1. Competency-based active learning is your faculty on-board?
14th Annual Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning The Power of Online Learning: Improving Learning in a Networked World November 5 - 7, Orlando.
Competency-based active learning
is your faculty on-board?
Research applications in an active learning environment
Presenters
Jane Ross, PhD
Jomarie Bliss, MBA
Wilf Backhaus, PhD
Jacob Krive, MBA
Lee Ann Graul AMBA 606: Managing Global Business
MBA & Executive Programs, UMUC
Photo credit: Open source, Cirque du Soleil

2. Competency-based active approach
What we have learned • competency-based teaching and learning is the most effective methodology we have found to support learning in online education • active, constructivist approach promotes confidence, collaboration and self efficacy (Bandura)
What we will share in this session • insights to help you get faculty members on board

3. UMUC MBA Context Graduate School of Management & Technology
IACBE accredited
Assessment-based program & course design
MBA - a rapidly growing online program
Competency approach supported by UMUC vision, mission and strategy
MBA competencies worked out at faculty level
Courses designed according to 10 competencies

4. Competencies that guide course and instructors in AMBA 606: Managing Global Business
Jomarie, please insert

5. Continuing journey of our MBA faculty team
Last year at Sloan Presented student progression from the foundation of learning (traits and characteristics) to skills and abilities, to competencies and demonstration and performance.
Described process developed at program and course levels to help students advance while acquiring knowledge in key business area
Discussed challenges and solutions experienced/applied in UMUC MBA course

6. This year - a different picture
A progress report We have gone further & deeper Incorporates research and practical applications from multiple academic semesters Focus on challenges and successes at faculty level in process of fostering competency-based development
A revelation As we live the experience, competency approach has turned the light of our inquiry back on ourselves

7. The competency approach to teaching in support of student learning
Competency-based learning needs competency-supported instruction *
Is student driven and empowering
Students own the learning process and outcomes of their efforts
New knowledge and skills required by instructors
Can be bewildering and threatening
Help is needed - it does not come by ‘osmosis’ (Blossom)
Resources are expanded with
faculty teams and communities of practice
Collaboration makes a difference!

8. Thinking about competencies and introducing them into curriculum
Important issues
Which approach to use?
Hierarchical or matrix?
Course specific or program wide?
Learning based or doctrinaire?
Our decision
Growing our own
Practice-based decision
Practice based model reflective of our subject matter

9. Ethical leadership
Executing decision
Technology fluency
Information literacy & research
Team building skills
Communication skills
Diversity-Cross culture perspectives
Decision making
Critical Thinking
Systems thinking

10. Faculty survey outcomes - AMBA 606 2008
Formation in competency-based approach incremental
Faculty buy-in is necessary Some are resistant, some are threatened
Faculty buy-in is necessary
Few faculty members come to competency-based approach with training in (numbers/examples)
Some instructors recognize/express lack of formation Build on strengths! - Some get it and love it! -Training is needed - training helps everyone - Knowledge exchange and team support

11. Spin-off benefits of competency-based active learning
Students benefit - stronger motivation
Embracing ambiguity - Rough & Tumble
Program strengthens - Resource based
Foundation for curriculum and course review
Faculty resources expand
Doing more with less
Appropriate to turbulent times

12. Competency-based active learning is your faculty on-board?
14th Annual Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning The Power of Online Learning: Improving Learning in a Networked World November 5 - 7, Orlando.
Competency-based active learning
is your faculty on-board?
Research applications in an active learning environment
Presenters
Jane Ross, PhD
Jomarie Bliss, MBA
Wilf Backhaus, PhD
Jacob Krive, MBA
Lee Ann Graul AMBA 606: Managing Global Business
MBA & Executive Programs, UMUC
Photo credit: Open source, Cirque du Soleil