What’s New in Competency-Based Higher Education?
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Upcoming Event: The Saylor Higher Education Summit is being held on June 21-22 in Washington, D.C., which brings together leading decision makers and influencers across higher education who will share programs, initiatives and ideas such as competency education. Learn more here.
The Journal of Competency-Based Education
A new issue of The Journal of Competency-Based Education has been released. New articles include:
- Designing quality into direct-assessment competency-based education
- “Right on the money”: CBE student satisfaction and post graduation outcomes
- Editorial
- Competency-based education as a force for equity
- Student success and retention using new definitions created for nonterm, direct assessment CBE
Education Dive reports: A report recently published in the Journal of Competency-Based Education shows CBE programs remain popular among older, “nontraditional” students who already have work experience, with just 10% of undergrads at CBE institutions under the age of 25. For more on the kinds of students most likely to enroll, read this article from eCampus News.
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