Higher
education can be successfully organized on a basis other than time.
Federal
policy should encourage traditional institutions to think differently about how
they deliver and award credit for learning and also create a space for
nontraditional institutions and organizations to prove their ability to help
students achieve real, objectively verified learning outcomes.
But competency-based higher education remains relatively
uncharted territory. In an era when college degrees are simultaneously becoming
more important and more expensive, students and taxpayers can no longer afford
to pay for time and little or no evidence of learning.
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