College students and their parents find it increasingly difficult to cope with tuition hyperinflation and historically high student-loan debt. Over the last 30 years, the average tuition for a U.S.

Competency-based education is going upmarket. Three brand-name, Big Ten-affiliated institutions are now offering degrees in this emerging form of higher education. Yet the new programs at the ...

The U.S. Department of Education and regional accreditors are closer to being on the same page about competency-based education. With two sides of the regulatory triad that oversees higher education ...

Competency-based education could be the key to providing quality, postsecondary education to millions of Americans at a lower cost, writes Louis Soares. Mozilla’s Open Badges Initiative and MITx—the ...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Eight years after releasing the field's first working definition of competency-based education, CompetencyWorks (at the Aurora Institute, formerly iNACOL, ...

Competency-based education is an approach focused on equipping students with practical skills for future life and work. A new policy review examining Thailand’s version of this reform reveals its ...

The researchers took pains to try to isolate the effects of competency-based based education on student outcomes and dropout rates, but in some cases where unable to find statistically significant ...