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What’s the Difference Between Project- and Challenge-Based Learning, Anyway?

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Here’s a quick exercise for those in education: What do the letters CBL stand for? For many, competency-based learning might have been the first thing to pop in their heads. But others might have considered challenge-based, community-based or even case-based learning. Department of Education.

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How to support your students’ executive functioning skills with the help of your LMS

Neo LMS

For instance, consistently being on time for class is an underappreciated time management exercise. For example, students can set learning goals such as “Learn fractions” and the platform will automatically show them content recommendations such as “watch this video about fractions.”. Organization.

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Finding ‘Personalized Learning’ and Other Edtech Buzzwords on the Gartner Hype Cycle

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Taking a step back though, we can imagine environments personalizing learning along a great variety of dimensions. We can also allow students to personalize by exercising choice in how they learn something. We can also give students choice in what they learn. Slope of Enlightenment: Competency-Based Learning.

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?Higher Ed Innovators Maze: Where to Go, How to Start, How to Get There

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Higher education innovation” is no different, though instead of flying cars and Mars colonies, what likely comes to mind first are online and competency-based learning platforms, learning management systems, or electronic whiteboards. We need to think of implementing tech as a design exercise.

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The Canary in the Law School Coal Mine

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The steps law schools are taking—in the hope they can survive just long enough for pre-crisis status quo conditions to return—represent a doubling down on their traditional strategies. Most are trying to maintain their prestige within the legacy model used to rank and compare law schools: the U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings.

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A school where you can’t fail — it just takes you longer to learn

The Hechinger Report

The only goal is to learn the material, sooner or later. The strategy looks different in every classroom, as does the material that students must master. They get frequent updates on which skills they’ve learned and which ones they need to acquire. For struggling students, there is ample practice, until they get it.

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Where Are You on Your Personalized Learning Journey?

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So the entire school, including the students, held a weeklong design thinking exercise on what they thought school should look like. After taking the helm, Smith realized that students who had previously failed in other places were coming to the same model of education that had previously failed them.