Tools of the Trade: Engaging the Online Learner
iNACOL’s 2010 National Online Teacher of the Year presents strategies to engage students in online classrooms. How…
OER – What are they and how can you use them in your classroom?
How can teachers best utilize Open Educational Resources (OER)? This Teacher Talk webinar describes ways in which…
Competency Works: The Learning Edge: Supporting Success in a Competency-Based Learning Environment
Learning in a competency-based environment means pushing students and adults to the edge of their comfort zone…
The State of the Field, 2019
The following is an excerpted transcript of the State of the Field address, delivered on October 28th...
The Challenges of a Large, Diverse School District and the Promises of Performance Assessment Micro-credentials
This post originally appeared at the Center for Collaborative Education on November 13, 2019. In our large,…
But What About The Test?
This post originally appeared at the Mastery Collaborative on June 11, 2019. How can high-stakes testing “live”…
CompetencyWorks Releases Report Updating Definition of Competency-Based Education
Today, the CompetencyWorks initiative of the Aurora Institute (formerly iNACOL) released What Is Competency-Based Education? An Updated…
Eliot Levine Shares News on the Definition of Competency-Based Education in the Latest Innovation Spotlight Podcast
It’s been eight years since the field developed its working definition of competency-based education. This week,…
Student Thinking Made Visible: Assessing Transferable Skills with Brief Performance Tasks
Competency-based education emphasizes learning not only academic knowledge but also skills and dispositions. These include transferable learning…
What Is Competency-Based Education? An Updated Definition
This report updates the field’s 2011 working definition of competency-based education, which helped to build the field…