Endowments on trial
Today, the House Ways and Means Committee will be holding hearings on the endowments of America’s elite institutions of higher education. Ostensibly, the inquiry relates […]
Competency-Based Learning
Today, the House Ways and Means Committee will be holding hearings on the endowments of America’s elite institutions of higher education. Ostensibly, the inquiry relates […]
Sept 13, 2016
Competency-Based Learning
As more adults than ever before enroll in postsecondary education programs and a variety of players—from bootcamps to online and mobile course providers—offer options tailored […]
Sept 8, 2016
When Michelle R. Weise and Clayton Christensen published Hire Education: Mastery, Modularization, and Workforce Revolution in 2014, they chronicled the disruptive trajectory of online competency-based […]
July 19, 2016
Last week, I wrote about the need for stackable global credentials in order to meet the quickly growing international demand for higher education. Globally, the […]
July 7, 2016
The dreaded “F” is going out of vogue in schools. This week’s Washington Post article, “Is it becoming too hard to fail?”, chronicled a host of K–12 […]
July 6, 2016
It took 912 years from the founding of the first university in Bologna in 1088 for the global higher education system to grow to serve 100 […]
June 29, 2016
A few weeks ago, I discussed why law schools need to respond to the changing marketplace for legal services and legal education. In thinking about how […]
Mar 29, 2016
Competency-based education (CBE) continues to gain momentum as an alternative to the four-year college degree. Yet, while CBE programs are gaining traction, they struggle against […]
Mar 10, 2016
This post was first published on CompetencyWorks. Earlier this month, Inside Higher Ed reported on how the Department of Education’s Office of Inspector General is […]
Oct 29, 2015
Over the past few years, a new category of EdTech platform has popped up across K–12 and higher education called the learning relationship management system […]
Oct 27, 2015