A new competency-mapping-based instructional model for health assessment education integrates global nursing competency frameworks into a structured, progressive pathway. Drawing on international ...

Great ideas abound. Putting them into practice when it requires not simple adjustments, but completely new machinery is a massive challenge when considering our established educational practices. This ...

CLEVELAND – Two colleges recently visited Lakeshore Technical College to gain insight into its competency-based learning model. Instructors, deans and guidance coaches from Oregon-based Umpqua ...

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 ...

The state of New Hampshire is contemplating a shift to competency based learning. As reported by Amanda Gokee for the Boston Glode, the shift is facing pushback from many educators. The pushback is ...

Health care industry boards are revisiting the benefits of a strict competency-based approach to their composition. This, given that multiple new regulatory and environmental challenges to the health ...

California’s community colleges are experimenting with a radical new model of education, but some professors are pushing back. Faculty at Madera Community College have become the most vocal opposition ...

Last year, I had the pleasure of visiting the campus of my alma mater, Eastern Illinois University, in rural Charleston, about 55 miles south of Urbana-Champaign. Not much had changed since I last ...

Competency-based education has become a global trend, promoted by international organizations such as the OECD and UNESCO, to equip students with skills for future careers and societal participation.

CHEYENNE — The future of education in Wyoming will involve competency-based education rather than be focused on "seat time" as it is now, the director of the Wyoming Department of Education said ...

[DES MOINES, Iowa] — Gov. Kim Reynolds signed new legislation to reform foster care training in Iowa. Reynolds signed Senate File 2096 into law. The legislation shifts foster parent training to a ...