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evaluating rules for competency-based education and the outsourcing of academic programs to nonaccredited providers

ccreditors have clamored for the department to get rid of the credit-hour definition, complaining it is difficult for them to track. Officials from some colleges, particularly those offering competency-based programs, have argued that the standard makes it difficult to comply with federal aid requirements.

The credit hour probably interferes with innovation almost more than anything

biggest providers of nontraditional education today -- online colleges -- have far more data on faculty instruction and student engagement than any other type of institution. And accreditors, she said, would come up with new ways to evaluate academic workloads based on that data.

department will propose that negotiators discuss federal rules for the outsourcing of portions of academic programs to nonaccredited or noncollege providers

Currently, no more than half of a program can be administered by an outside entity, such as an online program management (OPM) company

uild on lessons being learned from an Obama-era experiment to allow such partnerships to receive federal aid, dubbed the EQUIP program

e department wants to put more of an onus on colleges to justify not taking transfer credit,