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Competency-based learning or competency-based education and training is an approach to teaching and learning more often used in learning concrete skills than abstract learning.
Competency-based learning is learner‑focused and works naturally with independent study and with the instructor in the role of facilitator. Learners often find different individual skills more difficult than others. This learning method allows a student to learn those individual skills they find challenging at their own pace, practising and refining as much as they like. Then, they can move rapidly through other skills to which they are more adept.
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originally posted by: toysforadults
What is competency based education?
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originally posted by: dfnj2015
a reply to: toysforadults
The work needs to be challenging enough so students don't get bored. But not too challenging so they do not become discouraged. The Goldilocks point is different for each student. And each students Goldilocks changes over time. We need adaptive AI learning systems to maximize education rates.
originally posted by: murphy22
a reply to: dfnj2015
Nope! It ain't even as dumb as you make it sound. There is a right and a wrong. A right way to do things and a wrong way. There's "education" and experience. There's "knowledge" and knowing. Knowledge and wisdom. Not the same! Competency only comes from "doing". That's why the "Highly Educated Doctors" have "internships". So them "educated" boys/girls don't just read them "trouble shooting manuals" and do stupid sh**!
originally posted by: madmac5150
Today's universities do not educate.
They indoctrinate.
Totally incompetent, no matter how they label it...
originally posted by: dfnj2015
We are talking about methods of learning. If you can't see the truth in my post then you are not listening to what people do when they are learning.
I found from personal experience when I listened or read about something I knew it at one level. When I wrote about it my level of understanding was much better. But what I found that gave me the most insight and the deepest understanding of any topic was teaching it.
How about you? What is your best method for learning?
originally posted by: dfnj2015
This is simply not true. People get out of the college experience exactly what they put into it. Professors don't care if you even attend class. It's your tuition money. It's your responsibility to get good education.
I think the problem we have today is too many people are so busy labeling each other all we have is division in this country. At some point there will be a reckoning for the labeling madness. I imagine as wealth inequality continues to expand at some point people will start rioting much more than they do now.
originally posted by: toysforadults
So there is only one way to learn and if people don't learn that way they are losers or burnouts??
I happen to excel in the competency based training and in the IT world the competency based educations come with the important certifications for specialization that employers find very valuable to prove your competency.