College and university leaders continue to show great enthusiasm for competency-based learning. They believe it can address some of higher education’s most pernicious challenges: rising costs, ...

A recent study suggests that although there is growing interest in skills- and competency-based learning, few colleges and universities have actually implemented the new model. The report, released ...

Twenty-year-old Asmaa is an example of how constant change and upheaval were hallmarks of the previous school year. A student of mine in an accelerated program for new arrivals to the U.S., in just ...

Personalized learning. Proficiency-based education. Mastery-based learning. Competency-based education. They’re all different terms that refer to a reimagining of how schools operate so that students ...

If a school has truly moved away from seat-time-based models and social promotion, then an observer would expect to see multiple ages learning together rather than age or grade-level as the primary ...

Speakers at last week's annual conference of the nonprofit Competency-Based Education Network promoted a new report that's part of a coordinated push to grow adoption and acceptance of the education ...

Keeping kids engaged at school, and getting them ready for the future of work, will take more than recycling old content into new activities - the entire structure of education needs to change. I ...

Students are looking for learning-life balance, and technology tools can make it easier for colleges and universities to help them achieve it. The way students learn has fundamentally changed.

Today’s organizations are at a crucial crossroads: invest in and adapt old-school talent management processes now or face the consequences. That statement isn’t meant to ignite fear. Instead, it’s ...