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Western Governors University has used a competency-based model of education since it was chartered in 1996. [15] The Mastery Transcript Consortium is a group of public and private secondary schools which are working to utilize competency-based learning as part of their effort to create a new type of secondary school transcript. [16]
Technological literacy (Technology Literacy) is the ability to use, manage, understand, and assess technology. [1] Technological literacy is related to digital literacy in that when an individual is proficient in using computers and other digital devices to access the Internet, digital literacy gives them the ability to use the Internet to discover, review, evaluate, create, and use ...
The motivation for mastery learning comes from trying to reduce achievement gaps for students in average school classrooms. During the 1960s John B. Carroll and Benjamin S. Bloom pointed out that, if students are normally distributed with respect to aptitude for a subject and if they are provided uniform instruction (in terms of quality and learning time), then achievement level at completion ...
The primary difference between free software and open source is one of philosophy. According to the Free Software Foundation, "Nearly all open source software is free software. The two terms describe almost the same category of software, but they stand for views based on fundamentally different values." [43]
Cartopedia: The Ultimate World Reference Atlas; Celestia; Google Earth - (proprietary license); Gravit - a free (GPL) Newtonian gravity simulator; KGeography; KStars; NASA World Wind - free software (NASA open source)
In an unfamiliar new domain, students attend to features of the situation that can be noticed without prior experience, what the Skill Model calls "context-free features." Think of the read-outs on the speedometer, tachometer and other gauges in an automobile, or of the objective measurements of ingredients and cooking times in a recipe.
A woman’s lotto dreams came true — but also caused some issues with her boyfriend. The woman, 25, posted to Reddit anonymously to ask for advice about her recent victory. She wrote, “I ...
The Sakai software includes many of the features common to course management systems, including document distribution, a gradebook, discussion, live chat, assignment uploads, and online testing. In addition to the course management features, Sakai is intended as a collaborative tool for research and group projects.