Human resources management in small businesses can be highly structured as in large organizations, or less structured to permit flexibility in workforce planning, staffing and HR control over the ...

Competency-based education is slowly catching on, with the help of policies that give permission for schools in every state to adopt it. But the learning model—a series of non-traditional approaches ...

How do you stay relevant? That's the question many teachers ask themselves about their profession. They all want to be able to impart the skills required for each grade in the school career.

Competency-based education (CBE) turns the traditional approach on its head. First, instead of everyone getting the same lecture, CBE is about adapting the delivery of knowledge to the learner’s own ...

A class at Alabama’s Southern Union State Community College. The state’s community colleges are an important element in its rethinking of how education connects with career pathways. (Photo: Southern ...

Some call for educational innovation. Others make it happen. No educational innovators, I suspect, have had a greater impact than Paul LeBlanc of Southern New Hampshire University or Scott Pulsipher ...

The education field is regularly plagued by the need for common definitions as new practices emerge. As we’ve seen with personalized learning, ambiguous terms for ambitious ideas can create widespread ...

Andrea Miranda didn’t think traditional four-year college was in her future when she graduated from high school in Massachusetts in 2010. It was expensive, especially compared with free college in ...

Covid-19 has become the singular priority of our health care delivery system — disrupting patient care processes, halting many research activities, and profoundly affecting medical education. Graduate ...

COVID-19 has forced educators to reexamine some of their core practices, and in some cases, circumvent them altogether. Measuring learning by how much time students spend in a classroom could be next ...

Competency-based education has spread slower than many expected, particularly given hype in recent years about its approach, which emphasizes what students know and can do, tends to be more focused on ...

The past few weeks sparked several discussions about skills-based organizations, or SBOs, ranging from enthusiastic support to skeptical pushback. Some questioned the wisdom of embarking on this path ...