Competency-Based learning refers to systems of instruction, assessment, grading, and academic reporting that are based on students demonstrating that they have learned the knowledge and skills they are expected to learn as they progress through their education. Connections-based Learning focuses on students making meaningful connections with teachers, experts, organizations, community and each other. The development of this approach has been birthed out of a desire to create learning experiences in a connected world with connected students. This resource includes: 1. Meaning of Competency-Based Learning 2. Meaning of Connections-Based Learning 3. How Competencies Support Learning 4. Advantages Competency-Based Learning 5. Parts of Connections-Based Learning 6. Characteristics of Connected Students 7. Ideas for Connecting your Students 8. Resources to Implement CBL

Job-Based Learning is usually taken to mean learning the job-specific skills and knowledge by doing the job. The learning happens in real time and may be indistinguishable from the performance of the work to which it is intended to contribute. This Resource Covers: 1. Meaning of JBL 2. JBL Synonyms 3. CAREERS Acronym 4. JBL Benefits 5. JBL Myths 6. JBL Types 7. JBL Resources

Feedback is vital in just about all learning contexts. How children learn from positive and negative performance feedback lies at the foundation of successful learning and is therefore of great importance for educational practice. This Resource Includes: 1. Meaning of FBL 2. Feedback in Student Learning 3. Feedback Kinds 4. Feedback Attributes 5. Feedback Forms 6. Resources to Implement FBL