Many watching the world of Competency Based Education were again rattled by the most recent news that the Department of Education’s Office of the Inspector General has been auditing Western Governors University for the last three years. The OIG is questioning whether WGU should be downgraded from...
Sometimes Twitter is just too small for big ideas– below is a twitter conversation that sprung up around my recent post Competency vs. Mastery. This post will describe how Knowledge Skills and Attitudes fit into the big picture of assessing student mastery of learning competencies.
Competenc...
https://twitter.com/mjshark/status/598529742711619586
Thanks for asking, Mike. I can’t tell from your tweet whether you’re referring to 70% of outcomes grades in a course, vs. getting 70% of questions within a competency correct, so I’m going to address both conditions.
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...https://twitter.com/PhilOnEdTech/status/597437636907700224
Hi Phil, Thanks for your kind invitation to think this out.
I think we all need to be very explicit about what we mean when we use terms like “competency”, “mastery”, “outcomes”, and “learning objectives”. Either I’m showing my ignor...
“At this time in our history, the most valuable institutions will be those that generate real learning from average or disadvantaged students, not those that generate learning from those students for whom learning is, frankly, easy.”
In response to Kaplan University Begins Offering Personalized Competency Reports to More than 40,000 Students
Kaplan University’s Personalized Competency Reports
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It’s great to see Kapla...
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In response to When Uber and Airbnb Meet the Real World. A friend got me thinking about how Uber and AirBnB insinuate themselves into an existing “meatspace” industry, only to undo worker protections and government regulations in that industry. This got me thinking about ...
The role of the instructor has become ever more complex in the last century as technology, pedagogy, and student expectations have advanced with the times. Today’s teacher is expected to not only be a Subject Matter Expert, but to serve as their own Instructional Designer, provide high‐touch stu...
When we ask “why offer Mozilla Open Badges in education?”, the answer often comes back “to motivate students”. When we ask “how exactly does that work?” – well, uh, it seems people have differing ideas.
I think that many people take it as an article of faith that giving badges will magically mot...