Authentic learning (AL for short) provides tasks and experiences that closely resemble the expected work environment, and engages students through its practical application. Benjamin S. Bloom...
CBExchange 2017: Overcoming Resistance
This is the fifth post in a series of posts on the CBExchange 2017 Conference held in Phoenix, AZ. All posts are available at tag CBExchange-2017.
How do we successfully propose and overcome...
CBExchange 2017: Telling Your Quality Story (Quantitatively)
This is part two of my posts on "Telling your quality story" part one reflects on the presentation by Alison Kadlec at CBExchange 2017. All posts on this conference are tagged CBExchange...
CBExchange 2017: Telling Your Quality Story (Qualitatively)
I often presented the successes of my institutions to people with no background in CBE or online. The challenge I found was to quickly generate interest before they engaged their defenses against...
OIG’s Audit of WGU
Yesterday, 9/21/2017, the Office of the Inspector General issued its years-in-the-making recommendation on its audit of Western Governor's University. WGU and other stakeholders have...
CBExchange 2017: Strategy Update
Amber Garrison Duncan presented the three pillars of the CBEN strategy and Deb Bushway elaborated them.
- Build Demand - and quality - see the CBE Principles and Standards
- Build Capacity -...
CBExchange 2017 News
I'm excited and it's because I'm at CBExchange! I have a series of posts on the conference at tag CBExchange 2017.
There are so many colleges and universities represented here who are getting...
Employers Demand but Dont Get Key Skills
Lucas B. Kavlie, EdD, Amy Fulton, and I assembled some research on what employers expect from graduates vs. what they're getting. Yet, what students want is to succeed at work, so why aren't they...
Competency-based Institutional Learning
Competency-based Education (CBE) has been promoted as a solution to controlling costs, closing the gap between what colleges provide and employers want, and improving graduation. One element not...
