Common Core for higher education?
If you're not familiar, Common Core State Standards (CCSS) is "a set of high-quality academic standards in mathematics and English Language Arts/literacy (ELA)," says the CCSS Initiative, with…
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5 must-haves for online assessments
As K-12 schools and higher education institutions across the country begin to implement online learning, issues of low retention rates and lack of credibility are some of the…
Competency-based learning proving popular
At a January conference in Washington, D.C., two representatives from Western Governors University claimed that the institution had transitioned from an experiment in competency-based learning to a “proof…