by Kate Kazin | Feb 17, 2021 | Assessment, Backward design, Bloom's Taxonomy, Competency framework, Competency-based Education (CBE), Higher Ed, Instructional Design, K-12
It’s time to retire Bloom’s taxonomy. Originally published in 1956, before personal computers, the internet and smart phones — not to mention a contemporary understanding of the neuroscience of learning — it is not only outmoded, but in fact has never had...
by Kate Kazin | Jan 21, 2021 | Assessment, Backward design, Competency framework, Competency frameworks, Competency-based Education (CBE), Project-based assessment, Reimagining higher education, Teaching to the Test, Uncategorized
We regularly encounter curriculum that is engaging, creative and effective, followed by… a multiple choice quiz. What is there about assessment that seems to be off-limits to re-imagination? One possibility is that assessment is seen as the vegetable, not the...
by Kate Kazin | Jul 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
Transforming Higher Education through CBE In the early, heady days of building College for America (CfA) at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU), we were thrilled to be joining forces with our fellow pioneers in the competency-based education (CBE) movement,...
by Kate Kazin | Jun 29, 2020 | Admin, Backward design, Competency-based Education (CBE), Future of work, Higher Ed Policy, Reimagining higher education, Uncategorized
I cringe a little when I hear the phrase, much bandied about these days: “don’t waste a good crisis.” It seems altogether too crass, too flippant for the painful times we are living in, now defined by the deadly confluence of racism, pandemic, and unemployment. Even...
by Kate Kazin | Apr 18, 2019 | Competency-based Education (CBE), Early Childhood Education, Higher Ed Policy, Uncategorized
At the recent ASU-GSV meeting in San Diego, nearly 5,000 ed-tech innovators convened to discuss opportunities and challenges in education and talent innovation from “pre-K to gray.” (“Gray” was not much in evidence at the conference, but that’s a topic for another...
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