Video: 3 Key Aspects of CBE: Standards, Institutions, and Employers
The promise of competency-based education is still in its infancy. Hear from experts about three key aspects of making it work.
Michelle Weise
Biography
Dr. Michelle R. Weise is the Executive Director of Sandbox Collaborative, the research and development arm of strategy and innovation at Southern New Hampshire University. Michelle'€™s work in fostering innovation is an extension of her prior work as the Senior Research Fellow in higher education at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation. Her book, Hire Education: Mastery, Modularization, and the Workforce Revolution, co-authored with Clayton Christensen, describes the disruptive potential of online competency-based education aligned to workforce needs. Michelle's commentaries and research have been featured in The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Boston Globe, Inside HigherEd, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and PBS Newshour. She has also served as the Vice President of Academic Affairs for Fidelis Education and taught at Skidmore College and Stanford University. Michelle is a former Fulbright Scholar and graduate of Harvard and Stanford.EDUCAUSE Publications
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Online Education behind Bars
In early October in New York, three talented and motivated prison inmates from the Bard Prison Initiative inspired the nation by defeating Harvard University’s debate team on the topic of public education for undocumented students. The inmates’ success served as the perfect punctuation mark for the September 30th deadline for institutions to apply for Pell for Prisoners.
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Got Skills? Why Online Competency-Based Education Is the Disruptive Innovation for Higher Education
The National Center for Education Statistics projects that by 2020, 42 percent of all college students will be 25 years of age or older.3
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