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Competency-Based Education Approaches in K-12 Schools, Part One
Competency-based education (CBE) isn’t just gaining ground in higher ed: a number of K-12 educators from across the country are now embracing the approach—with promising results. In this first post of a two-part series, you’ll learn how…
Read More »How Open Badges scaffold a better learning design and improve ePortfolio management
Presentation by Dominique-Alain Jan (Lausanne University of Teacher Education, CH) at Mahara Hui in Auckland, New Zealand, on 9 April 2015. Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.youtube.com See on Scoop.it – 21st Century Assessment How Open Badges scaffold a…
Read More »The Evolution of SmartEvidence in Mahara
The last code update (15.01) I applied to my Mahara eportfolio site (folioz.ca) I noticed a new annotation block and wondered what the function was. It seemed devoid of a context and duplicated the function of the feedback block,…
Read More »Ten tips for safe and effective learning analytics
A Google search for ‘improving student experience’ brings up around 30,000 hits. When I did one recently, the front page showed items in scholarly journals and national news media, on Jisc’s own website and on those of several…
Read More »Exploring the “E” in ePortfolio
In graduate school, I serendipitously learned about ePortfolios and everything came unstuck. I realized that ePortfolios – if designed and implemented in an intentional, integrative way – could be the glue I was imagining. I also started to…
Read More »Implementing Competency Education in K-12 Systems: Insights from Local Leaders
Today, CompetencyWorks released Implementing Competency Education in K-12 Systems: Insights from Local Leaders. It is a comprehensive look at how districts across the country from Alaska to Maine have been transforming their districts from the time-based system to…
Read More »Step By Step, the Journey Towards Freedom From Grade Levels
While the competency-base system measures learning and progression very differently from traditional models based on time, classrooms at Sanborn don’t look as different as one might think. A lot of instruction is project-based because teachers are no longer…
Read More »First I Discovered Fire and then I Discovered ePortfolios
One important aspect of eportfolio that is often overlooked and rarely used well is showing change over time. An eportfolio can produce a website to showcase work, but it can also show the changes behind the work. Sometimes,…
Read More »Are Digital Badges a New Measurement of Mastery?
Across the globe, higher ed institutions and professional organizations are harnessing the power of digital badges to motivate, demonstrate, and validate learning and development (L&D). Digital badges are currently in use at postsecondary institutions such as MIT and…
Read More »Learning Analytics: The good, the bad, or perhaps ugly?
[slideshare id=48053333&doc=larientiesdublin11052015a-150512150537-lva1-app6892] Learning analytics provide institutions with opportunities to support student progression and to enable personalised, rich learning. With the increased availability of large datasets, powerful analytics engines, and skilfully designed visualisations of analytics results, institutions may be…
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