Curriculum trend: 4 ways to become more competency-based Angela Di Michele Lalor October 26, 2017 How to make a classroom curriculum more competency-based, where the focus is on helping all students ...

Scores of colleges are gearing up to offer new competency-based degrees. But some college leaders are confused about whether the U.S. Department of Education remains supportive of a new form of ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The announcement of Purdue Polytechnic Institute’s competency-based baccalaureate program - the first of its kind in the nation - is being well received by business, education ...

The idea couldn't be simpler: Instead of awarding college degrees based on the accumulation of credit hours — essentially "seat time" in the classroom — make the foundation of a degree a set of ...

Evaluating the Evolution of Critical Thinking, Creativity, Communication and Collaboration in Higher Education Courses ...

Tom Rooney sees competency-based education—supported by digital learning tools—as the path to building a better school district. The superintendent of the 4,200-student Lindsay Unified School District ...

Andrea Miranda didn’t think traditional four-year college was in her future when she graduated from high school in Massachusetts in 2010. It was expensive, especially compared with free college in ...

Competency-based education is an approach focused on equipping students with practical skills for future life and work. A new policy review examining Thailand’s version of this reform reveals its ...

The value of a liberal arts education rests less in the questions that our students learn to answer, and more in the questions that our students learn to ask. I am skeptical of any claim that ...

Educators all over the world are thinking creatively about ways to transform the traditional education system into an experience that will propel students forward into the world ready to take on its ...

It’s been nearly four centuries since the first formal classrooms appeared in what would eventually become the United States. The earliest example of a public school was the Boston Latin School, ...