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Competency-based education has fans, detractors – Western Governors among schools offering programs

Mary Carney spent just two years and $10,000 to earn both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in nursing, then landed a job paying 65 percent more than her old job.

She did it at Western Governors University http://www.wgu.edu/ , an online-only college that came to Indiana in 2010 using a concept called competency-based education.

With Indiana and the nation as a whole trying desperately to boost the numbers of adults with postsecondary degrees, without bankrupting either public coffers or private bank accounts, the pace and parsimony of WGU’s competency-based model may be a recipe made to order.

By J.K. Wall

Full Story: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765618631/Competency-based-education-has-fans-detractors.html

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