Please
join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources
(CCCOER) for a free and open webinar on how OER is being used to design
and offer low-cost competency-based certificates and degrees.
Competency-based degrees can offer a shorter path to a degree because
students advance as soon as they master the subject matter. Students
work at their own pace and move as far and fast as their proven
knowledge takes them. With competencies that are clearly aligned to
career skills, graduates are more employable.
Washington community colleges launched their first competency based
degree with an online business transfer degree that uses only open
educational resources and no commercial textbooks. The program has been
in pilot mode at single college since summer 2015 but will be expanding
to 7 more colleges in Winter 2016. Students in this particular
competency-based program are taught by highly qualified instructors and
receive guidance from completion coaches.
Lord Fairfax Community College (LFCC) launched competency-based
education this fall with their Knowledge to Work program. With approval
from its accrediting agency, the Southern Association of Colleges and
Schools Commission on Colleges, LFCC becomes the first institution in
the region to offer 100% direct assessment, competency-based education.
Direct assessment does not involve counting hours in the classroom.
Instead, the focus shifts to documenting learning and the attainment of
competencies using OER and low cost curriculum which makes college both
more affordable and accelerated.
Date: Wed, December 2,
Time: 10 am PST, 1:00 pm EST
Featured Speakers:
- Mark Jenkins, Director of eLearning & Open Education, State Board of Community and Technical Colleges, Washington State
- Kiri Johnson, Digital Librarian, Knowledge to Work, Lord Fairfax Community College, Virginia
Participant Login Information:
No pre-registration is necessary. Please use the link below on the day of the webinar to login and listen.
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