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5 Ways Learner Profiles Can Promote Competency-Based Education
Competency-based environments encourage ownership over learning and move students at their own pace and according to their own needs. Learner profiles can play an important role in facilitating competency-based learning. Here are five ways learner profiles promote competency-based learning
20 Ways Education Will Improve by 2020
It’s getting easier to learn anything anywhere. It’s getting easier to create learning environments that work better for teachers and students. Here are 20 ways that learning (K-20) will change over the next five (or 10) years.
Learner Profiles: The New Glue to Unbundled K-20
Whether a traditional school environment augmented by an after school program and online resources, or a full Education Savings Account program, learning is now an anywhere anytime multi-resource adventure. It should be facilitated by a learner profile.
Micro-credentials for Personalized, Powerful Professional Learning
A new report from Digital Promise further explores the potential of micro-credentials for educators. Digital Promise released Making Professional Learning Count: Recognizing Educators’ Skills with Micro-credentials -- a report that shares the results of a survey of teachers on their views on professional development and micro-credentials.
4 Essential Competency-Based Education Commitments for HigherEd Leaders
If higher education institutions can remain focused on these core commitments, then competency-based education can make a substantive contribution to improving the quality of education, access for those not well served by traditional models, and building a closer relationship with employers and improved employability for graduates.
Personalizing and Guiding College & Career Readiness
A DLN Smart Series paper that offers details on processes, existing tools and best practices for creating a system of student guidance and support.
Blended Learning Credit Recovery: Best Practices from iNACOL
In a new report, Using Online Learning for Credit Recovery: Getting Back on Track to Graduation, the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) identifies best practices in online and blended credit recovery programs.
Utah EdLeaders Consider Competency
Co-authored with Karla Phillips. Elected officials, state board members, K-12 and HigherEd leaders gathered at Southern Utah University for a Joint Education Conference to talk system improvement and innovation. The discussions addressed five potential next steps including flexibility from time based systems, a transition to proficiency-based diplomas and anytime, anywhere learning.
Micro-Credentials: The Future of Professional Learning
Like students, educators deserve a clear map of what they need to know and be able to do, multiple ways to learn, and options for demonstrating mastery. In most cases we think progress will be marked with a stackable series of micro-credentials.
A Reflection on the Field of Competency Education
By: Chris Sturgis. In perhaps the year's best blog on competency education, we examine the expansion of CompetencyEd, progress by leading organizations, the greatest weakness currently in the field and current Issues going forward.