Can technology cultivate social capital?
When we talk about the disruptive potential of online learning, we usually describe new approaches to delivering academic content tailored to students’ individual interests and […]
When we talk about the disruptive potential of online learning, we usually describe new approaches to delivering academic content tailored to students’ individual interests and […]
Dec 4, 2013
Personalized-learning models powered by technology posted more promising gains in the 2012-13 school year, according to a newly released Columbia Teachers College study on the first-year impact […]
Nov 21, 2013
Last week I wrote about structural barriers inhibiting competency-based education from taking off, even when policy shifts away from seat-time requirements to welcome innovation. In […]
Nov 13, 2013
By Katherine Mackey This case study looks at the impact of EdTech Leaders Online’s training and support in West Virginia's implementation of the e-Learning for Educators program, a federally-funded, five-year initiati...
Oct 27, 2013
Howard Gardner and Katie Davis’ new book, The App Generation: How Today’s Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World (Yale University Press), […]
Oct 23, 2013
The emergence of online learning is transforming education by allowing us to personalize learning in ways that were impossible in the past. Because these technologies—and […]
Oct 17, 2013
In New Hampshire—the only state thus far to eliminate the Carnegie Unit and mandate competency-based education statewide—high schools are embracing competency recovery. Competency recovery is, […]
Oct 9, 2013
Disruptive innovations often take hold in areas of nonconsumption—situations in which the alternative to using a new method or product is nothing at all. Although […]
Sept 25, 2013
At the Clayton Christensen Institute, we often talk about blended learning and competency-based education in the same breath. That’s because we see both as necessary […]
Sept 18, 2013
In the mid-1990s, the Internet became the next big thing in telecommunications. To ensure that students would be able to participate in the emerging digital […]
Sept 9, 2013