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Innovating in Policy and Practice:
Realizing the Potential of Competency-
Based Learning and Badges
Dr. Deborah Everhart
Director of Solutions Strategy
Blackboard
@ariadne4444
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Overview
• Competency based learning defined
• Research & enhancing the dialogue
•
American Council on Education/Blackboardjoint research collaboration
• Results
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Definitions, dimensions, and descriptions• Analysis of currency of higher education
• Realizing the potential
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What is Competency Based Learning?
“Transitioning away from seat time, in favor of a
structure that creates flexibility, allows students
to progress as they demonstrate mastery of
academic content, regardless of time, place, orpace of learning. Competency-based strategies
provide flexibility in the way that credit can be
earned or awarded, and provide students with
personalized learning opportunities.”
-U.S. Dept. of Education
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Potential benefits of competency based learning
• Focus on learning outcomes• Learning activities and assessments aligned to
outcomes
• Credit for prior and experiential learning
• Motivated and engaged students
• Efficient, flexible, and lower-cost credentials
• Increased student retention and completion rates
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Lifelong learners’ portable evidence of learning• Employers’ visibility into graduates’ competencies
• Outcomes-based frameworks for continuous
improvement
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Research
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American Council on Education and Blackboard
Mutual interest in:
• Credit for prior learning and credit mobility
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Serving post-traditional students• Digital badging
• Expanding CBE dialogue
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What’s in a name?
The need for definitions
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ACE-Blackboard collaboration outcomes
• Published “Clarifying
Competency Based EducationTerms: A Lexicon”
• Leadership roundtables with
CBE practitioners
• Blackboard blog series
• ACE publications
• Public Forum on Feb. 20
releasing research paper: “The
Currency of Higher Education:
Credits and Competencies”
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Clarifying competency-based
education terms
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Clarifying Competency Based Education Terms
• 94 terms defined
• 11 classifications
– Overview
– Competencies & Learning Outcomes
– Assessment Processes
– Evidence of Learning
– Credentials
– Badges
–Instructional and Supporting Roles
– Student Support
– Regulations & Accreditation
– Validation
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Competency definitions and frameworks Educational structures: Credentialing
Educational structures: Instructional
roles
Federal regulations and accreditation
requirements
Focus on institutions
and educational programs
Competency-Based Education (CBE)
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Learning processes Badges and micro-credentials
Portable evidence of learning
Focus on learners
and learning processes
Competency-Based Learning (CBL)
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Competency Occupational Skills
ONET
Learning Outcomes
Program Outcomes
Institutional Outcomes
Accreditation Standards
Focus on institutions
and educational programs
CBE Competency Definitions and Frameworks
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Credentials Certificates and Degrees
Stackable Credentials
Credit for Prior Learning
Focus on institutions
and educational programs
CBE Educational Structures: Credentialing
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Instructor Coach
Assessor
Advisor
Tutor
360 Help and Support
Focus on institutions
and educational programs
CBE Educational Structures: Instructional Roles
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Attendance
Credit Hour
Seat Time
Title IV
R2T4
Direct Assessment
Experimental Sites
Accreditation
Focus on institutions
and educational programs
CBE Federal Regulations and Accreditation Requirements
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Differentiated Learning
Authentic Assessment
Project-Based Learning
Mastery
Proficiency
Levelling Up
Focus on learnersand learning processes
CBL Learning Processes
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Badges
Micro-credentials
OBI
Portable Evidence of Learning
Badge Backpack Portfolio
Profile
Focus on learnersand learning processes
CBL Badges and Portable Evidence of Learning
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Digital Badges
Badges are a form ofcredential signifying a
person’s achievement at
some level of competency.
Badges are issued byorganizations to individuals
who then use their badges as
representations of
accomplishment or
achievement .
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The Currency of Higher Education:Credits and Competencies
ACE/Blackboard research findings to be released Feb. 20
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Credit-hour processes are likely to remain deeply
embedded in post-secondary systems for some time,
but there is ample opportunity for innovation withcompetencies as a parallel and complementary
currency.
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Credits and competencies both reflect importantstructures of value for diverse stakeholders:
• government agencies
• educational leaders and administrators
• faculty
• assessors
•
students• employers
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Competencies provide representations of learning
outcomes that are more flexible and transparent
than credits.
Competencies are more prone to change over time
than the fixed-unit representation of credit hours.
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Implementing CBE practices in credit-hour
environments is complex, but CBE faces fewer
barriers and can more rapidly provide benefits tolarge numbers of students when outcomes-based
approaches are compatible with credit-hour
systems and processes.
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Students need to know how they can evaluate the
quality of a CBE programs, but little structure iscurrently available to help students in this regard.
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Employers are key stakeholders both in the
definition of CBE credentials and in thecredentials’ marketability.
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Badges and other micro-credentials can be useful
bearers of competencies achieved, and as
employers begin to accept their value, they canbecome part of the framework for competency
exchange value.
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Thank you!
Contact the researchers:Deb Seymour (ACE) [email protected]
Karen Yoshino (Bb) [email protected]
Deb Everhart (Bb) @Ariadne4444
American Council on Education:http://www.acenet.edu/
CBE Lexicon, Research Paper, and Blogs:http://blog.blackboard.com/