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The ACGME Milestones were developed as a foundation for competency-based medical education. Utilizing Backward Design and operationalizing the competencies to develop a curriculum can help to ensure ...
New Hampshire's Assessment for Learning Project (ALP) has been a quest to deepen and personalize competency-based learning for all students.
What is the greatest challenge to competency-based learning scaling across America? It's not seat time mandates.
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 ...
In competency-based formats, instructors adjust to interacting regularly with students, directing students toward clear learning outcomes and other departures from their traditional practices.
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 ...
The instructional help they receive is timely and differentiated, based on their individual learning needs. The challenge for CBE proponents, the authors wrote, is that districts and schools are ...
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 ...
The biggest takeaway from a June iNACOL report on competency-based learning is that school districts identify learning goals when they design a personalized learning program.
Advocates of competency-based education see it as a way to free students from age-based cohorts and seat-time. But there may be drawbacks to this innovative approach, too.
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 ...