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Competency-Based Education

Are You Putting Learners First? Here are 8 Ways to Check Yourself

[…] craft. If we are really here to do the work of serving every learner, where they are, in real-time so that they become agents for their own learning who are prepared for life after high school, it’s necessary that we make a shift to students-centered practices that ground in anti-oppressive practices, inclusivity and cultural […]

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Future of Learning

Invention Opportunity: Measuring What Matters

By: Devin Vodicka. It's time for an invention opportunity around assessments - create new policies, practices, and tools that encourage the development of purposeful goals tied to whole-child and competency-based learning progressions.

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New Pathways

The Learner-Centered Competency-Based Learning Management System

[…] in the adult learning landscape. The Capable platform provides extensive lesson-building tools, a project-based learning interface and a competency-based dashboard. LiFT Learning, Foundry and HEADRUSH Learning are both project-based and competency-based learning platforms with sophisticated and customizable interfaces and reporting for school partners. MyLC was launched by the Kettle-Moraine School District (WI) and is customizable for other schools interested […]

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Competency-Based Education

Shining the Competency Education Light on Education in the Time of COVID-19

[…] as for future unanticipated economic, technological, and climate-related disruptions to come.  But it is a mistake to only focus on the technology and online instruction alone. Remote learning is primarily about where students are learning. Technology is simply the delivery system whether it is used in the classroom or at home. It’s the process […]

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Future of Learning

The Great Education Unbundling and How Learning Will be Rebundled

[…] degree.   In response to rising costs, new forms of higher ed have emerged around the edges. Twenty years ago, Western Governors University launched an affordable self-paced and competency-based model. Almost 10 years ago, massively open online courses (MOOC) broke onto the scene with free courses from the world’s best professors. Coursera was launched by two […]

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Competency-Based Education

Measuring Learning Growth: Competencies and Standards

[…] measures of assessment to be both valid (correctly measuring what you want to measure) and accurate (being consistent in what you measure). Standards-based While standards-based is not competency-based, it is certainly related and worth explaining. The main difference lies in the granularity of a standard (very specific) compared to the more broad skill applications […]

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EdTech

Smart List: Learning Platforms

[…] focused, others are more focused on specific learning trajectories. What has emerged over the last four years are more legacy platforms attempting to adopt project-based, personalize, or competency-based features and emerging platforms beginning with these next-generation features. The pandemic only accelerated the development and adoption of personalized LMS platforms that better meet the needs […]

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New Pathways

How Deep is Their Learning?

Deeper learning isn’t found within the practice of project-based instruction, personalized instruction or competency-based instruction but how the learner applies that instruction.

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