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Higher Education Will Be Forced to Do This Recession Differently, and That’s a Good Thing

Laurie Arnston — Mon, 04 May 2020 18:19:18 +0000

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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Increasing Access to Prepare for Jobs of the Future, According to a New Urban Institute Report

Laurie Arnston — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 15:04:23 +0000

Title: Training for Jobs of the Future. Improving Access, Certifying Skills, and Expanding Apprenticeship Source: Urban Institute Authors: Robert Lerman, Pamela Loprest, and Daniel Kuehn According to a new report from the Urban Institute, current changes in the economy and workforce call for action to maximize worker training and increase productivity and wages. Such changes indicate increases in low-wage jobs and ...

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Report Examines Postsecondary Competency-based Education Across the Country

ACE — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 17:05:02 +0000

Title: Findings From the 2018 National Survey of Postsecondary Competency-Based Education Source: American Institutes for Research and Eduventures Research The American Institutes for Research (AIR) and Eduventures have released findings from their 2018 survey on competency-based education (CBE), which looked at the scope of CBE programs and activities at more than 500 U.S. colleges and universities. Key findings include: 55 percent ...

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“Learning by Doing” Through Apprenticeships and Flexible Completion Pathways

Laurie Arnston — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 18:25:43 +0000

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

ACE — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 08:30:54 +0000

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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Competency Frameworks: Blueprints for Strong Learning Structures

Laurie Arnston — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 17:35:11 +0000

Title: Competency Frameworks: Blueprints for Strong Learning Structures Author: Holly Zanville Source: Lumina Foundation A recent blog post from the Lumina Foundation discusses how frameworks act as blueprints to ensure all credentials are of high quality. Author Holly Zanville argues that redesigning the credentialing process to use learning frameworks in the creation of such systems will help build pathways for learners ...

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ACE at 100: Lifting Nontraditional Learners to Postsecondary Success

Laurie Arnston — Fri, 26 May 2017 16:39:15 +0000

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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How Can We Better Communicate the Meaning of New Credentials?

Laurie Arnston — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 15:27:18 +0000

By Laurie Arnston As postsecondary education becomes more complex and the number of credentials, badges, certificates and degrees increases, there is a growing need to understand the hows and whys of the available options. A Sunday morning session at ACE2017 looked at the work of Credential Engine, a nonprofit organization established to create an open-source registry to help stakeholders share information about credentials, as ...

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Changing the Game for Women in East Africa

Laurie Arnston — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 17:25:33 +0000

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

Laurie Arnston — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 17:28:59 +0000

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

Laurie Arnston — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 15:34:35 +0000

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

Laurie Arnston — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 19:18:01 +0000

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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