Giving Compass' Take:

• Getting Smart offers a list of effective competency-based programs that have been successful in both corporate and higher education settings. 

• How do competency-based education programs interact with other learning styles such as social-emotional or blended learning?

• Read about helpful tools that advance competency-based education programs. 

We’ve been looking into what schools, districts, networks, and impact organizations are doing to accelerate progress toward an effective CBE system, and in July we will release a full publication highlighting our research and analysis. In the meantime, we have assembled a series of initial lists of positive examples in various areas.

The initiatives highlighted below are interesting and forward-leaning examples of ways that employers and higher education providers are designing competency-based programs.

Corporate Examples

  • Bite-Sized Units for Corporate learning.
  • Hire When Ready Skills Verification.
  • Degreed.
  • Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).
  • Digital Marketing Certificate.

Higher Education Examples

  • College for America provides applied and flexible learning for working adults. Southern New Hampshire University’s College for America provides accessible, affordable, achievable higher education, specifically targeting underprepared and low-income working adults.
  • Guild Education recognizes prior learning and builds customized pathways.
  • Minerva is a super selective competency-based college.
  • Relay Graduate School of Education and Woodrow Wilson Academy are both examples of competency-based graduate schools of education targeted towards teachers and school leaders.

Read the full article about competency-based programs by Getting Smart