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Competency-based education is a hot idea, albeit not a new one. But as it is with anything in higher education, there is great variation among numerous emerging models. And understanding how they work is complicated by the fact that competency-based programs don’t look like much like most peoples’ vision of college.

On the least-ambitious end is an approach that merely embeds “competencies” into a conventional degree program. Loosely defined, a competency is a specified knowledge, skill or ability that a student can demonstrate, typically through an assessment.

Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/04/22/new-competency-based-programs-lipscomb-could-be-model-liberal-arts-colleges#ixzz2znbRF9h3 
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