by Kate Kazin | Jun 29, 2020 | Admin, Backward design, Competency-based Education (CBE), Future of work, Higher Ed Policy, Reimagining higher education, Uncategorized
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 defined by the deadly confluence of racism, pandemic, and unemployment. Even...
by Kate Kazin | Apr 18, 2019 | Competency-based Education (CBE), Early Childhood Education, Higher Ed Policy, Uncategorized
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 not much in evidence at the conference, but that’s a topic for another...
by Kate Kazin | Mar 21, 2019 | College for America, Competency-based Education (CBE), Higher Ed Policy, Uncategorized
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 opportunity, developing what came to be called College for America. (The...
by Kate Kazin | Feb 1, 2019 | Competency-based Education (CBE), Higher Ed Policy
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 determined Western Governors University was not a correspondence school...
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