CBE Business DTA Pilot
October 2014
Competency-Based Program
• Students must demonstrate mastery of
explicit competencies to receive credit
• Students receive constant support
based on their individual learning needs
• Learning, not time, is the determining
factor
(Adapted from Christensen Institute)
The Goal
• A Business Transfer Degree
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Competency based
Completely online
Openly licensed
Six-month term with multiple start dates
Full time equivalent tuition ($2667 plus fees)
Students work at their own pace, completing as
many credits as they are able during each term
– Available January 2015
Pilot Colleges
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Columbia Basin—lead
Bellevue
Centralia
Everett
Green River
Olympic
Pierce Colleges (2)
Tacoma
Why?
• Reduced population growth in 15-19 year
olds in the next 10 years
• Increased growth in 20-44 year olds
• Almost 1 million Washingtonians have some
college, no degree
SBCTC Legislative Presentation, Jan. 2014
https://app.leg.wa.gov/CMD/Handler.ashx?MethodName=getdocu
mentcontent&documentId=EDi-X3rydFI&att=false
The History
Western Governors University supported
colleges in developing CBE certificate programs
• Spokane Falls
• Edmonds
• Columbia Basin
• Bellevue
• System work group developed a plan endorsed by
WACTC (system presidents) March 2014
The Elements
• Students with some college or work
experience
• “Intrusive” advisors at each college
• Completion coaches
– Hired by Columbia Basin for the pilot
consortium)
• Disciplinary faculty who teach and assess
– Hired by Columbia Basin for the pilot
consortium
First Faculty Cohort
• Four full-time faculty
– English
– Math
– Accounting
– Economics and Business Law
First Faculty Cohort
• Six adjunct faculty
– Sociology
– Political Science
– Geology
– Biology
– Public Speaking
– Art
18 Courses
• Work group chose high-enrollment
courses that meet the distribution
requirements
• Courses will be transcribed as regular
credits and use open content
• Curriculum and competencies will be
mapped by system faculty
Lumen Learning
• Leaders in open educational resources
and in CBE
– Worked with system colleges in the past
• Building openly licensed courses and
adaptive assessments
• http://lumenlearning.com
System Assets
• Strong transfer agreements
• Shared course system (WAOL)
• Shared learning management system
(Canvas)
• Common elearning tools
• Western eTutoring Consortium
• AskWA
Student Experience
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Application process
Orientation
Completion coach
Faculty engagement
Adaptive testing
Authentic assessment
– Grades: A, B, and Incomplete
Why pilot as a system?
• Share initial development costs
• Share staffing to support students who
work at their own pace
• Students belong to the college where
they enroll
• All faculty for the pilot will be hired at
Columbia Basin College
Resources on CBE
• Bloom, Benjamin (1984). “The 2 Sigma Problem: The
Search for Methods of Group Instruction as Effective
as One-to-One Tutoring.” Educational Researcher,
13:6 (4-16)
• CBEN http://www.cbenetwork.org/competencybased-education/
• CAEL http://www.cael.org/what-we-do/competencybased-education
• U of Wisconsin: http://flex.wisconsin.edu/
Find Out More
• Blog: http://cbewa.org
• Listserv:
http://lists.ctc.edu/mailman/listinfo/cbe
Questions?
Connie Broughton
cbroughton@sbctc.edu
Cathy Clary
cclary@columbiabasin.edu