Healthcare for older adults requires a knowledgeable professional workforce. Yet less than one percent of health professionals are certified in geriatrics. This paper describes initiatives to assure ...

This article is part of the collection: Real Life Learning: An Up Close Look at Competency-Based Education. In Thomas County, Georgia, students who have struggled in the mainstream have found a home ...

Although competency-based education is not a new concept, the University of Texas System (UTS) is taking it to a new level with its recently launched "TEx," a mobile-first application designed by ...

When I compare my days at Harvard Medical School more than 50 years ago to the experience of medical students today, I’m struck by the tremendous change that has taken place. Today’s students are ...

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 ...

As more universities embrace competency-based education for students, some of them are looking at ways to offer a similar approach to faculty. In competency-based education, learners shoot for ...

TRAINING SUPERHEROES: At the iNACOL Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida, nonprofit The Learning Accelerator (TLA) and Yet Analytics announced the launch of a competency-based framework derived from ...