Clarifying Competency-Based Education Terms
— Co-written with Deborah Seymour | Assistant Vice President of Education Attainment and...
PLA and the Completion Agenda: Creating Value for Students and Institutions
It’s critical for colleges and universities to increase their PLA capacity in order for them to do...
PLA and the Completion Agenda: Understanding PLA
There are student-centered and university-centered ways for institutions to allow students to gain...
The New Breed of Competency-Based Education Degree Programs: A Trend or Fad? (Part 3)
It’s critical that, as competency-based education becomes more common, it’s not defined and treated...
Driving Enrollments and Completion: The Value of Accepting PLA for Colleges
Acceptance of prior learning may mean institutions make less money per student, but it will...
Access to Learning: Opportunities for Adult Learners to Excel Beyond the Baccalaureate
Allowing non-traditional students to highlight their competencies and to tie classroom theory with...
The Competency-Based Marketplace is More Diverse Than You Think
As more and more institutions launch competency-based programs, students and observers need to...
PLA and Competency Key to Getting People Back to Work
Higher education institutions must focus services and assessments around the distinct needs of...
The Promise and Roadblocks of Competency-Based Education
Competency-based programming provides a pathway to a credential for students who might otherwise be...
Mapping the Rise of Competency-Based Education
Competency-based education is an example of the rising responsiveness of the higher education...
The Case for Proficiency-Based Programs: Access and Economic Growth
Proficiency-based programs can be a challenge to create, but they give universities a new way to...
Experiential Online Graduate Programs Enhance Learning Outcomes and Career Readiness
Online graduate programming is beginning to emerge as a highly-rigorous and well-regarded mechanism...
