Kaplan University, since quite a while ago perceived as a pioneer in advanced education development, today declared that it has gotten endorsement from its provincial accreditor, the Higher Learning Commission (HLC), to start offering competency-based instruction for two degree offerings—Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Bachelor of Science in Information Technology (IT).
These are the initial two degree programs organized around another competency-based model at Kaplan University.
Competency-based instruction (CBE) moves far from the conventional classroom seat time position towards a more adaptable structure that is more self-managed, permitting understudies to advance as they show authority of scholarly substance with the related capabilities businesses need. Significantly, CBE empowers understudies to learn and gain work centered aptitudes paying little heed to time or where learning happens.
"A huge measure of insightful diligent work goes into changing over a customary credit-hour course demonstrate into a competency-based one," said Dr. Betty Vandenbosch, President of Kaplan University. In our one of a kind way to deal with CBE, which we expect will spare our understudies both time and cash while setting them up for satisfying professions in business and IT, the whole projects are separated into one-credit competency courses. Understudies chip away at various one-credit courses, in arrangement, inside every term with the assistance of effectively drew in employees. This gives clear course, a fitting structure, and extra adaptability for our understudies."
"This is another vital stride forward on our decade long proceeding with trip with competency-based training, which promotes guarantee our graduates and their managers that they are employment prepared on the very first moment," said Dr. Tom Boyd, Dean of Kaplan University's School of Business and Information Technology.
Kaplan University started taking a shot at competency-based methodologies over 10 years prior.
By 2009, Kaplan University had recognized particular skills that understudies must ace in all its general training courses, getting to be one of the main colleges.
In 2010, the University presented appraisals that measure understudies' authority obviously level evaluations and started separating courses into modules.
Kaplan University was chosen in 2014 to take an interest in the Department of Education's Experimental Sites Initiative (ESI) which empowered it to move still further down a competency-based way.
In 2015, Kaplan University got to be one of the principal organizations to begin furnishing its understudies with customized competency reports that survey and archive an understudy's aptitude and information exhibited all through his or her program(s) of learn at the University.
About Kaplan University
Kaplan University offers an alternate school of thought for advanced education. It endeavors to help grown-up understudies open their ability by giving a commonsense, understudy focused training that sets them up for professions in a portion of the quickest developing commercial enterprises. The University, which has its principle grounds in Davenport, Iowa, and its central station in Chicago, is certify by The Higher Learning Commission. Kaplan University serves around 37,000 online and grounds based understudies. The University has 14 grounds in Iowa, Indiana, Nebraska, Maryland, Maine, Missouri and Wisconsin, and a Kaplan University Learning Center in Maryland.
Kaplan University is a piece of Kaplan Higher Education LLC and Kaplan, Inc., which serves more than 1.2 million understudies universally every year through its variety of advanced education, test arrangement, proficient instruction, English-dialect preparing, college planning, and K-12 offerings to people, foundations, and organizations. Kaplan has operations in more than 30 nations, utilizes more than 19,000 full-and low maintenance experts, and keeps up connections and associations with more than 1,000 school regions, universities, and colleges, and more than 2,600 partnerships and organizations. Kaplan is an auxiliary of Graham Holdings Company (GHC) and its biggest division.
These are the initial two degree programs organized around another competency-based model at Kaplan University.
Competency-based instruction (CBE) moves far from the conventional classroom seat time position towards a more adaptable structure that is more self-managed, permitting understudies to advance as they show authority of scholarly substance with the related capabilities businesses need. Significantly, CBE empowers understudies to learn and gain work centered aptitudes paying little heed to time or where learning happens.
"A huge measure of insightful diligent work goes into changing over a customary credit-hour course demonstrate into a competency-based one," said Dr. Betty Vandenbosch, President of Kaplan University. In our one of a kind way to deal with CBE, which we expect will spare our understudies both time and cash while setting them up for satisfying professions in business and IT, the whole projects are separated into one-credit competency courses. Understudies chip away at various one-credit courses, in arrangement, inside every term with the assistance of effectively drew in employees. This gives clear course, a fitting structure, and extra adaptability for our understudies."
"This is another vital stride forward on our decade long proceeding with trip with competency-based training, which promotes guarantee our graduates and their managers that they are employment prepared on the very first moment," said Dr. Tom Boyd, Dean of Kaplan University's School of Business and Information Technology.
Kaplan University started taking a shot at competency-based methodologies over 10 years prior.
By 2009, Kaplan University had recognized particular skills that understudies must ace in all its general training courses, getting to be one of the main colleges.
In 2010, the University presented appraisals that measure understudies' authority obviously level evaluations and started separating courses into modules.
Kaplan University was chosen in 2014 to take an interest in the Department of Education's Experimental Sites Initiative (ESI) which empowered it to move still further down a competency-based way.
In 2015, Kaplan University got to be one of the principal organizations to begin furnishing its understudies with customized competency reports that survey and archive an understudy's aptitude and information exhibited all through his or her program(s) of learn at the University.
About Kaplan University
Kaplan University offers an alternate school of thought for advanced education. It endeavors to help grown-up understudies open their ability by giving a commonsense, understudy focused training that sets them up for professions in a portion of the quickest developing commercial enterprises. The University, which has its principle grounds in Davenport, Iowa, and its central station in Chicago, is certify by The Higher Learning Commission. Kaplan University serves around 37,000 online and grounds based understudies. The University has 14 grounds in Iowa, Indiana, Nebraska, Maryland, Maine, Missouri and Wisconsin, and a Kaplan University Learning Center in Maryland.
Kaplan University is a piece of Kaplan Higher Education LLC and Kaplan, Inc., which serves more than 1.2 million understudies universally every year through its variety of advanced education, test arrangement, proficient instruction, English-dialect preparing, college planning, and K-12 offerings to people, foundations, and organizations. Kaplan has operations in more than 30 nations, utilizes more than 19,000 full-and low maintenance experts, and keeps up connections and associations with more than 1,000 school regions, universities, and colleges, and more than 2,600 partnerships and organizations. Kaplan is an auxiliary of Graham Holdings Company (GHC) and its biggest division.
