Learning Beyond The Curriculum. Learning Beyond The Curriculum by Stewart Hase and Chris Kenyon Ed note: This is part 2 in a series on self-determined learning from Stewart Hase and Chris Kenyon. Stewart’s site, Heutagogy Community of Practice, is a useful resource for reading on Self-Determined Learning. The first post was Shifting From Pedagogy to Heutagogy In Education. The science of learning, discovering how people learn, as opposed to the philosophy of learning and education that goes back to Egyptian times, can be sheeted back to around the tenth-century. However, it is only recently that advances in neuroscience and the capacity to investigate the functioning of the brain have really enabled us to see what happens when we learn.
Commonly used definitions of learning have failed to keep pace with these advances in neuroscience and appear to be rather outmoded (Hase, 2010). It’s important to establish at this point that we are not attempting a neurological reductionist explanation of learning. Examples Of Innovation In Higher Ed--With A Caution.
Examples Of Innovation In Higher Ed–With A Caution by Terry Heick Recently, someone asked me what I thought about innovation in higher ed in an email, so I responded with a couple of hundred words, which I’ve added to in creating this short blog post. I thought I’d share it because I haven’t talked much about higher ed, but for better or for worse, it is a big part of what we do in K12. I don’t follow higher education very closely, so this is all from 10 feet away. 4 General Examples Of Innovation In Higher Ed 1. “Schools don’t graduate employees, they graduate human beings. Competency-Based Education isn’t necessarily an innovation, but a move to Competency-Based Education can lead to other innovations–using technology to personalize a student’s navigation of to-be-mastered content, for example. Competency-Based Education, at least in terms of the learning process (as opposed to content), should be more student-centered and efficient. 2. 3.
Defining Innovation in Higher Ed A. B. C. D. E. Competency-based Education (CBE) | EDUCAUSE.edu. Competency-Based Education: A Framework for Measuring Quality Courses, Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, Spring 2015. The authors state the purpose of this paper is to provide background and research for a proposed rubric to measure quality in competency-based online courses. Got Skills? Why Online Competency-Based Education Is the Disruptive Innovation for Higher Education, EDUCAUSE Review Online, November 10, 2014. Online competency-based education can even out the playing field by taking students to the furthest point possible in their learning experiences, regardless of their starting point, race, geographical location, or family income.
Beyond the MOOC Model: Changing Educational Paradigms, EDUCAUSE Review Online, November 10, 2014. Flexible Option: A Direct-Assessment Competency-Based Education Model, EDUCAUSE Review Online, November 10, 2014. 7 Things You Should Know About CBE Tools, ELI 7 Things You Should Know. K-12 CBE Resources. Teachthought. Preparing Students For A Modern Economy. Preparing Students For A Modern Economy by Terry Heick Doing some reading (and listening) on competency-based education recently, I was both intrigued and concerned. The concern came recently after listening to a higher ed chancellor celebrate the source of his university’s curriculum.
It was during a panel discussion on Competency Based Learning, where he explained the research for the prioritized competencies began with “federal skills databases.” This sounds innocent enough. It’s difficult to argue against precise curriculum that produces graduates that can better support themselves in a modern economy. The Characteristics Of Competency-Based Education Competency-based education is individualized–or should be. Deb Everhart at Blackboard explains. “The pressure to make higher education more accessible and affordable also comes at a time when there is a huge mismatch between what employers need and what traditional education is providing. And it’s not just a difference of opinion. Preparing Students For A Modern Economy.