The Renewal of Competency-Based Education: A Review of the Literature

Diane M. Burnette

71 citations0/0 files storedThe Journal of Continuing Higher Education

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Higher Education Learning Practices Higher Education Research Studies Education and Public Policy

Abstract

Although competency-based education (CBE) has existed since the early 1970s adult-focused degree programs, interest in CBE has spiked in recent years due to the increased attention on higher education affordability and accountability. This article reviews the extant literature on CBE to address the following questions: (a) What are the definitions of CBE? (b) What are the characteristics of contemporary CBE programs? (c) What are the various CBE programmatic models? (d) What challenges are confronted by institutions seeking to implement CBE programs? (e) What are the key factors in planning CBE frameworks? The review of literature brings to light some of the issues facing adoption of CBE.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 71 citations exist upstream.

References

2004Assessing Student Learning: A Common Sense Guide 2001Competency‐Based Learning Models: A Necessary Future 2010The 'new paradigm' of outcomes-based education in perspective

Cited by

2020Disciplinary contextualisation of transversal competence in Finnish local curricula: the case of multiliteracy, mathematics, and social studies 2019Fostering of Entrepreneurship Competencies and Entrepreneurial Intentions in a Weak Ecosystem

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.