Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

As interest in skills-based hiring increases, more and more companies and states are eliminating degree requirements. Skills-based credentials are valuable because they state specific skills in which a learner achieved or displayed competence.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2025

Imagine a recent graduate armed with a degree but struggling to convey their specific skills to potential employers. Now picture that same graduate confidently presenting a suite of microcredentials that precisely showcase their abilities. This scenario isnt just possible; its becoming increasingly necessary in todays competitive job market.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2016

They offer comprehensive visa support, particularly for Optional Practical Training (OPT) opportunities, which have increased in importance as the H1B route has become more competitive. The program is also opening a new training center to provide English language instruction to non-native speakers and language learners.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2021

We need training. The other thing that the teachers get is support in training. But as you can imagine, more intense support, more intense training takes a lot of resources. From the beginning, one of your key philosophies has been mastery learning. I view competency-based learning as a form of mastery learning.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 2, 2018

CoSN positions itself as the only national professional association dedicated exclusively to education technology leaders working to transform learning. Main themes that can be found in their work include personalized and competency based learning, blended and online learning. Digital Promise. Level: K12.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2019

an online children’s “thinking training platform” ranked second, completing a $40 million Series C round. All deals in vocational training amounted to about $593 million, or a third of the financing in the edtech sector during the quarter. Sapiu Training provides personal trainers and customized courses for working out in gyms.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Sean entered Locust Grove Middle School as it was implementing “competency-based” learning, which tailors schooling to each child’s ability. He and others say the proposal would require new money for training, technological support and more teachers. Like most principals, he already had a teacher-training budget.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2019

Because learning is student-driven rather than teacher-driven, learner-paced rather than unit-paced, technology is critical to the rollout of this approach. That means not only digital devices but infrastructure and teacher training. When I read this article about it, I got pretty excited. What is MBL. What does it look like?

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2017

But were entities to emerge that paired online learning, with its flexibility and competency-based learning attributes, with place-based clinical experiences that trained students to practice law in a more affordable and practice-oriented fashion, the pressure on law schools would only increase.

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Edsurge

JULY 1, 2016

Competency-based learning has received widespread recognition as a way to better align higher education to careers. On higher ed’s biggest weakness: Philosophy is probably the single most important major any institution can offer in terms of intellectual training. …

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TeachThought - Learn better.

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.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 26, 2015

For the 2014-15 school year, Piedmont Middle School, in rural northeast Alabama, reimagined how its students learn by letting them progress based on their mastery of skills and standards. Despite a full year of planning and training, teachers didn’t feel comfortable giving up so much control to students.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2017

No one wants to feel like a cog in the wheel, especially not when it comes to something as personal as learning. EdSurge: I wanted to talk about your Humanizing Online Learning training course. Can you tell us about the online training course you teach for professors? To me, that's not what learning is about.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The result was the adoption of “a learner centered, personalized, competency-based” approach that allows students to meet learning goals on their own terms, Rooney said. Related: Why a high-performing district is changing everything with competency-based learning. Training the teachers. Does it work?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

State leaders from Utah to Michigan to North Carolina are getting more involved in figuring out how to support the expansion of personalized, competency-based learning, she said, although it’s too early to decipher how much of the stimulus money flowing to school districts will go toward these efforts. The response?

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MindShift

JULY 9, 2015

If a student fails to learn a skill, he or she accepts that result and moves on to the next topic with the rest of the class. Competency-based learning, on the other hand, insists on mastery of subjects and provides students the time to learn; the students are not marched past failure.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2018

The “Great Dome” on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which is hosting an experimental program to recruit physicists, engineers, chemists, linguists, biologists, neuroscientists and other experts and train them to be primary and secondary school teachers. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2017

Cederick Ellis and Summit Elementary School principal Lakya Taylor-Washington, the bigger asset in going personalized comes down to removing arbitrary grade level assignments and creating “learning labs,” a style of competency-based learning that Summit has been experimenting with since 2015.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

We enrolled in the fellowship program, which began with a one-week training in the summer of 2019, put on by the nonprofit that developed the model, and extended into coaching throughout the current school year. It turned out that our sixth-grade English and science classes thrived under the model.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Through examinations of classroom surveys such as Project Tomorrow’s Speak Up , the Flipped Learning Global Initiative estimates that around 16 percent of U.S. teachers are currently flipping their teaching, and 35 percent would like training on the subject; 46 percent of principals want new teachers who know how to flip a classroom.

