Educators are increasingly getting behind a big idea: organize learning and recognize achievement based on students’ mastery of a defined set of competencies. Competency-based education, also known as ...

Competency-Based Education has been gathering steam hand in hand with Personalized [sic] Learning as the Next Big New Thing in education. But for folks who have been around education for a few ...

Keeping kids engaged at school, and getting them ready for the future of work, will take more than recycling old content into new activities - the entire structure of education needs to change. I ...

Well-developed competency-based approaches can also help undergird the badges movement, demanding that such efforts be transparent about the claims associated with a badge and the assessments used to ...

Competency-based dental education focuses on the knowledge, professional skills and behaviour required of new graduates. Extensive, discipline-based dental curricula can be reduced when essential ...

Higher education is moving toward a competency-based model, where graduation depends on demonstrated ability, not years put in.

WASHINGTON -- The Association of American Colleges and Universities has worked to make its voice heard in discussions about competency-based education, MOOCs and other trendy alternatives to ...

She advises leaders to lead with competency-based questions — for example, ask for specific instances of any setbacks the candidates have faced and how they recovered. This will help to evaluate the ...

The “competency learning' movement is gaining serious momentum. But, drawing on decades of research in the psychology of learning, we will argue in this week’s blog post that competency learning ...

The conceptual difference between a competency-based education and an education based upon a conventional dental curriculum is, perhaps, the starting point for the development of new curricula ...

The transformative potential of competency based education lies in more than any one product or application. CBE is the new operating system for higher education; we’re just awaiting the apps.

New Hampshire schools demonstrate how competency-based education offers a positive, skills-based approach to standards learning, writes Ronald A. Wolk.