Capella University and Southern New Hampshire University were the first to successfully take the plunge with direct assessment, an aggressive form of competency-based education that is untethered from ...

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MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Capella University, the first institution approved to offer federal financial aid for bachelor’s and master’s degrees through a unique direct assessment approach to ...

"I went to a four-year university." "That job requires a one-year certificate." "It's a two-semester course." "She's a fifth-year senior." What do these expressions have in common? They use time as ...

CORE Higher Education Group has launched its Competency Based Education (CBE) Blueprint series. CBE Blueprints aid colleges and universities across the country with planning, executing, measuring, and ...

Competency-based education is gaining steam, but questions remain about which forms the U.S. Department of Education will back. Scores of colleges are gearing up to offer new competency-based degrees.

Who says a high school graduate has no chance of competing in the global arena? With the brief competency assessment program offered by the tourism task force, even high school graduates can have the ...

A Cleveland Clinic team has developed a competency-based simulation curriculum to improve surgical residents’ trauma resuscitation skills, replacing traditional experience-based training. Using ...

Hansen and Sørensen describe the redesign of testing in courses offered by the Federation of European Laboratory Animal Science Associations (FELASA), which places “a greater emphasis on learning ...

The following competencies are a product of a series of agency efforts by employees and subject matter experts to identify the critical knowledge and skills to successfully perform in the position of ...