Competency-based education is in vogue — even though most people have never heard of it, and those who have can't always agree on what it is. A report out today from the American Enterprise Institute ...

Educators all over the world are thinking creatively about ways to transform the traditional education system into an experience that will propel students forward into the world ready to take on its ...

In my time at McKinsey, one of the associate partners once said, “Our client may have the knowledge, but we have the skill — specifically, the problem-solving skill — to overcome the knowledge barrier ...

"I went to a four-year university." "That job requires a one-year certificate." "It's a two-semester course." "She's a fifth-year senior." What do these expressions have in common? They use time as ...

Competency-based education (CBE), in which credit is provided on the basis of student learning rather than credit or clock hours, is starting to gain traction with educators and policymakers. CBE ...

When the pandemic turned every bedroom, living room, and community center into a classroom, a fundamental shift occurred in what constitutes evidence of learning. No longer able to comfortably walk ...

Competency-based interviews have long been considered a gold standard in hiring, focusing on skills, abilities and behavioral traits rather than solely on resumes. However, with today's diverse, ...

AWS has unveiled a new AI Competency that focuses on agentic AI, offering rich benefits to partners that achieve the new competency, including funding and AWS resources. “In a noisy AI market, ...