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MAY 12, 2020

14 Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education. Today, I’m going back and updating the post with some new thinking, examples of innovation, a revised order, some links for context, and excerpts from longer papers on innovation at the university level. Six Common Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education. An example?

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

It was the first week of fifth grade and I was so ready to learn History. Make learning a priority. Educators need to be consistent with the messages they send and incorporate a growth mindset in what they do, including technology — or especially in the way they use technology to teach. Turn setbacks into future success.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 5, 2023

A standout example of this is Quest Academy Junior High School in Utah. During the spring of 2022, I met Nicki Slaugh , who serves as principal, and many of her staff at a school system where we were all there to facilitate professional learning on Personalized Competency-Based Learning (PCBL).

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Neo LMS

JUNE 28, 2022

Student autonomy in the classroom is essential for efficient learning. Students need to be able to learn at their own pace to better grasp and retain information Self-paced, personalized learning allows them to gradually accumulate knowledge and competencies according to their needs and level. .

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 9, 2022

However, since the pandemic, our teaching habits have changed and technology has become an intrinsic part of our profession. Even though we may have fully returned to in-person teaching, we’re still using technology in our classes. We all have a back-to-school checklist for teachers that we’ve perfected over the years.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 23, 2017

Over time they have evolved beyond just communication, collaboration, creativity, and global awareness to include entrepreneurship and emerging technological proficiency. As I reflected on her feedback I began to dive deeper into what the difference is between competencies and skills as well as their implications on learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

After unprecedented learning loss, growing disparities in educational outcomes and overall public dissatisfaction, the time is right for an education overhaul. Yet inflexibility is a hallmark of our current education system, apparent in our failure to meet the diverse learning needs of all our children. Now, almost every state does.

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EdTechTeacher

APRIL 20, 2019

A core element of personalized learning involves tailoring students’ path and pace to their specific needs and interests. This practice is often coupled with the overarching philosophy of mastery learning, sometimes referred to as competency-based education. Key Resource 1: What Is Competency Education? “A

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2019

An option several school districts I converse with are trying is called “mastery-based learning” — MBL. Learning is personalized, based on school standards. Student achievement is evaluated against school learning standards and performance expectations. What is MBL. What does it look like?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2021

A big idea driving Khan Academy is a belief in “mastery learning”—that students should show proficiency in one set of materials before moving on to the next. The nonprofit’s latest push to make mastery learning mainstream involves partnering with school districts who adopt Khan Academy’s materials and platform. How is that part going?

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2023

For more than 100 years, high schools and colleges have relied on the same stalwart tool to measure teaching and learning: the clock. Now, the institution that developed the time-based standard more than a century ago that is used throughout education is calling for the creation of a different way to quantify academic progress.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2017

For many, competency-based learning might have been the first thing to pop in their heads. But others might have considered challenge-based, community-based or even case-based learning. Cator’s organization has tried to brand CBL as challenge-based learning.) Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

For all parents, learning how to find an appropriate work-family balance is of paramount importance. For years, we have made it our mission to help educators reimagine their schools and classrooms with a model known as competency-based learning. Competency education differs from the way that most of us learned in school.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 21, 2022

In this article, we’ll discuss executive functioning skills and their importance as well as ways to teach them with the help of your learning management system (LMS). Students are generally guided by the teacher and parents throughout their learning journey. What are the most important executive functioning skills? Regulating emotions.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Kids are helped along by access to take-home devices and individualized learning plans that allow them to progress through class material at their own speed. While the pandemic still took its toll, adapting to online learning was smoother in Lindsay due to its preexisting infrastructure and history of adaptation.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

“Those weekly face-to-face sessions are as much about seeing people’s faces—seeing how tired they look, seeing how engaged they are in the material, seeing all of those kinds of things, and having that back and forth—as it is learning new content together,” she noted. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2022

What should come next is an examination of how schools can more deeply and deliberately harness technology to make high-quality learning accessible to every learner, even in the wake of a crisis. We know that each student learns differently. Tools powered by artificial intelligence will also help.

