Business Model Innovation Food for thought: The data-driven future of food and higher education Michelle R. Weise, PhD Food for thought: The data-driven future of food and higher education Keyed into our on-demand culture, Chef David Chang is going all in: The award-winning chef who created Momofuku Ssäm Bar, Má Pêche, Milk Bar, and […] June 7, 2016 Michelle R. Weise, PhD Business Model Innovation
Hope for what’s next Michelle R. Weise, PhD Hope for what’s next Dear readers, Today, I will be moving on from my role at the Christensen Institute to direct the Innovation Lab at Southern New Hampshire University. I […] May 15, 2015 Michelle R. Weise, PhD
A college diploma is not like Scotch anymore Michelle R. Weise, PhD 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 […] Apr 30, 2015 Michelle R. Weise, PhD
Rwanda’s ahead of the online CBE learning curve Michelle R. Weise, PhD Rwanda’s ahead of the online CBE learning curve 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 Michelle R. Weise, PhD
Is the end of Sweet Briar the end of college? Michelle R. Weise, PhD Is the end of Sweet Briar the end of college? “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 Michelle R. Weise, PhD
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
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
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
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
When bad teaching is better for students Michelle R. Weise, PhD When bad teaching is better for students At the 16th annual FNESP (Fórum Nacional do Ensino Superior Privado), the largest gathering of all of the private universities in Brazil, I had the […] Oct 1, 2014 Michelle R. Weise, PhD