Hey, Princeton: Consider Competencies
This post was first published on the Next Gen Learning blog. With A’s doled out in almost half of all undergraduate courses—compared to only […]
This post was first published on the Next Gen Learning blog. With A’s doled out in almost half of all undergraduate courses—compared to only […]
Sept 3, 2014
Last week, FSG Consulting’s Matt Wilka and Jeff Cohen released a case study, “Self-Directed Learning at Summit Public Schools,” as part of a Bill & […]
Sept 3, 2014
In the education sector, we love standards. We have academic standards like the Common Core that define what students need to know as they progress […]
Aug 27, 2014
For those adults working on, writing about, or generally pondering the fate of our education system, “teachers” are thought of as a stakeholder group, a […]
Aug 19, 2014
Michelle R. Weise discusses how online competency-based education programs are best poised to offer modularized curricula that can be tailored to different industries. Modularization of […]
Aug 19, 2014
Last week, the Fordham Institute’s new president, Mike Petrilli, wrote a thought-provoking opinion piece on how different strands of education reform are often incongruent with […]
Aug 15, 2014
Meg Evans, a former research assistant at the Clayton Christensen Institute and now the social innovation manager at Udemy, and I coauthored this piece. In […]
Aug 14, 2014
A few research pitfalls seem to be creeping into the still nascent world of K-12 competency-based education: first, the challenge of moving from discussing high-level […]
Aug 13, 2014