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Nine Ways States Can Create Competency-Based Education Systems
By: Dale Frost. Our public education system needs to enable competency-based learning through an alignment of both policy and practice. Moving from a time-based system to a learner-centered system requires systemic transformation.
Multiple Pathways to Competency-Based Education?
Competency education is a paradigm shift – it is a change in the underlying assumptions. This means there has to be a way to shake off the old assumptions, which is tricky to do when all of us have grown up in the traditional education system.
Next Generation K-12: 10 Implications for HigherEd
HigherEd institutions will need to enable a bundled multi-provider experience (or risk becoming part-time providers), focus on employability skills and experiences, and take learner experience much more seriously.
2020 Vision: A History of the Future
Written in past tense, 2020 Vision: A History of the Future is 440 pages of time travel into a best case scenario of how the next five years could be transformational for global learning. Organized around 10 signpost developments, each of the well designed chapters includes a problem statement and a list of solutions, profiles of GSV investees and sector leaders.
Roadmap: The Get-It-Together Guide for Figuring Out What to Do with Your Life
Roadmap: The Get-It-Together Guide for Figuring Out What to Do with Your Life from Roadtrip Nation is asks readers to ask themselves, “so what have you begun to imagine yourself doing? Have you let yourself believe that what you dream isn’t just possible, but inevitable?”
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.
The Liberal Arts Have a Bright Future in Competency-Based Learning
By: Michael Horn. Although competency-based learning in higher education is arising based on the need for more affordable programs that prepare students for the workforce, by no means is competency-based learning inherently synonymous with the demise of the liberal arts.
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.