Advancing a New Era of Competency-Based Education

Friday, October 30, 2015 | 9:00AM–9:50AM | Meeting Room 233-234
Session Type: Professional Development
Competency-based education has attracted a lot of interest, but there are many roadblocks, such as managing competencies within and among existing systems, a lack of tools to align content and assessments to competencies, and the ability to appropriately reflect competency statements on the transcript. Explore how institutions are collaborating to address these challenges.


Outcomes: Discuss best practices to implement an open standards framework to scale CBE * Learn how C-BEN, IMS, AACRAO, Quality Matters and the Open Badge Alliance are addressing CBE roadblocks * Discuss learner metric profiles and competency maps for CBE

Presenters

  • Carla Casilli

  • Jeff Grann

    Credential Solutions Lead, Credential Engine

  • Kim Pearce

    Associate Vice President of Academic Quality Analytics & Accreditation, Capella University

  • Karen Vignare

    Vice President, Digital Transformation for Student Success, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU)