Competency Based Education, What, How & Who

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Competency Based Education
What, How & Who
A primer for institutions interested in
starting a CBE program

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INTRODUCTIONS
»Rebecca Jones, Senior Education
Consultant, specializing in Higher Ed
Rebecca Jones Consulting
»Dr. Wendi Prater, Assoc. Vice Chancellor
Lone Star College Online
»Dr. Mac Adkins, CEO/Founder
SmarterServices

POLL
»What is your school’s position in regards to CBE?
– We are currently providing a CBE program.
– We are in the planning stages of providing a CBE
program.
– We are considering offering a CBE program.
– What does CBE stand for?

Rebecca Jones
Senior Education Consultant

An introduction to Competency Based
Education (CBE)
Traditional Education Competency Based Education
Measures time Measures Learning
Credits – measures learning through
time spent in course
Competency Units – measuring
competency through valid assessment
Focused of the journey Focused on the destination
Prescribed days/times/weeks/semesters
to learn content
Flexible learning, learning at the
student’s pace
Traditional faculty model Disaggregated faculty model
Advisor role is to schedule courses and
advise on classes
High-touch advisor/mentor role that is
the student’s key point person through
entire experience

What Need Does It Fill?
Makes higher education more affordable and more
attainable to more people.
•Adult workers who entered the workforce but did not go to a traditional college
•Military
•Adults with families and full time jobs that want to further their education, but don’t feel like they
have the time
Caters to the millions of “non-traditional” students:
Shortens time to degree and cost of degree
substantially
Provides industry input to develop competencies-
competent graduates mean competent employees
Pace program when “life happens”

POLL
If you are developing a CBE program, are you developing it
1. As a standalone program
2. Offering 2 versions
3. I’m not sure

Is CBE right for everyone? It depends…
– Does or will your college offer just competency-based or
traditional as well?
• Having both options allows you to make the determination
with the student
– Will you have a tool to make this determination?
– Will you have different admissions criteria based on the
modality?
• If you only offer CBE as an option:
– How will you be able to tell that the student is CBE able?
– What is your target market?
– What will your criteria be to enter into such a program?

The Ideal CBE Student
Self
motivated
Computer
literate
Strong
support
system
Structured
and
organized
The ability to
know when
to ask for
help
Some
experience to
understand
value of CBE
right away

Implementing a CBE program at your
institution:
»Marketing
»Technology:
– Student Information System (SIS)
– Learning Management System (LMS)
– Customer Relationship System (CRM)
»Accreditation
»Applying for DOE Approval for Title IV
»Change Management/Communication within your
Institution

Dr. Wendi Prater
Lone Star College Online

Lone Star College Online Competency Based
Education Online Teaching Certification Program
» Goal - Enhance quality online and hybrid courses at Lone
Star College
» Lone Star College employs over 1,200 faculty members.
» Six (6) campuses in Houston TX, LSC-Jakarta (Jakarta,
Indonesia) and multiple centers in the Houston area.
» Self-paced fully online CBE online teaching certification
program.
» Annual faculty committee review of the program.
» Course Mentors and Faculty Access Competency Mastery.
» Faculty Advisor Mentors.
» Five (5) program tracks

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Online Teaching Certification

Dr. Mac Adkins
SmarterServices

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Tools
Tools Needed for a CBE Program

Using the Wrong Tool for the Job
“As a community, the products used to manage our
institutions and their teaching and learning processes are
all deeply rooted in a credit hour–based, term-based, and
course-based educational delivery model.”
Mark Leuba, Educause Review, October, 2015

You Are Not Alone Out There
» Technical Interoperability Pilot (TIP) project
– Competency-Based Education Network (CBEN)
– IMS Global Learning Consortium
– Roadmap for effective IT support for CBE
» The project's origin dates to the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference in
October 2014 and a meeting between the C-BEN Business Process and
Systems Committee (BPS) and a group of five product vendors to discuss
the lack of systems support for CBE.
» The BPS committee focused on operationalizing CBE best practices in
member institutions, at scale, and software systems are a critical
component of that work.
» Collaborative project of 35 institutions and 14 vendors.

Systems that Need Adapting for CBE
Programs
» Learning Management Systems
» Customer Relationship Management Systems
» Student Information Systems
» Financial Aid Delivery Systems
» Curriculum Management
» Student Success (Advising, Tutoring, etc.)
» Assessment Tools
» Teaching & Learning Tools
» Instructional Materials
» ePortfolio Tools
» Data Repositories

TIP Survey on Degree of Customization
Needed
The survey queried the degree of customization for each application category on a
scale ranging from little or no customization (level 1) to highly customized (level 5).
Teaching & Learning Tools 3.50
Instructional Materials 3.45
Assessment Tools 3.44
Student Relationship Management 3.33
Data Repository 3.32
Student Success 3.17
Learning Mangement System 3.09
Curriculum Management 3.05
ePortfolio 2.94
Financial Aid 2.92
Student Information System 2.87

Policy and Procedure Updates
»Tuition Rates - In some CBE programs students pay for a
block of time, not per credit hour.
»Teaching Load – How does mentoring/assessing a CBE
student factor in to teaching load?
»Student Fees - Applicable or not
»Admission’s Criteria?
»What else?

Learner Readiness
» Relevant prior experience
» Self regulation
» Availability of time
» Reflective attributes
» Technology skills
» Motivation
» Support
» CBE program knowledge
» Educational background
» Financial assistance
» Action attributes
» Academic skills
» Blog Series- http://www.smarterservices.com/blog/program-knowledge-key-
for-cbe/

CBE Learner Readiness Indicator
»200+ Item Pool
»Authored by eight Subject Matter Experts
»Variable Duration
»Powered by the SmarterMeasure™ Assessment Engine

Two Closing Thoughts in Support of CBE
»“D” is for “Done.”
»Origin of the Carnegie Unit

Resources
» http://er.educause.edu/articles/2015/10/competency-based-
education-technology-challenges-and-opportunities
» http://www.wpr.org/uw-flex-program-sees-800-students-26-
graduates-2-5-years-after-launch
» SmarterServices CBE BLOG series -
http://www.smarterservices.com/blog/program-knowledge-key-
for-cbe/
» http://RebeccaJonesConsulting.com

Q&A – Contact
»Rebecca Jones – rajones@rebeccajonesconsulting.com
– https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-jones-54478633
»Dr. Wendi Prater – Wendi.C.Prater@lonestar.edu
– https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendi-prater-79764810
»Dr. Mac Adkins – mac@smarterservices.com
– https://www.linkedin.com/in/macadkins
»Next Steps

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