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Learning process in a competency-based curriculum:

  • New approaches to time/credits needed for courses, degrees (e.g. 3-week intensive courses)
  • Broad liberal arts skills
  • Universal accessto some residential experience
  • Training for citizenry
  • Functions in learning cycle are optimally bundled
  • Change in public and government perception through education
  • Customised learning (individual path/pace)
  • Less Balkanization and more interdisciplinary curriculum
  • Employer and industry co-authored competencies
  • Recognise that faculty and employers need to work together on outcome goals (assessments)

Measures in place in a competency-based curriculum

  • Input measures
    • Exclusion
    • Selectivity
    • Quality
  • Throughput measures
    • Competency based
    • Learning results
    • Adaptive
    • Experimental
    • Integration of work experience
  • Output measure
    • What we learned
    • Jobs