Competency-Based Education in its current form is a fairly recent innovation with many institutions implementing new CBE programs or exploring the suitability for their institution. The lessons WGU has learned about barriers to success and challenges to scalability with a student enrollment of 72,000 students will be highlighted.
Competency-Based Education in its current form is a fairly recent innovation with many institutions implementing new CBE programs or exploring the suitability for their institution. The lessons WGU has learned about barriers to success and challenges to scalability with a student enrollment of more than 72,000 students will be highlighted.
In recent years there has been a growing concern about increasing the number of certificate and degree holders in high-demand career fields. Politicians and policy makers are calling for less expensive paths to postsecondary credentials for an estimated 36 million adults with some college credits but no degree. By 2020 it is estimated that more than 5 million jobs will go unfilled for lack of qualified candidates with the credentials required.
In order to educate and certify the competency of the needed workforce, changes in public policy, law, regulation and related barriers must be addressed at the national, state and local levels. At the same time, we need to ensure that financial aid funding is effectively use to support successful students.
This presentation will provide the WGU perspective on how competency-based education can provide the workforce needed for the future at an affordable cost.