The “competency learning" movement is gaining serious momentum: See the list of schools and districts that are adopting competency learning. But, based on the research literature in the psychology of ...

This article is part of the collection: Real Life Learning: An Up Close Look at Competency-Based Education. In Thomas County, Georgia, students who have struggled in the mainstream have found a home ...

Tom Rooney sees competency-based education—supported by digital learning tools—as the path to building a better school district. The superintendent of the 4,200-student Lindsay Unified School District ...

Competency-based education could be the key to providing quality, postsecondary education to millions of Americans at a lower cost, writes Louis Soares. Mozilla’s Open Badges Initiative and MITx—the ...

We’re going to need every ounce of ingenuity, imagination, and creativity to confront...problems Sir Ken Robinson The world is changing, and -- as Sir Ken Robinson professes -- we will need every ...

Western Governors University is pioneering a new, fast-growing model of education: Competency-based learning. In traditional classrooms, time is fixed and student learning varies. Schools operate ...

The introduction of innovative pedagogy in today's education landscape has made the one-size-fits-all approach to learning a distant past. Furthermore, Competency-Based Learning (CBL) stands at the ...

Some call for educational innovation. Others make it happen. No educational innovators, I suspect, have had a greater impact than Paul LeBlanc of Southern New Hampshire University or Scott Pulsipher ...

Faculty members tend to be skeptical about attempts to go beyond grading with standardized definitions and measures of what students should learn -- the so-called student learning outcomes accreditors ...

Twenty-year-old Asmaa is an example of how constant change and upheaval were hallmarks of the previous school year. A student of mine in an accelerated program for new arrivals to the U.S., in just ...