Educators may now be familiar with the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education’s (ACGME) recognition of competency-based medical education through their introduction of Milestones for ...

New Hampshire’s Assessment for Learning Project (ALP) has been a quest to deepen and personalize competency-based learning for all students. During the 2016-2017 school year, we attempted to confront ...

What is the greatest challenge to competency-based learning scaling across America? A popular answer is the hard rules and soft infrastructure our K-12 systems devote toward seat time mandates. I ...

What exactly is competency-based learning? Check out Competency Works' description here. Competency-based learning (CBL) refers to the notion of allowing learners to acquire credits based on goals ...

A new report from CompetencyWorks offers "logic models" for helping to build understanding about competency-based education. Co-author Chris Sturgis warned in a blog article that the 59-page document ...

Many instructors begin the course-development process by asking themselves what they want students to have learned when the semester ends. Nina Morel, dean and professor of professional studies at ...

This article is part of the collection: Real Life Learning: An Up Close Look at Competency-Based Education. Does competency-based education hold the key to providing an equitable learning opportunity ...

For years, the traditional education system in the U.S. has focused on how much time students spend learning, what curriculum and instruction they receive, and which letter grade they earn on their ...

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 ...

The field of instructional design in higher education has evolved to encompass a comprehensive set of competencies that integrate pedagogical best practices, advanced technological skills and a deep ...

This article reports on the findings of a formative evaluation of an online competency-based child welfare practice course, paying particular attention to the instructional design principles and ...

As K-12 competency-based education programs become more widespread, educators and policymakers would do well to focus on four key issues that can make or break high-quality programs, according to a ...