Competency Based Education

Members:

Christopher Soran, Steve Gance, Mark Carbon, Marty Heilstedt, Jerry Lewis, Kathy Chatfield

IC Workplan

Objective:

1.3 Improve effective strategies to support alternative pathways to career goals.

Strategy:

1.3b. Improve effective strategies for delivery of competency-based education (CBE) (registration, financial aid, seat time to credit).

Expected Outcome/Benchmark:

1.3b. Recommendations from ELC with specific action items for consideration by IC.

Deliverable: Report to IC that identifies issues, challenges, and strategies that support the implementation and delivery of CBE.

Report

• *NEW* Here is the Google Doc where we will write our report.

• • Outline

    • What is CBE and how does it work?

      • Includes definitions and explanations of how programs function. 

      • Includes information about successful CBE programs. 

      • Includes information on registration, financial aid, seat time to credit. 

    • What is the status of CBE at WA CTCs?

      • Includes Results of Survey. 

      • Includes Kathy’s Interviews. 

      • Includes known CBE programs. 

    • Lessons Learned from CBE Business DTA

      • Includes information from Mark Jenkins and Melissa (from CBC).

      • Includes short piece from Christopher that includes ctcLink challenges. 

    • Frame out the Innovation.  

    • What is the future of CBE?

Deprecated Report info:

• Here is the Google Doc where we have our first draft that we will no longer be using as our report to IC.

• The report was going to have 3 parts:

  • Gains

  • Gaps

  • Goals

Resources for Report

• CBE Requirements for ctcLink

Notes from Winter 2017 IC Meeting, as it relates to CBE

• Mary at Olympic said that she didn’t consider prof tech when she filled out the survey.  Some people may include it and others may not.  Not all prof tech is CBE.  We’ll just see what the survey results are.

• The ctcLink continuing ed tool is no good and needs to be replaced. 

  • Mark Jenkins had the idea to see if CBE could be a requirement of the tool. This could possibly address the ctcLink issue. IC voted to recommend an RFP, but it's possible there is still time to comment on the requirements.  WAC felt the scope was too broad and had narrowed the scope of requirements, but it doesn't preclude us from joining that conversation

• Still comes back to the question of what is CBE.  

• We can better define what it is and how it works.

• We need to help IC “frame out the innovation”.

• Mark Jenkins - Think about a platform that would work for policies and technical solutions no matter what school you were from.  Would be good for workforce.   Also, let’s work together since he and Melissa from CBC are writing a “Lessons Learned” paper on the CBE Business DTA program.

• Policy issue - if students complete more classes faster, would they pay more?

• What kind of flexibility do we need to define credits or financial aid?