New research indicates more job opportunities would be available if apprenticeships were expanded across more fields.
Competency-based learning
Competency-based learning
Mar 02, 2022
Workforce Talent Educators Association wants to recognize, and conceivably accredit, institutions for how successfully they prepare students for work.
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It's (past) time to rethink the credit hour (opinion)
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Essay on need for better data on what works in competency-based education
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Personalized learning should replace higher education's unfair fixation on speed (opinion)
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November 30, 2017
House education committee leaks its ambitious first draft of a reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, with broad changes aimed at both deregulation and more accountability in how federal student aid is distributed and used.
October 31, 2017
Diversification bid from the two well-respected for-profits comes amid serious shake-up of the sector, which continues despite a more favorable regulatory climate.
August 1, 2017
A $20 million project from National U seeks to combine adaptive courseware, predictive analytics and competency-based learning with a goal of better serving adult students.
June 16, 2017
Colleges educating nontraditional learners would do well to study the Army’s competency-based approach, writes Steven Delvaux.
March 22, 2017
Republican-dominated Washington wants more occupational job training as an alternative to college degrees. But higher education will remain the federal government’s primary job-training system, albeit one experts say could use a reboot.
March 20, 2017
Despite the buzz, competency-based education remains a challenging market for software vendors.
March 16, 2017
Big for-profit American Public now offers competency-based undergraduate degrees that don’t rely on the credit-hour standard, but federal aid isn’t part of the mix, for now.
March 1, 2017
Credential innovation is so important because colleges provide much of what employers are looking for, but they don’t assess, document and communicate those outcomes, argues Matthew Pittinsky.
December 2, 2016
What is higher education’s version of the minimum viable product -- the smallest, simplest unit that meets the public’s needs? Developing it will be a key goal for college leaders over the next decade, Ryan Craig argues.