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Considering Competency-Based Education
The shift from time to learning, from cohorts to competency, will be tough. It’s not easy or superficial--it’s a new and different way of organizing schools.
Infographic | Pearson on College Readiness
In order to better understand the state of college readiness, Pearson has released a series of infographics, which explores three critical areas of college readiness: pre-college, entry/assessment/placement, and developmental education.
It’s Time for The Next Big Advance: Comparable Growth Measures
The most important next step in the shift to personal digital learning is the need for comparable growth measures for individual students. With the explosion of adaptive assessment and instruction and the widespread use of digital curriculum with embedded assessments, there is a growing need to be able to compare measures of student progress.
The High School Challenge: Improvement vs. Innovation
How to help more students graduate ready for college and careers? We’re exploring the perennial question at the A+ Urban High School Summit in Denver.
Next Generation Professional Training, Blending For-Me & For-Degree
Combining the benefits of anywhere, anytime interest-driven learning with standards-based learning is the design opportunity of our time. The explosion of anytime, anywhere learning is making new thought experiments possible. Even in professional education resulting in certification, it is possible to create pathways that are more active and work-based with more just-in-time learning rather than just-in-case learning.
Finding the Right Level: Adaptivity in Learning Games
One of the things that keeps game players engaged is the presentation of exactly the right level of challenge at exactly the right time. Keeping the game play at a level that is challenging but not overwhelming appears to be key to engaging players.
From Batch Print to Show What You Know
The shift from print to digital is a big deal, but in many ways the shift from cohorts to competency is the more profound transformation underway in education.
6 Vectors Advancing Personalized Learning
Personalized learning will significantly improve achievement levels, boosting completion rates in both K-12 and postsecondary education. That claim is based on six recent developments.
7 Things Next Gen Schools Will Do Well
Seventeen years ago as a new superintendent I was invited to Microsoft to learn about 1:1 programs in Australia. The architect of those programs, Bruce Dixon, told a compelling story of student engagement in transformed learning environments.
Infographic: Show What You Know Beats Batch Processing
The Show What You Know Beats Batch Processing infographic complements our recently released paper, “The Shift From Cohorts to Competency”. t