On Nov. 16, 2021, Jill S. Weber, the chief business development officer at Quarles & Brady LLP, led a session explaining how she created and executed a competency-based business development curriculum ...

Roughly 600 colleges are in the design phase for a new competency-based education program, are actively creating one or already have a program in place. That’s up from an estimated 52 institutions ...

As more universities embrace competency-based education for students, some of them are looking at ways to offer a similar approach to faculty. In competency-based education, learners shoot for ...

The application of competency-based education in U.S. higher education is uneven: Some programs are just starting up; others are firmly rooted and flourishing as they serve today's non-traditional ...

More industries are showing interest in this age-old pathway to well-paying, high-demand jobs. States have a role to play in ...

The traditional approach to formal education ties students to classrooms. Degrees are earned based on accumulated credits, a system developed in 1906 as an attempt to measure how much time a student ...

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 ...

Institutions that are in the process of developing competency-based education ("CBE") programs now have a clearer window to the US Department of Education's perspective on how federal student ...

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 ...