Many watching the world of Competency Based Education were again rattled by the most recent news that the Department of Education’s Office of the Inspector General has been auditing Western Governors University for the last three years. The OIG is questioning whether WGU should be downgraded from...
Sometimes Twitter is just too small for big ideas– below is a twitter conversation that sprung up around my recent post Competency vs. Mastery. This post will describe how Knowledge Skills and Attitudes fit into the big picture of assessing student mastery of learning competencies.
Competenc...
https://twitter.com/PhilOnEdTech/status/597437636907700224
Hi Phil, Thanks for your kind invitation to think this out.
I think we all need to be very explicit about what we mean when we use terms like “competency”, “mastery”, “outcomes”, and “learning objectives”. Either I’m showing my ignor...
The role of the instructor has become ever more complex in the last century as technology, pedagogy, and student expectations have advanced with the times. Today’s teacher is expected to not only be a Subject Matter Expert, but to serve as their own Instructional Designer, provide high‐touch stu...