Don’t capitulate to the credit hour, recreate it Julia Freeland Fisher Don’t capitulate to the credit hour, recreate it 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 Julia Freeland Fisher
What comes after ‘next’? Michelle R. Weise, PhD What comes after ‘next’? 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 Michelle R. Weise, PhD
Why Obama’s higher ed ratings are struggling Michael B. Horn Why Obama’s higher ed ratings are struggling 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 Michael B. Horn
Are you ever too old to disrupt? What Penn Foster has been up to Julia Freeland Fisher Are you ever too old to disrupt? What Penn Foster has been up to 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 Julia Freeland Fisher
Education storms onto national radar in 2015, but not innovation Michael B. Horn Education storms onto national radar in 2015, but not innovation On the heels of my predictions for education in 2015, activity around renewing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (also known as ESEA or No […] Jan 23, 2015 Michael B. Horn
Competency-Based Learning You gotta keep ’em separated: How to give CBE breathing room Michelle R. Weise, PhD You gotta keep ’em separated: How to give CBE breathing room This blog was first published on CompetencyWorks. Last month, I wrote about the inevitable “sausage-making” that occurs when organizations try to cram an innovative and […] Jan 22, 2015 Michelle R. Weise, PhD Competency-Based Learning
Competency-based education needs breathing room Michelle R. Weise, PhD Competency-based education needs breathing room This blog was first published on CompetencyWorks. The running joke about higher education is that change doesn’t come eventually, but glacially. Much of academic inertia […] Dec 8, 2014 Michelle R. Weise, PhD
U.S. DOE aims to revamp teacher preparation Thomas Arnett U.S. DOE aims to revamp teacher preparation Last week teacher preparation programs across the country received big news. On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Education proposed new regulations that would put more […] Dec 3, 2014 Thomas Arnett
Is there any difference between competency-based education and mastery-based learning? Michelle R. Weise, PhD Is there any difference between competency-based education and mastery-based learning? This blog was first published on CompetencyWorks. I smiled as a young research assistant asked me this because many higher education leaders who work on […] Nov 7, 2014 Michelle R. Weise, PhD
Higher ed innovator Paul Freedman dishes on future of college, accreditation, and gainful employment Michael B. Horn Higher ed innovator Paul Freedman dishes on future of college, accreditation, and gainful employment In the wake of the Department of Education’s release of the new gainful employment regulations, which are intended to protect students from poor-performing career college […] Nov 6, 2014 Michael B. Horn
Accreditation is bigger than a chicken-and-egg problem Michelle R. Weise, PhD Accreditation is bigger than a chicken-and-egg problem Sylvia Manning, former president of the regional accrediting agency, the Higher Learning Commission, who was also infamously embroiled in the closure of Altius Education, has […] Nov 3, 2014 Michelle R. Weise, PhD
Back to Bloom: Solving the 2 Sigma Problem with Online CBE Michelle R. Weise, PhD Back to Bloom: Solving the 2 Sigma Problem with Online CBE The term competency-based education (CBE) is a lot like the term disruption. It gets misused more frequently than it is deployed correctly. So when I […] Oct 22, 2014 Michelle R. Weise, PhD