A College Diploma is Not Like Scotch Anymore
Brand names are powerful. Many have written about the Chivas Regal effect in higher education in the…
High Schools May Be Competency-Based Without Knowing It?
Does your high school offer Advanced Placement or IB tests? If so, you may be participating in…
iNACOL Policy Update – Missouri Moves Forward on Course Access; ESEA Advances in the Senate
April 13 – April 17, 2015 Last week, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee…
What’s in the Senate ESEA Reauthorization Bill?—Highlights of The Every Child Achieves Act of 2015 for the Field of Blended, Online, and Competency Education
Yesterday, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions voted unanimously to advance The Every Child…
23 Groups Call for Innovative Assessment Flexibility in ESEA Reauthorization
By Maria Worthen and Lillian Pace This week, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee…
23 Groups Call for Innovative Assessment Flexibility in ESEA Reauthorization
This post originally appeared on CompetencyWorks on April 14, 2015. This week, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and…
iNACOL Policy Update – A Midsession Night’s Dream (and Much Ado about ESEA)
April 3 – April 10, 2015 Congratulations for making it through the first half of the 2015…
CBE: The UMUC Approach
University of Maryland University College is preparing to offer its first undergraduate competency-based program this fall in…
Rwanda’s Ahead of the Online CBE Learning Curve
Although practitioners may squabble over the definition of competency-based education (CBE), there is a fundamental core of…
iNACOL Policy Update – March Madness: Amendments become game-changers
March 6 – March 13, 2015 The amount of newly introduced legislation has slowed down this week….