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Community-Based Learning: A Primer, Zeinab Bedri, Ruairí De Fréin, Geraldine Dowling Jan 2017

Community-Based Learning: A Primer, Zeinab Bedri, Ruairí De Fréin, Geraldine Dowling

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Employers are increasingly demanding graduates with industry-ready communication, decision-making, problem-solving, leadership, emotional intelligence and social ethics skills. Community-based learning (CBL) has been identified as a pedagogical approach which has tremendous potential to produce graduates with these attributes; its prominent role in the future of Ireland's third level landscape is outlined in the Irish National Strategy for Higher Education (Hunt, 2011). However, for many early-career lecturers, distilling the insights from the teaching and learning literature, and then producing a well-designed CBL module, can be an intimidating task. What is missing is a primer which presents the core ideas of CBL in …


An Integrated Approach To Competency-Based Learning & Assessment: Two Models At The School For New Learning, Depaul University, Catherine Marienau Jul 2015

An Integrated Approach To Competency-Based Learning & Assessment: Two Models At The School For New Learning, Depaul University, Catherine Marienau

SCPS Competency-based Education Publications and Presentations

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Memo To Ace Fellows, Susanne M. Dumbleton Ph.D., Russ Rogers Ph.D. Mar 2014

Memo To Ace Fellows, Susanne M. Dumbleton Ph.D., Russ Rogers Ph.D.

SCPS Competency-based Education Publications and Presentations

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Proposal For A New, Experimental, Unit Of Study At Depaul University, John T. Richardson, C.M. Jan 1971

Proposal For A New, Experimental, Unit Of Study At Depaul University, John T. Richardson, C.M.

SCPS Competency-based Education Publications and Presentations

Proposal for what became the School for New Learning at DePaul University, one of an early wave of experimental, competency-based programs for adult and "nontraditional" students.