Innovation in action: CBE and bridging the college to career gap
When powered by user-centered design and learning science, CBE can motivate student learning and bridge the college to career gap.
When powered by user-centered design and learning science, CBE can motivate student learning and bridge the college to career gap.
Apr 7, 2022
Integrating across silos will be key to improving the gap between learning and work. But getting crisp on outcomes should drive innovation.
Nov 9, 2020
With COVID-19 dictating everyone's timeline, could competency-based education, a model in which learning is fixed and time is variable, help the nation recover more quickly and robustly?
Apr 29, 2020
Healthcare's failure to overhaul its records can inform policymakers and higher ed leaders on how to use stimulus funds for competency-based initiatives.
Apr 23, 2020
Degree inflation is slowly showing signs of reversing. Traditional institutions that ignore these changes do so at their own peril.
Oct 17, 2019
Poorly designed regulation shoulders some of the blame for the high costs and weak outcomes of traditional models of college. How can Congress rethink regulation so that innovative models can shine?
Oct 16, 2018
At traditional schools, college costs keep rising—but disruptive models like Western Governors University point a different way forward, towards high-quality, radically affordable higher education.
Oct 3, 2018
Western Governors University employs an online competency-based model uniquely designed to serve working adults. Could it disrupt higher ed?
Sept 4, 2018
How can institutions innovate without putting their accreditation at risk? The answer depends on a number of factors, many of which are highly unpredictable. This puts a major damper on innovation.
July 24, 2018
College is too expensive—and the costs keep growing. Ideas for the federal government to provide free college won't address the underlying issue, and neither will price fixing on the part of colleges. But innovation ca...
Feb 8, 2018