.” “ Does OER Actually Improve Learning? Go, School Sports Team! ”).

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. CZI took over the engineering of the learning management system from Facebook in 2017.).

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