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MAY 12, 2020

Competency-Based Learning. Competency-Based Education is something I’m hearing more and more about, which is neither bad nor good, but worth understanding more carefully. And just as universities haven’t been ‘job training facilities,’ more immediately, neither has K-12. We shall see.

Examples 143

Examples MOOC Education Competency Based Learning 143

Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

Last summer, we, along with other members of the sixth grade teaching staff at our school, adopted the Modern Classrooms model. Similar to the flipped classroom, the model is an approach based on blended learning, self-paced instruction, and mastery-based grading.

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Classroom Blended Learning Flipped Classroom Course 218

Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Skype in the Classroom is a free community of educators from around the world and offers a variety of resources on getting started. Offer training or resource sessions. If some parents don’t understand the technology you’re using in class, pool the conference slots and have groups of parents come in for personalized training.

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Conference Technology ePortfolio LMS 60

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

It became know as the flipped classroom—a modern, video-based version of a model pioneered by a handful of higher ed professors during the 1990s. Perhaps also because as flipped learning has evolved, it has adopted much more of an open-ended definition. It’s Not About Video—Until It Is.

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Flipped Classroom Khan Academy Learning Video 150

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Perhaps the district didn’t know what New York City learned when it audited its old data portal : it found that less than 3% of parents had ever logged in. There are a variety of reasons for this: language barriers, lack of Internet access, incompatible devices, lack of training. The Flipped Classroom". Brain Training.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145