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
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
Competency-Based Learning
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
Competency-Based Learning
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
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