Students are looking for learning-life balance, and technology tools can make it easier for colleges and universities to help them achieve it. The way students learn has fundamentally changed.
The Aurora Institute, a national nonprofit that focuses its efforts on policy change and innovation within the education space, has made it clear it supports a slew of policy changes to better K-12 ...
There’s no tongue in Fred Bramante’s cheek when he calls himself the father of the competency-based learning movement. “I want to destabilize the 20th-century system,” he said. “I want to disrupt it.
At the Parker-Varney school in Manchester, grades are not part of the curriculum. “Mastery” is. Students work their way through individual concepts, like long division or the mathematical order of ...
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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. At the core of WGU’s approach is Competency-Based Education, which WGU developed in consultation with subject experts and industry ...
In his Sept. 14 piece, “The Danger With Giving Students Feedback,” Alfie Kohn cites a 2020 Duke study which found that the traditional practice of grading can damage student motivation and performance ...
Three years ago, the California Area school district in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny Mountains, gave students the chance to opt into a very different kind of K-12 experience. These students—about 75 of ...
A recent study suggests that although there is growing interest in skills- and competency-based learning, few colleges and universities have actually implemented the new model. The report, released ...