For years, the traditional education system in the U.S. has focused on how much time students spend learning, what curriculum and instruction they receive, and which letter grade they earn on their ...

The shift from time to learning, from cohorts to competency, will be tough. It’s not easy or superficial--it’s a new and different way of organizing Students advance upon mastery. Competencies include ...

When the pandemic turned every bedroom, living room, and community center into a classroom, a fundamental shift occurred in what constitutes evidence of learning. No longer able to comfortably walk ...

Competency-based education could be the key to providing quality, postsecondary education to millions of Americans at a lower cost, writes Louis Soares. Mozilla’s Open Badges Initiative and MITx—the ...

We’re going to need every ounce of ingenuity, imagination, and creativity to confront...problems Sir Ken Robinson The world is changing, and -- as Sir Ken Robinson professes -- we will need every ...

PHOENIX -- A group of colleges that offer competency-based education programs this week released a draft set of voluntary quality standards for the emerging form of higher education. Competency-based ...

Competency Based Education (or Proficiency Based Learning, or Outcome Based Education, or Mastery Learning, or whatever new name appears next week) is the up-and-coming flavor of the week in education ...

NASHVILLE -- Mart Sessler has gone far with his associate degree. He worked his way up to vice president of information systems at a large insurance provider. But after 25 years in his field, Sessler ...

"I went to a four-year university." "That job requires a one-year certificate." "It's a two-semester course." "She's a fifth-year senior." What do these expressions have in common? They use time as ...

A new initiative aims at giving Nevada students more flexibility to move through classes at their own pace. The “Nevada Future of Learning Network” focuses on competency-based learning. The goal is to ...

In today's education system, you might see a new type of question in your exams– competency-based questions. Unlike traditional questions that just ask you to remember facts, these questions want you ...