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Monday, March 30, 2015
Competency-Based Education: A Framework for Measuring Quality Courses - Jackie Krause, Laura Portolese Dias, Chris Schedler; OJDLA
The growth of competency-based education in an online environment requires the development and measurement of quality competency-based courses. While quality measures for online courses have been developed and standardized, they do not directly align with emerging best practices and principles in the design of quality competency-based online courses. The purpose of this paper is to provide background and research for a proposed rubric to measure quality in competency-based online courses.
http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/spring181/krause_dias_schedler181.html