Digital Promise

OCTOBER 6, 2020

School districts are seeing the value of embedding micro-credentials in existing professional learning pathways to promote educator agency, recognize educators developing their practice, and expand competency-based learning practices with students.

Professional Learning 343

Professional Learning Competency Based Learning Learning Survey 343

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

Also note, the point of this post isn’t to showcase how innovative higher education is but rather to point out innovations that are out there as a kind of survey while also hopefully helping pollinate the possibility of innovation in the upper end of the field and ‘industry’ of education. Competency-Based Learning.

Examples 140

Examples MOOC Education Competency Based Learning 140

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

Bob LaRocca, Director of Policy and Communication at. His Boston-based consultancy works with districts to identify relevant MESH (Mental, Emotional, and Social Health) skills, and disseminate tools to build and assess those competencies. Surveys are by far the most common, making up over 90% of available tools.

Survey 105

Survey Assessment Report Academic Standards 105

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

It is burdensome and takes big chunks of time away from learning. At conferences on education policy and innovation we have heard the system referred to as an “albatross” and the “tail that wags the dog.” A growing number of states and local communities are examining how to shift to student-centered, competency-based learning systems.

System 60

System Competency Based Learning Education Assessment 60

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

As of mid-2018, 17 states were in “advanced” stages of proficiency-based learning, also sometimes called competency-based learning. Another 13 were in “developing” stages of adoption, according to Competency Works , an online project of iNACOL, an education research nonprofit. I’m an educated person.

Learning 89

Learning System Report Outcomes 89

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2022

,” she added, giving the example of how to handle revising a financial-aid reward if, say, a student is switching from a traditional program to a competency-based one mid-year. We're continually revising policy. Meanwhile, competency-based programs have attracted fans among some college students—particularly adults.

Education 109

Education Conference System Report 109

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

And certainly the expectation of many ed-tech products (and increasingly school policy) is that parents will do just this — participate in the incessant monitoring of student data. The sale, the FTC contended, would violate ConnectEDU’s own privacy policy, and it requested that users be notified so they could request their data be destroyed.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145