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…
You Gotta Keep ’em Separated: How to Give CBE Breathing Room
Last month, I wrote about the inevitable “sausage-making” that occurs when organizations try to cram an innovative…
Community Colleges Adapt to CBE for the Benefit of Their Students
This post originally appeared at the WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies (WCET) on October 28, 2014. As…
Kentucky’s Commonwealth College – United We Stand
This post originally appeared at the WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies (WCET) on December 17, 2014. Commonwealth…
Opportunities to Grow Your CBE Program
While no one knows for sure just how many institutions of higher education are implementing or considering…
Competency-Based Education Needs Breathing Room
The running joke about higher education is that change doesn’t come eventually, but glacially. Much of academic…
Southern New Hampshire Reshaping Higher Ed Landscape
Originally posted October 9, 2014 on Getting Smart. Manchester, New Hampshire may seem like an unlikely place…
Is There Any Difference between Competency-Based Education and Mastery-Based Learning?
I smiled as a young research assistant asked me this because many higher education leaders who work…
Ten Ways that Competency-Based Education is the same in K-12 & Higher Education
Last June, I had the chance to co-present on competency-based education (CBE) with Charla Long, dean of…