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  1. Roadblocks to Creating a Competency-Based Program

    Competency-based education is such an intuitive and appealing concept that once we consider it, we start wondering, “Why did we wait so long?” In competency-based education, students earn a degree upon demonstrating competency in their chosen field of study rather than upon spending...

  2. Badges of Competence

    D.School professor Tina Seelig1 touts the power of seemingly trivial questions in opening our horizons and bringing to light unquestioned assumptions. Educational reformer Grant Wiggins2 illustrates this when he asks “What is the goal of education?” Is the aim really knowledge,...