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Competency based education focuses on a model aimed at allowing students to make progress ONLY when they demonstrate a desired competency or skill.
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http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Competency
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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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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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If you drop out of college or choose not to attend, it doesn't necessarily mean you don't have a bright future. With creativity, innovation, hard work and dedication, you may still become the next big name in business, the arts, or politics.
Gust MEES: it's not ONLY diplomas, but COMPETENCY ALSO who matters...
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The ‘model’ for higher education not only has to change, but will change, it’s inevitable. And, online learning won’t be the catalyst, but competency based learning will be ...
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There's a movement brewing to change the way colleges and universities award degrees from the credit-hour to a model that asks students to prove what they've learned, no matter how long it takes.
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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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“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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The most important characteristic of competency-based education is that it measures learning rather than time. Students progress by demonstrating their competence, which means they prove that they have mastered the knowledge.
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