Resources

• Student-Centered Learning: Functional Requirements for Integrated Systems to Optimize Learning, iNACOL (2016)
• Re-Engineering Information Technology: Design Considerations for Competency Education, a CompetencyWorks Issue Brief, webinar and resource page provides an overview and glossary.  
• 2 Revolutions and CCSSCO has created a Roadmap for Competency-based Systems : Leveraging Next Generation Technologies that includes a glossary. 

Examples of Products to Monitor Student Learning

There are lots of different types of information management tools that can help students, teachers, schools and districts to navigate competency-based systems.  Here are a few of the different products that are trying to solve some of the issues schools face or support new functions and techniques in competency-based schools. Remember these product are not comparable -- they do not have the same functionality.

• Summit's platform has been developed to be able to be used by schools not using their specific model
• Empower - used by Lindsay Unified High School.
• Slate - Building 21 and Matchbook Learning under the name Spark (see article 8/15) 
• Project Foundry (Often used by project-based learning schools)
• Motivis Learning
• Mastery Connect
• Desire2Learn
• Digication (Now part of Google Apps for Schools)
• Motivis
• Pathbrite
• TaskStream
• Three Ring
• Fishtree  https://fishtree.com<https://fishtree.com/>
• Haiku 
• Fronter (Pearson)
• JumpRope - software to support grading
• Buzz by Agilix

Blogs

• Technology Tools Lag Our Competency-based Aspirations - Julia Freeland
• The Magic Ingredient: Information Management Systems - Chris Sturgis
• Engagement and Employability Driving Next Gen Platforms - T. Vander Ark, Ed Week, 2013
• What's the Buzz about Buzz - Chris Sturgis
• WGU Paves the Way with Competency-Oriented System Architecture - Heather Staker
• CBE Student Information Systems, What Do We Want Them To Do? - Josh Griffith
• Student Learning Objectives: Insights into Using Competencies as a Growth Model - Chris Sturgis
• Light at the End of the Tunnel - Chris Sturgis 
• From Policy to Practice in New Hampshire - Julia Freeland
• Finding Your Way With a Roadmap - Chris Sturgis
• Schools and Software: What’s Now and What’s Next - Alex Hernandez 
• Re-Imagining School Info - Chris Sturgis
• Data Integration? More Like Data Cooperation - Julia Freeland
• When Schools Create their Own EdTech Tools - Ed Surge