Unfortunately, for both students and the employers who would hire them, the increasing difficulty in securing the work experience necessary to demonstrate competency sans degree favors the less-rigorous test it and forget it model of competency-based learning.
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The owner of Baltimore-based It Works Learning Center, trainer of nursing assistants, Lapides is also the head of sales, operations and recruiting.
This may make sense as a way to judge a state (although there may be legitimate questions if it makes sense when moving to a competency-based learning system and away from one based on time), but it creates some problems for judging schools to where students are transferring in the midst of their high school experience.
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It seems likely that game-based learning will no longer be a novelty, but rather a normal part of the school experience in the coming decade.
Almost all thought it likely that online and technology-based learning would increase.
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At least one blended-learning school, Summit Public Schools, is partnering to build its own solution to the problem and use content from different sources to support the new competency-based learning model it is developing, which seems like a smart backward integration.
We can do it through adaptive, mobile, game-based learning.
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Image-based learning appears to destroy reason when it goes unsupplemented by text and numbers.
The medical recommendations it creates based on a learning process of digesting case histories from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), Cleveland Clinic, and other institutions can only be as good as the data that are input and the decision-making processes it is charged to recreate.
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Autonomics are based on self-learning principles and mimic the work of human IT engineers.
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Although we have a few models that have been able to personalize learning and do a better job of instituting mastery-based learning for students, no one has figured out how to do it at scale per se yet, and there is still plenty of room for growth in student outcomes.
It aims to get 90% of 17-year-olds to remain in education or work-based learning by 2015.
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Evernote, on the other hand, is deliberately open-ended, and it's the company itself that's now learning how to evolve based on direct feedback.
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