Competency-based Education (CBE)

Volta Learning Group (VLG) is thrilled to be partnering with Texas State Technical College (TSTC) as they transition to a statewide competency based model for all program delivery. VLG will be [...]

It’s time to retire Bloom’s taxonomy.  Originally published in 1956, before personal computers, the internet and smart phones — not to mention a contemporary understanding of the [...]

We are no longer preparing for the future of work in this country: the future of work is here. The pandemic and ensuing devastating job loss have accelerated an already rising need for a flexible [...]

We regularly encounter curriculum that is engaging, creative and effective, followed by… a multiple choice quiz.  What is there about assessment that seems to be off-limits to [...]

I cringe a little when I hear the phrase, much bandied about these days: “don’t waste a good crisis.” It seems altogether too crass, too flippant for the painful times we are living in, now [...]

Let’s begin with a full confession:  we are in the competency business, and yet recently found ourselves asking each other: “do you know what people actually mean by ‘competency [...]

At the recent ASU-GSV meeting in San Diego, nearly 5,000 ed-tech innovators convened to discuss opportunities and challenges in education and talent innovation from “pre-K to gray.”  (“Gray” was [...]

It’s not everyday that you get to design, build — and grow — a new college.  But in 2012, a small team based in an innovation lab at Southern New Hampshire University got exactly that [...]

Like the newspaper retraction that goes relatively unnoticed — at least compared with the original sensational article — the recent announcement that the Department of Education had [...]