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Tom Murray

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

I’ve been able to see firsthand how school leaders are implementing exciting innovations that are accelerating high quality teaching and learning—things such as Open Education Resources (OER) , repurposing their spaces , completely overhauling how they assess a child’s growth by shifting to a competency-based learning model , among other things.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2018

They’re getting the accurate training they need, and I think that puts them at a huge advantage over a student who is still doing it the traditional way. Now they can do those things in a much faster, more efficient, and—best of all—extremely accurate way because so much of this content is created with support from the industry.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Across the country, schools are adopting new approaches to teaching and learning in order to prepare students for life in a technology-rich world. Yet as schools break away from traditional models of education, new challenges emerge. We wanted to know: what do educators see as their top challenges? Why is this important?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

A growing number of states and local communities are examining how to shift to student-centered, competency-based learning systems. Denver Public Library Dev Camp : a week-long summer camp where young adults learn the basics of web development, including HTML and CSS, as well as an introduction to JavaScript. .

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 2, 2015

It was during a panel discussion on Competency Based Learning, where he explained the research for the prioritized competencies began with “federal skills databases.” And just as universities haven’t been “job training facilities,” more immediately, neither has K-12. Even efficient.

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Linways Technologies

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Colleges are now at a crossroad to decide whether to continue with the broad spectrum of knowledge based education, or to shift to a skill based learning where they train students to learn faster and more efficiently so that they can be more responsive to the changes of the industry and have options in the future.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2015

Gooru’s enhanced, free K-12 content will support a variety of innovative educational models and facilitate the growth of competency-based learning.”. Free online training will be offered to familiarize Activate users with Gooru. Migrating content is the first step in transitioning Activate users to Gooru.

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Educator Innovator

MARCH 25, 2015

The Leveraging Linked Learning and Career-ready Badges project, funded by the Irvine Foundation , will create and prototype digital badges with Linked Learning educators in California. Stay tuned for more updates as the projects progress! By An-Me Chung. Original Post/ Webmaker.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

They get frequent updates on which skills they’ve learned and which ones they need to acquire. Mastery-based learning, also known as proficiency-based or competency-based learning, is taking hold across the country. We were not reaching all of these kids,” Genduso said. “We

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Educator Innovator

MARCH 25, 2015

The Leveraging Linked Learning and Career-ready Badges project, funded by the Irvine Foundation , will create and prototype digital badges with Linked Learning educators in California. Stay tuned for more updates as the projects progress! By An-Me Chung Original Post/ Webmaker

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Turning Learning On Its Head

APRIL 3, 2016

Lately I have been thinking about how flipped learning, mastery learning, and competency based learning (CBL) intersect. I believe that implementing a Flipped Mastery approach is a practical way to personalize learning for each kid. Ara was reading a book about learning and we struck up a conversation.

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MindShift

JANUARY 18, 2018

And by putting other talents first, it’s also a closely watched reversal of the conventional approach to training them. “We This gives them experience with a process, known as competency-based learning, that a growing number of primary and secondary schools where they’ll eventually teach are beginning to adopt.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Schools used their professional development budgets, and were able to use federal money, for teacher training to support work toward the switch. As of mid-2018, 17 states were in “advanced” stages of proficiency-based learning, also sometimes called competency-based learning.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2016

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. Skype in the Classroom is a free community of educators from around the world and offers a variety of resources on getting started.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The learning model Dr. Martin presented is known as Competency-Based Learning, and one key aspect is that learners “articulate” their own progress toward competencies. This started with the campus leaders and included book studies and regional trainings with campus teams. Kimberly Hatten, Ed.D.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

When school leadership made this announcement in August during our staff training, I immediately felt overwhelmed and confused. “We’ve blocked three days off leading up to the first day of school for curriculum and lesson planning. You’ve got time to plan ahead.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2016

Student learner pathways are customized based on students’ strengths, weaknesses and goals; and learning experiences vary. Competency based learning allows students to increase ownership and responsibility in their learning and choice in their pacing. Students also have the ability to work at their own pace.

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