Topics include looking at the iNACOL
Blended Learning Competencies for Teachers, supporting students in their new role as 21st - century learners and engaging with stakeholders to build community.
Not exact matches
In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that
blends adaptive online
learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a
competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a
blended -
learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.
Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate
blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based
learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in
blended -
learning models to launch a
competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.
iNACOL's annual conference is the industry's leading event for K - 12 online,
blended and
competency - based
learning.
At least one
blended -
learning school, Summit Public Schools, is partnering to build its own solution to the problem and use content from different sources to support the new
competency - based
learning model it is developing, which seems like a smart backward integration.
It can limit new models of
learning — like online,
blended or
competency - based education through geographic or enrollment caps, or by restricting the use of funds to purchase digital content; or it can support them by building a strong, sustainable and accountable framework.
In a piece for Quartz this past week, I addressed how moving to a
blended learning,
competency - based education system in which students advance based on mastery, not time, could address many of the concerns by better preparing citizens for the demands ahead.
And in so doing, it could do more than just solve the problem of equity to high - quality educational opportunities in the state, it also creates a mechanism for
competency - based
learning, establishes a strong grounding for what online
learning and
blended learning are, and eliminates the outmoded geographic barriers that prevent students from being able to access high - quality
learning opportunities no matter where they originate in the state.
The school is pushing the bounds of
blended learning with a Flex model that is
competency - based.
Blended learning offers an unprecedented opportunity to create a student - centered education system at scale — one that personalizes
learning for each student in a
competency - based environment where students move on in their
learning upon mastery.
Montgomery County Public Schools» plan includes enhanced online -
learning opportunities within the Pathways for Learning that can take advantage of advances in blended learning to support competency - based progr
learning opportunities within the Pathways for
Learning that can take advantage of advances in blended learning to support competency - based progr
Learning that can take advantage of advances in
blended learning to support competency - based progr
learning to support
competency - based progressions.
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Summit is using a complex
competency - based model of
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Our LMS helped Hyundai achieve its corporate strategy of promoting
blended learning courses, assessments and online training to improve staff performance,
competencies and ultimately increase staff retention.
His expertise is in disruptive innovation, online
learning,
blended learning,
competency - based
learning, and student - centered education systems.
Various groups are championing
learning that is
blended, personalized, universally designed, student - centered, deeper, individualized,
competency - based and data - driven.
You may recognize some of the strategies that make this kind of
learning possible:
competency - based
learning, project - based
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Yet it is an interesting hybrid of both existing models: it combines the governance reforms of the RSD and ASD with a big push for
competency - based,
blended learning.
Combinations of practice may also prove important categories: looking ahead, much as our
blended -
learning taxonomy work has aimed to do, the field might try to formulate a taxonomy that describes the universe of practices in
competency - based schools, and from those, extrapolates common combinations of practices or «models.»
But
blended learning,
competency - based education, and personalized
learning tend to catalyze schools to reconsider the role of the teacher and to often wrestle with top - down versus bottom - up approaches.
This article is adapted from two reports authored by Freeland and published by the institute in 2014: «From policy to practice: How
competency - based education is evolving in New Hampshire» and «
Blending toward
competency: Early patterns of
blended learning and
competency - based education in New Hampshire.»
The next paper will analyze the role of
blended learning in a subset of these schools to better understand which
blended learning models appear best suited to supporting
competency - based education.
An instructional cocktail for low - achieving students that mixes
competency - based,
blended, and student - centered
learning is tricky — and doesn't work for all students.
For Backler and his team,
competency - based education undergirds the flexible pacing that is inherent in their particular
blended -
learning model.
Advocates» calls for
competency - based education are growing louder, particularly as online and
blended learning unlock new opportunities for students to move through material at their own pace.
Allowing for student voice and choice and providing opportunities for flexible, authentic, student - centered,
competency - based
learning is what sets personalized
learning apart from
blended learning.
He has presented for the following organizations: Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy, «Preparing Teachers for Diverse America»; Mid-Atlantic Conference on Personalized
Learning, «
Competency - Based Schooling for ELLs»; INACOL
Blended and Online
Learning Symposium, «Lessons from New
Competency - Based High Schools: Leaders Reflect on Design and Launch.»
If done well,
blended learning can help all kinds of students — including slow learners — get up to speed, while boosting the ability of those who
learn more quickly to master
competencies and move ahead.
Nellie Mae has been the primary force pushing
blended / online
learning and
competency based education throughout New England.
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Most regional sites provide significant content and skill building in next gen academic models, which integrate
blended,
competency - based, and personalized
learning to different extents.
Teacher
competencies for learner - centered teaching,
blended learning, and deeper
learning are good examples, and yet there are still relatively few comprehensive supply - side offerings.
The «very best turnaround design» combines the very best of what teachers can do with the very best that technology can offer in
competency - based
blended learning.
Other features that were attractive to the university included Brightspace's mobile - friendly user experience, which enables students to engage in online,
blended and
competency - based
learning programmes on a single platform.
The mission of the International Association for K — 12 Online
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The schools we'll be visiting each reflect next gen
learning: different approaches to personalized,
competency - based,
blended, tech - enabled, or experiential
learning, designed around richer / deeper definitions of student success.
VLACS, a virtual school serving students across New Hampshire in grades 5 - 12, is developing a 100 percent self - paced,
competency - based
learning model framed not around courses but around a map of required
competencies that students may master through any number of possible
learning opportunities.In the VLACS Aspire «experiential
blended learning» model,
learning experiences in real - world, community - based settings serve as the face - to - face component in addition to traditional classroom - based
learning that is integrated with online
learning opportunities.
This new approach will utilize
blended learning to deploy
competency - based strategies, allowing students to progress through subjects at their own pace.
These 6 — 8 week cycles focused on improving a particular student skill /
competency, during which the teacher chose a
blended -
learning instructional model along with a set of digital
learning tools / resources.
Single Seed School is a proposed public charter school that offers
competency - based education through a
blended learning approach.
By now, almost anyone interested in solving this problem has heard about «personalized
learning,» often lumped in with other promising education buzzwords: «
blended,» «
competency - based,» etc..
Partnerships: The Planning Grant winners include organizations with deep experience in school reform — such as BattelleEd (OH), Building 21 (PA), Internationals Network for Public Schools (NY), and New Tech Network (FL)-- that are joining in «Breakthrough School Developer Partnerships» with districts or charters to incorporate breakthrough personalized,
competency - based, and
blended learning approaches into their existing academic models.
iNACOL's annual conference is the industry's leading event for K - 12
competency - based,
blended and online
learning.
At Piedmont Middle School, the future for students is changing through relevant, engaging
learning opportunities, a school culture filled with hope, and a redesigned teaching and
learning environment that utilizes
blended learning, project - based
learning, and
competency - based
learning to personalize education.
This organization works to improve student access to personalized, mastery - based educational opportunities through quality online,
blended, and
competency learning programs.
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In addition, if you have a
blended learning model, time becomes less of an obstacle, and the focus is more on
competency.
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