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Michael Horn: How Competency-Based Learning Instills Educational Grit
Competency-based, digital learning executed well is tailor made for the purpose of intrinsically motivating all students. This doesn’t mean that all digital learning does this well, but the best blended-learning schools today are great because they reach the students who appeared to be “unmotivated” in the old system.
Blended Learning, Domestic, Education Quality, Graduation Rates, K-12, Minorities, Opinion, Parents, Personalized Learning, Required, Teachers Jan 16, 7:00- Tom Vander Ark: Canvas.net Shifts The MOOC Model Paradigms
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