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Confessions of a Community College Dean. When Michael Dukakis ran for President, his slogan of “competence, not ideology” didn’t exactly stir the blood.
But I saw competency stir the blood of some smart people on Monday, and it gave me hope. NEBHE - the New England Board of Higher Education - hosted a conference in Boston on Competency-Based Education, and it was one of the best I’ve attended in years. Competency-Based Education doesn’t have a standard definition yet -- which several speakers noted over the course of the day -- but it generally refers to programs in which student learning is measured in accomplishments, rather than time. The idea is to invert the credit hour. Under a credit hour system, time on task is fixed, and learning is variable. CBE has existed in various guises for decades, but has hit its stride only in the last few years. Perusall. This new tool makes the flipped classroom more social. Flipping your class by having students watch lecture videos for their homework can lead to richer discussions about the content, but only if students come to class prepared.
And having them watch a video lecture at home “simply takes a technique that didn’t work in person and puts in online,” said Harvard University physics professor Eric Mazur. During the 2016 Building Learning Communities (BLC) conference organized by education thought leader Alan November, Mazur unveiled a free tool that he and a team of colleagues developed to solve this problem. Called Perusall, it’s a social learning platform that will “essentially make sure every student is prepared for class,” Mazur said. It also makes sure teachers are prepared to address students’ key questions and areas of confusion—without creating more work for the instructor.
Mazur spent the first part of his opening keynote recalling how he realized long ago that teaching must be more than simply transferring knowledge. The unique internet search site your students don't know about. The Wayback Machine is a reference tool for the internet Age as basic as a dictionary.
When was the last time you saw a student use it? When I’m giving a talk to students about being responsible digital citizens, I’ll tell them, “You know, some day you might apply to college, or run for Congress—and you might regret something you posted online when you were young.” And there’s always one student who will say to me, “Mr. November, we’re not that stupid—we’re going to take those things off the web before we apply to college.”