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Neo LMS

MAY 21, 2019

They have the same goals and desire to help students learn better. In other words, learning can flourish when teachers and parents agree to work together as a team. For example, if you need to communicate factual information , do it via email. Teachers are also responsible for their students’ well being and education.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 25, 2018

A 2018 study conducted by the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) highlights schools in 9 states that have already started to implement interoperable systems with promising results. SETDA gives the example of “Bobby,” a sophomore in high school who transferred to a new school after his first semester.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2017

As Clayton Christensen recently said to me, just as people have taken the phrase “disruptive innovation” to justify whatever they already wanted to do, people are using the phrase personalized learning—and a whole host of other terms—in a similar manner. Peak of Inflated Expectations: Personalized Learning. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 6, 2019

If you ask a dozen educators to define personalized learning, you’ll no doubt get some enthusiastic answers, and all twelve will probably be different. The new-school answer to the definition of personalized learning is markedly different. Lectures are now scheduled events or meet-ups.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This type of learning is a house of cards. To develop mastery , students must acquire foundational skills, practice using them together, and know when to apply what they have learned. Learning is contextual. Generalizing learning to new contexts (what education researchers call transfer) requires facilitation.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2023

But LeBlanc, who was enthusiastic about technology and had worked in edtech, made a bet that was unusual at the time: He decided to grow the university’s online offerings. That growth ended up exploding as the acceptance of online learning grew, then got an unexpected boost from the COVID-19 pandemic. It was changing our technology.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

At first glance, the binders incorporating a whole year of learning at the Parker-Varney elementary school in Manchester look a little like Candy Land, the beloved game of chance where players navigate a colorful route past delicious landmarks to arrive at a Candy Castle. MANCHESTER, N.H. — This story also appeared in The Washington Post.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

Every day at Digital Promise, we work with leading educators, researchers, and developers across the country to help close the Digital Learning Gap and improve learning for all. We hope to share some of these examples at the SXSW and SXSW EDU conferences in March 2018 – but first, we need your help. Can Students Create VR?

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

In recent years, technology has played a significant role in reshaping the landscape of college teaching, and it will surely continue to do so. In this context, educators must be especially mindful that our uses of technology do not undermine meaningful learning. And doing this requires knowledge about technology and teaching.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2016

But what has been left unsaid is how our current system of education works systematically against instilling these skills in students, and how we could naturally embed the development of grit in students—in a way that doesn’t talk explicitly about grit—by moving to a competency-based learning system. If they fail, that’s fine.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

For example, a school board is the only body that can hire or remove a superintendent, yet they depend on the superintendent and his staff to keep them abreast of the district happenings. All of America’s children deserve to love learning and to develop creativity and critical thinking skills, not just rote memorization.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

One of the challenges in trying out new learning strategies, including those that embrace technology, is that schools have a tough time finding out which new methods work best – which ones actually help kids learn. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. based nonprofit organization, for five years.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2018

The new research suggests that far from mastering concepts, students may simply be retaking quizzes on education technology platforms until their score increases, which may actually hurt their overall learning progression. It is normally used to help lagging students build math skills.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2016

And it lacks the enthusiasm—as well as the desire to help kids own and engage in their learning—that defines us as innovative educators. With transformative digital changes happening in classrooms today, basic learning management systems now deliver the answers to most of those well worn questions on parent portals. Absolutely not!

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

These two examples highlight some of the key limitations of today’s “seat-time” centric models for teacher professional development. In contrast, imagine a world where educators may be immediately and widely recognized for specific knowledge, skills, and mindsets that they demonstrate in transparent, competency-based ways.

Digital Badges 120

Digital Badges Education Competency Based Learning Assessment 120

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2019

Many investors, foundations and even private equity firms have started so-called impact investment funds with a mission to support companies involved in teaching and learning. With the learning infrastructure work, for example, we have Credly, our very first investment that is working on digital, competency-based credentials.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2017

“Higher education innovation” is no different, though instead of flying cars and Mars colonies, what likely comes to mind first are online and competency-based learning platforms, learning management systems, or electronic whiteboards. Higher ed innovation is not just technology.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

These two examples highlight some of the key limitations of today’s “seat-time” centric models for teacher professional development. In contrast, imagine a world where educators may be immediately and widely recognized for specific knowledge, skills, and mindsets that they demonstrate in transparent, competency-based ways.

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Digital Badges Competency Based Learning Education Assessment 120

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

The proficiency-based model is closely related to competency-based learning, where students are grouped with those who are closest to their language abilities, regardless of age or seat time. Course scheduling, for example, becomes more complicated with school-wide, mixed-grade language classes.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2016

Earlier this year, the Rhode Island-based Highlander Institute and the Clayton Christensen Institute teamed up to bring together a conference on blended and personalized learning in Providence, R.I. All too often, new approaches to instruction are designed in isolation from the teachers who will be implementing those approaches.

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