Three Roadblocks to Creating a Competency-Based Program (Part 2)

By Fatma Mili - EvoLLLution. No degree is an island, and for now competency-based degrees will live in a predominantly credit-based world. On the surface, this is a simple mechanical process by which we map between courses and competencies. Competencies are, after all, nothing but a manifestation of the outcomes we aim to achieve in courses. Thanks to the many accreditation and assessment requirements academic curricula are subjected to, this information is widely documented. The outcomes of a calculus class, for example, can be packaged into three or four relatively independent and self-contained competencies. More...