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Strengthen Professional Learning with Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

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.

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9 Characteristics of authentic learning

Neo LMS

Student-directed learning. Flexibility of learning environment and resources. What’s more, they even take ownership of their learning and get involved in everything the process implies: setting the tasks, the problem-solving process, the learning environment and resources, and the assessment stage.

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How 2Revolutions is Helping Schools, Districts, and States Support Future of Learning Models

Edsurge

In 2011, Rubin and Kern co-authored and released, Designing The Future of Learning, a white paper focused on the transformation taking place in the educational system. The platform’s goal is to build connections between educators, allowing them to create and share resources that can help transform learning.

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Competency-Based Education: A Reading Journey

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

As Shelby County 's journey toward competency-based education (CBE) has become regionally and nationally known, educators often ask about resources we have discovered along the way. The book also helped me think more deeply about the importance of advisory scheduling, graduate profiles, and students doing defenses of learning.

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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. On a flight from Kuala Lumpur to New York in 2011 LeBlanc wrote “a little white paper” that set the stage for SNHU’s foray into direct-assessment programs. SNHU President Paul LeBlanc.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

techlearning

The NEO mobile app for Windows allows users to access the full feature set within the platform including creating and delivering online classes, assessing students, sharing resources, tracking student achievement, and collaborating on projects. These solutions will be offered to school librarians in the U.S.

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