Competency-based education is gaining steam, but questions remain about which forms the U.S. Department of Education will back. Scores of colleges are gearing up to offer new competency-based degrees.

When the pandemic turned every bedroom, living room, and community center into a classroom, a fundamental shift occurred in what constitutes evidence of learning. No longer able to comfortably walk ...

What would the testing experience be like if schools allowed students to show what they know whenever they’re ready, in a variety of ways that suit them, and in ways that are instructionally useful?

Southern New Hampshire University's competency-based program, College for America, is opening up new options for the assessment of student learning. It's also turning the notion of the traditional ...

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Capella University, the first institution approved to offer federal financial aid for bachelor’s and master’s degrees through a unique direct assessment approach to ...

The idea couldn't be simpler: Instead of awarding college degrees based on the accumulation of credit hours — essentially "seat time" in the classroom — make the foundation of a degree a set of ...

Your school, program, or college has probably seen improvement in learner access to technology in the last few years (although it may still be an EdTech mess of devices and apps). But you may still be ...

Businesses use several tools to assess the competency of their workers. Such instruments measure the ability to perform the job and ancillary skills such as spatial reasoning. Moreover, employers have ...

Paul LeBlanc certainly thinks so. He sees it as a realistic way to reverse the trend toward deepening socioeconomic inequality. Some call for educational innovation. Others make it happen. No ...