Thu, 01/14/2021
LAWRENCE — In a rapidly evolving economy with ever-shifting workforce demands, how can universities, businesses and students better meet each other’s needs? There’s a map for that.
Or there will be soon, thanks to experts at the University of Kansas Achievement & Assessment Institute who this week launched the Center for Certification & Competency-Based Education, or C3BE, for short.
The center will develop a framework to gather information about the knowledge, skills and dispositions that employers desire from workers in particular fields; to assess the competencies that learners gain through university coursework and other experiences; and to validate that learners have mastered certain competencies so businesses can be confident that employees will be successful in their jobs. The center will build upon the institute’s previous work using learning maps as an organizational structure that charts a course toward a desired outcome.