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Kentucky's Learn on Demand program reaches out to working adults with competency-based, self-paced online courses. (Inside Higher Ed 08/06/12)

Provides a primer on competency-based education in postsecondary education; introduces four elements of disruptive innovation theory and how they could apply to education initiatives; and offers recommendations for policymakers on how to facilitate disruptive innovation to transform higher education. (Center for American Progress, June 2012)

Describe four mechanisms that allow students to convert or exchange their college credits and prior learning assessment for academic credit. These include: articulation agreements; prior learning assessments; services to support transfer and prior learning; competency-based programs. Offers recommendations for policymakers.

Story in Chronical about online course provider that is providing more competency based assessments and instruction, instead of degrees. Students get portfolio of skills instead

Web page for Governor Manchin's Initiative for the National Governors Association on challenging states to adopt common metrics for measuring college completion rates in their state

Paper outlining the metrics that NGA is advocating states to adopt for tracking college completion

Report that sets ambitious goals to increase the college completion rates and decrease achievement gaps at California Community Colleges

New research study by Paul Attewell identifying reasons for noncompletion from higher education. Published in American Educational Research Journal.

To try to provide a shared understanding of what college degrees mean - but without turning that into a government or other mandate - the Lumina Foundation for Education is releasing a draft of its Degree Qualifications Profile. The profile is intended to establish what the recipients of associate, bachelor's and master's degrees should know and be able to do. (Inside Higher Ed, 01/25/11)

The profile is a framework for defining and ultimately measuring the general knowledge and skills that individual students need to acquire in order to earn degrees at various levels, such as associate, bachelor's and master's degrees. (Lumina Foundation for Education, January 2011)