Paul LeBlanc, president of Southern New Hampshire University, has become a leading proponent of competency-based education, a way to award degrees based on testing and portfolios rather than ...

Usually you find a job or start a business that relies on those skills for which you hold a high degree of competency. Businesses typically place people in positions that take advantage of the ...

"Competency-based” education appears to be this year’s answer to America’s higher education challenges, judging from this week's news in Washington. Unlike MOOCs (last year’s solution), there is, ...

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) - A competency hearing for Shane Helmbrecht, the man charged with killing an Jenn Ward of Eau Claire in 2016, will continue next month in Eau Claire County Court. The hearing ...

Competency-based education could be the key to providing quality, postsecondary education to millions of Americans at a lower cost, writes Louis Soares. Mozilla’s Open Badges Initiative and MITx—the ...

CORRECTIONS MAINTAIN THAT THESE PROBLEMS ARE NOTHING NEW. WHILE HE FEELS HE’S SHINING A LIGHT ON IT, THIS IS NOT A NEW PROBLEM TO THE STATE. NEWS NINE INVESTIGATES HAS LEARNED THAT CRIMINALS WITH ...

Purdue University has announced a new "AI working competency" requirement, the first of its kind at an institution of higher learning, for all undergraduate students on their main campus, Indianapolis ...

In the Vermont House Judiciary section of the legislative website, two bills dealing with competency are listed. H.251 was ...