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Calls from Washington for streamlined regulation and emerging models | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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more of online “innovations” like competency-based education.
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reauthorization of the Higher Education Act might shake out.
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flow of federal financial aid to a wide range of course providers, some of which look nothing like colleges.
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give state regulators a new option to either act as accreditors or create their own accreditation systems.
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“States could accredit online courses, or hybrid models with elements on- and off-campus.”
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any new money for those emerging models would likely come out of the coffers of traditional colleges.
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cut back on red tape that prevents colleges from experimenting with ways to cut prices and boost student learning.
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decentralized, more streamlined form of accreditation.
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regional accreditors are doing a fairly good job. They are under enormous pressure to keep “bad actors” at bay while also encouraging experimentation. And he said accreditors usually get it right.
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Andrew Kelly, however, likes Lee’s idea. Kelly, who is director of the American Enterprise Institute’s Center on Higher Education Reform, said it would create a credible alternative to the existing accreditation system, which the bill would leave intact.
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eliminating bureaucracy in higher education regulation is a top priority
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“Accreditation could also be available to specialized programs, individual courses, apprenticeships, professional credentialing and even competency-based tests,”
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“The gateway to education reform is education oversight reform,”
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broad, bipartisan agreement that federal aid policies have not kept pace with new approaches to higher education.
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expansion of competency-based education. And he said the federal rules governing financial aid make it hard for colleges to go big with those programs.
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accreditors is that they favor the status quo, in part because they are membership organizations of academics that essentially practice self-regulation.
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“The technology has reached the point where it really can improve learning,” he said, adding that “it can lower the costs.”
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changes to the existing accreditation system that might make it easier for competency-based and other emerging forms of online education to spread.
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offering competency-based degrees through a process called direct assessment, which is completely de-coupled from the credit-hour standard.
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