The Office of Community Based Learning supports faculty efforts to effectively integrate service-learning, community-based research, and class-community exchanges into their courses in order to ...

What is Place-based Learning? Place-based learning is an instructional approach that focuses on developing student’s sense of place and learning through exploring their environment. Thus, most ...

As we begin redesigning our programs and courses for a semester-based academic schedule, many of us are taking this (rare) opportunity to reflect on our current offerings and to experiment with fresh ...

School districts in every state now have the green light to establish competency-based education programs and models in their classrooms—but they have a lot of work to do on the operational side to ...

When I look back on my most memorable learning experiences, they are times my teachers connected to my humanity and my world. I remember my English teacher pausing scheduled lessons to ask us to ...

Does the city you grew up in look the same as it did a decade ago? Cities are rapidly growing, some for the better, and some not so much. Take the following: gentrification, job loss, housing pressure ...

Millions of people across the U.S. lack reliable access to affordable, nutritious food — including about one in six families in Philadelphia. Food and Land Security in Philadelphia, an intensive ...

Corrected: This story has been updated to correct the number of districts participating in Washington state’s Mastery-Based Learning Collaborative. Every state now allows schools to embrace competency ...

Community-centered learning has become a natural answer to these concerns. When education is rooted locally, families are able to support one another, share responsibility, and reduce the isolation ...

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State and regional associations can help build colleges' capacity for work-based learning, including internships, apprenticeships, and project-based capstones. Creating hands-on, work-based learning ...

Ankabut, the UAE’s advanced technology provider for the education and research community, has announced the signing of a strategic partnership with WeVideo, a leading global cloud-based video learning ...