WGU, Competency Based Education, and Substantive Interaction
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...
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March 24, 2023
What’s Different Between the Life of a Classroom Teacher vs. Instructional Designer?
How is the day-to-day life of an Instructional Designer different than that of a K12 classroom teacher? Many classroom teachers are looking to make...
February 10, 2023
The “Attention Method” for Effective Presentation Decks – Updated
This is an update to my previous post, The “Attention Method” for Effective PowerPoint Presentations. My Attention Method™ of presentation design is a philosophy...
August 24, 2022
Microlearning is not a Platform, it’s a Design Choice
One frequent buzzword you’ll hear a lot in the eLearning world is “microlearning”. More often than not, it’s pushed by companies trying to sell...
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Knowledge Skills and Attitudes
Sometimes Twitter is just too small for big ideas– below is a twitter conversation that sprung up around my recent post Competency vs. Mastery....
Defining Success in a CBE Program
.@PhilOnEdTech @tedcurran Another challenge – what do you do with a learner who only masters 70% of outcomes? Today, we rely on pass/fail —...
Competency vs. Mastery
@tedcurran having trouble commenting on great post; what is your take on mastery v competency per https://t.co/jCgIbZSoVj ? #blogrequest — Phil Hill (@PhilOnEdTech) May...
Towards a High-Touch Competency Based Education Model
“At this time in our history, the most valuable institutions will be those that generate real learning from average or disadvantaged students, not those...
Proficiency vs. Mastery: Recognizing Growth and Excellence in CBE
In response to Kaplan University Begins Offering Personalized Competency Reports to More than 40,000 Students Kaplan University’s Personalized Competency Reports http://mms.businesswire.com/media/20150505005116/en/466003/5/CRExample_5_5_15_Page_1-%281%29.jpg?download=1 It’s great to...
Disrupting Education: Cost or Quality?
Embed from Getty Images In response to When Uber and Airbnb Meet the Real World. A friend got me thinking about how Uber and...
The Changing Role of Faculty: From Traditional Ed to Competency Based Education
The role of the instructor has become ever more complex in the last century as technology, pedagogy, and student expectations have advanced with the...
How Open Badges Can Promote Student Motivation
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...
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