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How Competency-Based Education May Help Reduce Our Nation’s Toughest Inequities (Krauss, 2017)

Topics: Developmental, Remedial, Under-prepared, & Disadvantaged

How did we get here? A brief history of competency-based higher education in the United States (Nodine, 2016)

Topics: Introduction to and History of CBE

How One New Hampshire District is Leveraging Success Skills in a Competency-Based System (Vander Els and Kiley, 2018)

Topics: K-12

How Student-Centricity and Substantive Interaction Take CBE to the Next Level (Moodian, 2018)

Topics: Student Services

Identifying and Breaking the Competency-based Education Barriers (WCET Session)

Topics: CBE Design Models/Effective Practices

Impact Research: Introducing a program of research on the impact of College for America (CfA, 2016)

Topics: Research Studies

Implementation of competency-based curriculum: College of Philosophy, Universidad Nacional del Este, Paraguay (Pereira de Vallejos, Morel and Tusing, 2017)

Topics: Case Studies

Implementing a CBE Program: Lessons Learned from Community Colleges

Topics: CBE Design Models/Effective Practices

In Pursuit of Equality: A Framework for Equity Strategies in Competency-Based Education (Sturgis, 2017)

Topics: K-12

In rural Maine, a university eliminates most Fs in an effort to increase graduation rates (Feinberg, 2018)

Topics: Case Studies

In Search of Efficacy: Defining the Elements of Quality in a Competency-Based Education System (Sturgis, 2017)

Topics: Assessment and Quality

iNACOL Symposium 2016

Topics: Conferences and Webinars

Industry Competency Models (DOL)

Topics: Competency Frameworks

Information Technology in Health Information Management – New Competency Framework (DOL, 2016)

Topics: Competency Frameworks

Innovate and evaluate: Expanding the research base for competency-based education (AIR, 2016)

Topics: Research Studies

Institute for Competency-Based Education

Topics: Organizations

International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL)

Topics: Organizations

Investing in competency-based education (Blackboard)

Topics: Technology/Vendors for CBE-Related Products

It’s what you learn, not how long it takes: Competency-based education with Charla Long, Natalie Schwartz, and Zainab Okolo

Author: Dakota Pawlicki, Charla Long, Natalie Schwartz, and Zainab Okolo

Topics: Blog Postings/Articles/Other, Definitions, Terms, and Glossaries

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Journal of Competency-Based Education

Topics: Publication Outlets

Key Characteristics of Postsecondary CompetencyBased Education Programs: A Descriptive Rubric

Topics: CBE Design Models/Effective Practices

Learning and Student Success: Presenting the Results of the 2019 Key Issues Survey

Author: Malcolm Brown, EDUCAUSE

Topics: Blog Postings/Articles/Other, Research Studies

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Letter to Accrediting Agency Executive Directors – 6/9/15

Topics: U.S. Department of Education

Levers and Logic Models: A Framework to Guide Research and Design of High-Quality Competency-Based Education Systems (Casey & Sturgis, 2018)

Topics: CBE Design Models/Effective Practices

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