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Jenny Lawrence; Lesley J. Morrell; Graham W. Scott – International Journal for Academic Development, 2024
The programme leader is crucial to the success of a higher education provider's educational portfolio. However, programme leader development is under-researched and is too often conceptualised in a negative way, as the solution to a problem. Here we adopt a positive approach by undertaking an Appreciative Inquiry with programme leaders to…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Higher Education, Instructional Leadership, Knowledge Management
Kevan, Jonathan Mark – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Competency-Based Education (CBE) is proposed as a model that can solve some of higher education's current challenges including the one size fits all approach to student learning. CBE targets this issue by focusing on a student autonomy and personalized learning approaches; however, successful implementation of this requires students have a level…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Higher Education, Models, Undergraduate Students
Mar Díaz-Millón – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2023
The term "transcreation" has become popular over the last decade in the language services industry. It has also gained traction in the creative industries. Previous research demonstrates there is an interest in introducing transcreation training in Translation and Interpreting studies, possibly as a result of its growing popularity in…
Descriptors: Delphi Technique, Translation, Second Languages, Language Processing
Latham, Nancy; Ernst, Johnna Darragh; Freeze, Tiffany; Bernoteit, Stephanie; White, Bradford – Stylus Publishing LLC, 2023
What if educational programs designed curriculum with the end in mind, teaching and assessing only the knowledge and skills necessary for success in the workplace and broader life applications? Competency-Based Education (CBE) provides an answer to questions such as this one that key stakeholders such as employers, learners, parents, and educators…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Performance Based Assessment, Case Studies, Curriculum Design
Soyka, Chantal; Schaper, Niclas; Bender, Elena; Striewe, Michael; Ullrich, Meike – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2023
Modeling is an integral part of many computing-related disciplines and thus also represents a curricular core component in computing education in tertiary education. Competence models in which modeling is integrated at least to some extent already exist in some of these disciplines. However, for the core component of graphical modeling, a…
Descriptors: Graphs, Models, Computer Science Education, Content Analysis
Köpsén, Johanna – Studies in Continuing Education, 2020
Access to, and participation in, higher education is expanding. Commonalities in the organisation of this expansion are distinctive vocational pathways, liberal marketisation and significant employer influence. However, whether this expanded access to higher education in vocational pathways is contributing to opportunities of social mobility for…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Vocational Education, Higher Education, Social Mobility
Saulnier, Bruce; Ceccucci, Wendy; Sendall, Patricia; Peslak, Alan – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2019
This paper invites Computer Information System (CIS) program stakeholders to consider several strategic issues. They include: Curriculum & Pedagogy, Business Model & Value Proposition, Increasingly Diverse Student Body, and Student Success & Completion. These strategic issues are those in which faculty have the ability to provide the…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Information Systems, Strategic Planning, Higher Education
Bezanilla, María José; García Olalla, Ana María; Paños Castro, Jessica; Poblete Ruiz, Manuel – Tuning Journal for Higher Education, 2019
Almost twenty years after the Bologna Declaration was signed, the extent to which universities are embracing competence-based learning is a topic of much interest. This article presents a comprehensive model for the analysis of the implementation of competence-based learning (CBL) in Higher Education. An extensive bibliographic review was carried…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Competency Based Education, Higher Education, Program Implementation
Andrade, Maureen Snow; Alden-Rivers, Bethany – Higher Education Pedagogies, 2019
Flexible learning increases access to higher education, particularly for traditionally undeserved students. First-time entrants, who may lack the cultural capital to be successful, may also be more likely to participate in flexible learning than traditional students, and particularly in online and blended courses. We posit that success for all…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Blended Learning, Competency Based Education, Open Educational Resources
Kellogg, Sara E. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the landscape of Competency-Based Education in institutions of higher education, and how these institutions have successfully implemented a new model into their existing structures. Interviews were conducted to explore the rationale, implementation strategies, and challenges at institutions…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Best Practices, Program Implementation, Educational Strategies
Horn, Michael B.; Dunagan, Alana – Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, 2018
This paper discusses the nature of higher education business models and how innovation can (or cannot) occur within those models. It explores the stories of educational institutions as they have tried to launch innovative practices, profiling Bellevue University (Nebraska) and Tiffin University (Ohio), schools that tried to build innovative online…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Higher Education
Horn, Michael B.; Dunagan, Alana – Education Next, 2018
With the cost of college soaring and the national six-year completion rate below 60 percent, the federal government's support for higher education faces heightened scrutiny. What kind of regulation and accountability should Congress impose on Washington's hefty funding of Pell grants and subsidized loans? As legislators turn their attention to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Finance, Accountability, Grants
Rata, Elizabeth – British Educational Research Journal, 2019
A theoretical model called 'Curriculum Design Coherence' (CDC) is described and justified. The model's purpose is to assist teachers in the compulsory and higher education sectors to design courses that can accommodate the complex and interdependent relationship between concepts and content and between knowledge and skills. Its intended usefulness…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Decision Making, Foreign Countries, Instructional Design
McIntyre-Hite, Lisa – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Currently, there is an increase in competency-based education programs in higher education institutions in response to student and employer needs. However, research is lacking on effective practices for developing competencies, assessments, and learning resources for these programs. The purpose of this qualitative Delphi study was to gather expert…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Higher Education, Delphi Technique, Educational Practices
Makhashova, Patima; Meirmanov, Asylbek; Zhunusbekov, Zhaxybek; Makasheva, Orynkul; Mirzaliyeva, Elmira; Ermuratova, Almagul; Sakenov, Janat – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The relevance of the topic revealed is caused by necessity to update the organization of professional activity for pedagogical higher education institution on a competence-based basis, creating conditions for developing the corresponding professional competences in students of creative pedagogical specialties. The paper addresses the structure,…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Creativity, Specialists, Higher Education