competency-based education Archives - Higher Education Today https://www.higheredtoday.org/topic/competency-based-education/ A Blog by ACE Fri, 23 Feb 2024 16:00:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.higheredtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/apple-touch-icon-150x150.png competency-based education Archives - Higher Education Today https://www.higheredtoday.org/topic/competency-based-education/ 32 32 Higher Education Will Be Forced to Do This Recession Differently, and That’s a Good Thing https://www.higheredtoday.org/2020/05/04/higher-education-will-forced-recession-differently-thats-good-thing/ Mon, 04 May 2020 18:19:18 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=16619 By Louis Soares and Burck Smith You know the familiar logic: Higher education is countercyclical. When everything else is contracting, colleges and universities are booming as Americans who would otherwise be working head to college. What is not as universally acknowledged is that while more students show up, not enough make it through. In the last recession, outcomes dipped, especially for ...

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]]> “Learning by Doing” Through Apprenticeships and Flexible Completion Pathways https://www.higheredtoday.org/2018/08/02/learning-apprenticeships-flexible-completion-pathways/ Thu, 02 Aug 2018 18:25:43 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=13446 By Louis Soares and Steven Taylor A competitive workforce and an innovative economy have always depended on a mix of formal postsecondary education and “learning by doing” in the workplace. The interchange of these two forms of learning builds skills and leads to discoveries that transform technologies, products, organizational processes, and markets. At certain times in economic history this mix has ...

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]]> Second-Wave Competency-Based Education: A Focus on Quality https://www.higheredtoday.org/2017/09/25/second-wave-competency-based-education-focus-quality/ Mon, 25 Sep 2017 08:30:54 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=10681 The second CBE wave—more grounded and focused on quality than the first—is underway, and resources to support development of high-quality programs include the University of Wisconsin Flexible Option case study. Fear of being left behind in the chalk dust triggered the first wave of interest in competency-based education—or CBE—in the early 2000s. In 2012, that wave overlapped with a spike in ...

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]]> ACE at 100: Lifting Nontraditional Learners to Postsecondary Success https://www.higheredtoday.org/2017/05/26/ace-100-lifting-nontraditional-learners-postsecondary-success/ Fri, 26 May 2017 16:39:15 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=9630 By Jon Riskind As ACE prepares to celebrate its centennial in 2018, this is the first in an occasional series of posts that will look at how ACE initiatives have left an impression on the higher education landscape and impacted peoples’ lives. Pictured above: 2014 Student of the Year Jeffrey Gearhart with ACE President Molly Corbett Broad.  Tara Turley, a single ...

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]]> Changing the Game for Women in East Africa https://www.higheredtoday.org/2017/03/08/changing-game-women-east-africa/ Wed, 08 Mar 2017 17:25:33 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=8132 In honor of International Women’s Day, CIGE’s Heather Ward interviews Karen Sherman, president of the Akilah Institute, a postsecondary institution for women in Rwanda. Q: Describe the Akilah Institute’s academic program. What are students learning? Akilah is set up as an education-to-workforce model, a place where young women in Rwanda and other parts of East Africa can gain a college education, ...

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]]> Morgan State University Paving the Way for Adult Learners Through CPL https://www.higheredtoday.org/2016/12/12/morgan-state-university-paving-way-adult-learners-cpl/ Mon, 12 Dec 2016 17:28:59 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=7318 Research shows that adult learners are more likely to enroll in, persist in and complete postsecondary education programs when institutions recognize students’ previous experiences and grant credit for prior learning (CPL). With a boost from ACE’s Center for Education, Attainment and Innovation’s College and University Partnerships (CUP), Morgan State University, the largest historically black college and university in Maryland, is doing ...

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]]> Western Governors University, Ohio Community Colleges Collaborate to Meet Needs of Adult Students https://www.higheredtoday.org/2016/11/21/western-governors-university-ohio-community-colleges-collaborate-meet-needs-adult-students/ Mon, 21 Nov 2016 15:34:35 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=6683 A partnership between Western Governors University (WGU) and the Ohio Association of Community Colleges (OACC) will extend online, competency-based learning opportunities to all Ohio community college graduates. The agreement announced in October allows the graduates, as well as community college employees, to seamlessly transfer their coursework to WGU while also receiving a tuition discount at the accredited, nonprofit online university. It includes ...

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]]> Deconstructing CBE: A Different Approach https://www.higheredtoday.org/2016/08/17/deconstructing-cbe-a-different-approach/ Wed, 17 Aug 2016 19:18:01 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=5503 Many recent studies of competency-based education (CBE) have focused on the types of CBE used by institutions, as well as on which specific institutions now offer CBE programs. Yet the first of three new studies on CBE just released by ACE, Ellucian and Eduventures, “Deconstructing CBE: An Assessment of Institutional Activity, Goals, and Challenges in Higher Education,” takes a deeper dive ...

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]]> The Right Credential for the Right Student at the Right Time https://www.higheredtoday.org/2016/03/30/the-right-credential-for-the-right-student-at-the-right-time/ Wed, 30 Mar 2016 16:29:56 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=4764 By Deborah Seymour & Deborah Everhart Today’s economy and society depend on increasingly higher levels of knowledge and the ability to evolve rapidly and adapt to changing circumstances. Credentials have proliferated to meet the diverse needs of our 21st century knowledge economy, including not only degrees, but also certificates, professional/industry certifications, licensures and badges. And students’ goals in pursuing these credentials also ...

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]]> How to Navigate the Credentialing Maze https://www.higheredtoday.org/2015/08/18/how-to-navigate-the-credentialing-maze/ Tue, 18 Aug 2015 15:33:03 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=3557 ACE’s  Louis Soares and Jason A. Tyszko of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation explore the work being undertaken by the Credential Transparency Initiative. This is part of Lumina Foundation’s National Dialogue on building a learning-based, student-centered credentialing system. Also related is a recent paper released by ACE on “Rethinking Credentialing.” Over the past decade, there has been a stunning increase ...

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]]> Northern Arizona University Helping Students Earn Degrees Through CBE https://www.higheredtoday.org/2014/08/25/northern-arizona-university-helping-students-earn-degrees-through-cbe/ Mon, 25 Aug 2014 17:44:28 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=2036 Northern Arizona University (NAU) is offering a competency based education program as part of its effort to make college more affordable, accessible and help students earn degrees sooner. NAU’s Personalized Learning Division self-paced, online bachelor’s degree program allows students to complete as many courses as they like in a six-month subscription. How long it takes to complete a degree depends on ...

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]]> Credit  for  Prior  Learning:  Why  All  the  Controversy? https://www.higheredtoday.org/2014/06/17/credit-for-prior-learning-whyallthecontroversy/ Tue, 17 Jun 2014 14:43:26 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=1775 Deborah Seymour, former ACE assistant vice president for education attainment and innovation, looks at the debate over new tools for college completion. Prior learning assessment. Life experience credit. Transfer credit. Advanced placement credit. The higher education community increasingly is searching for ways students can reduce the time it takes to earn a college degree or credential. Opinions about the available tools ...

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