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OPINION: We need more problem solvers and critical thinkers for an increasingly complex world

The Hechinger Report

That’s why I’m a fan of personalized and competency-based learning environments, in which young people do learn these skills. Students assess their own strengths and weaknesses and set learning goals in partnership with their teachers. The recent announcement by the U.S.

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Khan Academy Wants to Make 'Mastery Learning' Mainstream. Will Partnering With Schools Help?

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Ideally, integration with our assessments. For those who may not know that concept, what is your elevator pitch for mastery learning? After a little bit of lecture and homework for a couple of weeks, you give an assessment. I view competency-based learning as a form of mastery learning. Yes and no.

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

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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. That’s a competency.

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Competency Based Learning: How Flipped Mastery Makes CBL Possible

Turning Learning On Its Head

In 2011, a group of educators met at the Competency Based Learning Summit. During that Summit, the leaders identified five key tenets of Competency Based Learning (CBL): Students advance upon mastery. Competencies include explicit, measurable, transferable learning objectives that empower students.

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Does the future of schooling look like Candy Land?

The Hechinger Report

The pandemic unleashed “tremendous interest” in revisiting assessments, said Jean-Claude Brizard, president and chief executive officer of Digital Promise, a nonprofit organization that promotes innovation in education. The vehicle that drives this is student engagement, not ‘Learn or I’ll hurt you,’ ” he added. And Daniel A.

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In Utah, personalizing learning by focusing on relationships

The Hechinger Report

For the last three years in a row, it has been 97 percent, and the superintendent attributes the whole of that increase to the district’s efforts to personalize learning. In 2011, Jim Shank, the superintendent then, spearheaded a one-to-one iPod program, seeing the promise of technology as a means of giving students targeted academic support.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2011, Ning was acquired by “lifestyle” site Glam Media for around $150 million. In 2011, the Mozilla Foundation unveiled its “Open Badges Project,” “an effort to make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web.”

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