{"id":40456,"date":"2013-06-05T17:27:46","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T21:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=40456"},"modified":"2013-06-05T17:29:48","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T21:29:48","slug":"northern-arizona-wins-regional-accreditors-approval-for-personalized-learning-program-millichap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/06\/05\/northern-arizona-wins-regional-accreditors-approval-for-personalized-learning-program-millichap\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Arizona wins regional accreditor\u2019s approval for personalized learning program [Millichap]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/nextgenlearning.org\/blog\/northern-arizona-wins-regional-accreditor%E2%80%99s-approval-personalized-learning-program\" target=\"_blank\">Northern Arizona wins regional accreditor\u2019s approval for personalized learning program<\/a> &#8211;<\/strong>&#8211; from nextgenlearning.org by Nancy Millichap<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt (<span style=\"color: #800000;\">emphasis DSC)<\/span>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It\u2019s all systems go, at last: Northern Arizona University, one of the ten institutions presently developing <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/net.educause.edu\/ir\/library\/pdf\/NG1233.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">breakthrough degree programs<\/a><\/strong> with NGLC support, recently got the green light to start enrolling students in their Personalized Learning program. The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (HLC), NAU\u2019s regional accreditor, <span style=\"color: #800000;\">approved their application to offer a<strong> competency-based degree program<\/strong> that moves away from the credit hour standard to use an approach referred to as \u201cdirect assessment\u201d instead. In this approach, students receive credit related not to their presence in a real or virtual classroom for a specified period of time but instead to their successful completion of assessments that show they have mastered clearly defined competencies or are able to perform specific, predetermined tasks<\/span>. HLC has created a pilot group of four institutions now approved to offer a competency-based degree program: NAU, the University of Wisconsin Colleges (a system of two-year campuses), the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, and Capella University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Arizona wins regional accreditor\u2019s approval for personalized learning program &#8211;&#8211; from nextgenlearning.org by Nancy Millichap Excerpt (emphasis DSC): It\u2019s all systems go, at last: Northern Arizona University, one of the ten institutions presently developing breakthrough degree programs with NGLC support, recently got the green light to start enrolling students in their Personalized Learning program. 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