A college diploma is not like Scotch anymore
This blog was first published on CompetencyWorks Brand names are powerful. Many have written about the Chivas Regal effect in higher education in the United […]
This blog was first published on CompetencyWorks Brand names are powerful. Many have written about the Chivas Regal effect in higher education in the United […]
Apr 30, 2015
For 12 years, the Babson Survey Group in partnership with other organizations, including the Online Learning Consortium (formerly the Sloan Consortium), has done critical research […]
Apr 23, 2015
University of California President Janet Napolitano took recently to the pages of the Washington Post to review and critique new books on the future of […]
Apr 9, 2015
This blog was first published on CompetencyWorks. Although practitioners may squabble over the definition of competency-based education (CBE), there is a fundamental core of CBE […]
Mar 31, 2015
“People entering academic fields have long taken the economics of higher education for granted, never asking where, exactly, the money comes from to support the […]
Mar 10, 2015
Edited by Mark Schneider and KC Deane With contributing authors Michael B. Horn, Michelle R. Weise, and Lloyd Armstrong This volume assembles a team of experts from a variety of disciplines to examine both the history ...
Feb 25, 2015
Last month, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching released a report titled “The Carnegie Unit: A Century-Old Standard in a Changing Education Landscape.” […]
Feb 23, 2015
This blog was first published on CompetencyWorks. The question seems laughable, doesn’t it? Particularly for institutions just beginning to hash out what a CBE program […]
Feb 20, 2015
A Wall Street Journal article last week reported that the Obama administration is running into major political and technical obstacles in completing and rolling out […]
Feb 19, 2015
You might be surprised to hear that more than 20,000 students graduated in 2014 with high school diplomas from a 125-year-old school based in Scranton, […]
Jan 28, 2015