Competency-based education flips the relationship and says let time be variable, but make learning well-defined, fixed and non-negotiable. In our CfA program, there are no courses. There are 120 ...

Enter competency-based learning (CBE), a term introduced in the 1970s when the U.S. Department of Education issued grants to support CBE programs, focused on helping adult learners, ... Yet there are ...

Competency-based education programs grant credentials (diplomas, degrees, and certificates) based on what a student knows. Student learning is measured in multiple ways that are not dependent on ...

By 2015, President Obama asked LeBlanc to act as an adviser under the Secretary of Education’s office on the role of competency-based education in higher education. Meanwhile, SNHU’s enrollment ...

By Zuck’s definition, much of higher education could use a good hacking. Competency-based education (CBE) is one such effort, and an important one.

Freed of the credit-hour constraint, competency-based programs need to be a lot more rigorous and transparent about designing assessments. Otherwise, they risk turning into diploma mills.

Competency-based approaches to education, focused on demonstrated, marketable skills, have increased in popularity as an innovative method of ensuring that graduates are well prepared for the job ...

Competency-based education gained traction in 2000, when some states, including New Hampshire and Rhode Island, changed high school graduation requirements to include a mix of traditional and ...

Competency-based education, or CBE, is becoming more common in higher education and is present at more than 1,000 university programs, according to a 2020 survey report from the American Institute ...

It may sound simple, but to meet the vision of competency-based education we need to think differently about almost every aspect of our education system. At the Competency-Based Learning Summit, ...

The traditional approach to formal education ties students to classrooms. Degrees are earned based on accumulated credits, a system developed in 1906 as an attempt to measure how much time a ...