competency-based education

Negotiation games: applying experimental economics in the classroom

Negotiation games in the classroom are a very useful tool for the formation of citizenship competencies.

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Which competencies are most in demand among employers around the world?

Universities should include soft skills in their programs as employers around the world give more and more importance to these abilities.

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Ethics and engineering education, a necessary partnership

The role of professors in the teaching of engineering is fundamental to influence the professional and ethical performance of students who will work in this ...

How can student competencies be assessed in an electronics course?

A new method of evaluating the disciplinary competences for the electronics class aims to link theory and practice. This method continually evaluates the knowledge and ...

How to use the case method in competency-based education model?

Students need to understand the problem fully, that is, instead of just reading a case, they are presented with a complex situation with interesting questions ...

Reading competency and historical research

With the aim of improving reading and writing, fundamental competences that are evaluated by the OECD and the PLANEA test, a group of teachers of ...

Southern New Hampshire University launches competency-based Master’s Graduate Degree in online teaching

The program will consist of training modules and graduate-level micro-credential programs which can stack into a full master’s degree in education with a focus on ...

Financial Laboratories, Complementing Education

As part of the implementation of a competency-based model, financial laboratories offer several benefits for learning. Teachers can complement their practice by encouraging students to ...

Back to Basics: prioritizing teaching and its foundations over technology

With students eager to learn how to use and apply technology, and with the aim of providing them with the practice they need, we run ...

National University launches tailored educational support system

National University is launching a new project that will combine personalized learning, adaptive learning, competency-based learning and predictive analytics to identify new educational models to ...

Southern New Hampshire University launches first phase of initiative for refugees

Southern New Hampshire University announced that it received $10 million from a group of anonymous donors to expand its refugee education program. The funds will ...

The Assessment Perspective

Is the assessment process formative? How can we make an objective, fair, reliable and valid assessment, one that serves student development and education?

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