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The typical student is not who you think. They may be older, distance, and more advanced than expected. That's where competency-based learning shines.
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"Competency-based learning" (CBL) is one of the newest buzz-phrases showing up on education blogs and in many legislative changes in education policy. New
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August 15, 2013 10:40 PM
Often the complaint or stopping point in the development for community level competency training at the industry endorsed level ... "We can't check competency online!".
There are really plenty of options though, from "selfie" videos of presentation delivery or skill demonstration, web-conference with video, Skype, FaceTime, YouTube upload, viewing and selecting the correct/incorrect video from a list ... the simple fact that creating video for distribution/sharing is almost too easy - a simple Press Here to publish online sometimes - means there really shoudn't be any need not to progress the online competency assessment model.
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Recently, I participated in two excellent Twitter chats on the #21stedchat hashtag. The first was about Assessing 21st Century Competencies and the second explored Marks and Grades in the 21st Cent...
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What is Competency Education? Why Competency Education The time for competency education has come. It is vitally important for our country to move away from the…
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he credit hour is still higher education’s gold standard, even after President Obama’s vague endorsement last month of competency-based education and its focus on “performance and results” rather than seat time. It’s unclear whether Obama’s call could help open the door for competency-based approaches by spurring changes to the current system of accreditation or the rules governing federal financial aid. Even so, colleges aren’t waiting on the feds.
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Pamela D Lloyd's curator insight,
February 3, 2013 4:04 PM
From very early in my life, possibly in my elementary school years, but certainly by the time I was in high school, I've felt that the age-based grouping of children for education was ineffective, holding some students back, while forcing others ahead before they were ready. Even without digital learning techniques, I believe that students, all students, benefit from a system that takes each individual's learning styles and needs into account, recognizing mastery (or competency, as it's referred to in this infographic) as the basis for placement in each subject. The advent of digital learning systems provides the means for making such a process easier and more cost-effective than ever before, and I hope that our schools, regardless of whether they are brick & mortar or via the Internet, will continue to explore ways to help every child learn in the way that works best for them. 
Antonia Rudenstine's curator insight,
July 27, 2015 4:57 PM
I don't think about competency in exactly this way...but this conversation is a fabulous one to be in.
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“The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.” This ancient Chinese proverb sums up my view on why just three years ago it was time for my school, Sanborn Region...
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Making Mastery Work: A Close-up View of Competence Education looks at the lessons learned by eleven schools that have taken part in the Proficiency-Based Pathways Project.
Read more, a MUST: http://www.educationnews.org/k-12-schools/competency-based-education-shows-promise-in-new-england/
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