This document provides an agenda for a webinar on skills attainment and competency-based education (CBE). The webinar will feature a panel of experts including university presidents, CEOs, and authors. They will discuss defining and aligning CBE with skills attainment, innovative methods for connecting students to the workforce, and challenges with university systems accommodating CBE and skills assessment. The webinar aims to address how CBE can help minimize learning, achievement, and opportunity gaps and skills shortages in the workforce. Recent headlines about CBE initiatives involving universities, publishers, and job preparation will also be covered, with a question and answer period.

1. Skills Attainment
and CBE
Webinar
Friday, June 12
10:00 – 11:30 AM CST

2. Agenda
• Introduction of panel members
• Defining CBE and skills attainment
• The real customer in education
• The president’s and provost’s CBE challenge
• CBE is a national and global issue
• Innovative approaches to address skills gap challenge
and use CBE
• CIO’s challenge with systems accommodating CBE
• Questions and answers

4. Dr. Bill Path
President of Oklahoma State University,
Institution of Technology

5. Liz Murphy
Chief Executive Officer, CampusWorks

6. Gary Beach
Author of The U.S. Technology Skills Gap, Advisor at
Massachusetts High Technology Council, writer for
WSJ, Huffington Post, CIO Emeritus at IDG

7. Dr. Sergio Matviuk
Dean of Online and Lifelong Learning

8. Michael Mathews
Chief Information Officer, Moderator

9. Three main take-away thoughts
1. Understand the alignment between skills
attainment and competency based education
(CBE).
2. Discuss innovative methods to connect
students to the workforce – which is the reason
CBE and skills attainment and skills gaps are
being discussed.
3. Discuss SIS and LMS systems strategies that
are trying to accommodate CBE and skills
attainment.

10. Definition - CBE
Competency-based learning refers to
systems of instruction, assessment,
grading, and academic reporting that
are based on students demonstrating
that they have learned the knowledge
and skills they are expected to learn as
they progress through their education.

11. Desired Outcomes of CBE
• Minimize learning gaps
• Minimize achievement gaps
• Mininime opportunity gaps
• Minimize skills gap
Educate and train prepared workers for a
dynamic workforce that has a every
changing and shortage of skilled workers.

12. Recent Headlines About CBE

13. Recent Headlines About CBE
WGU and Wiley start a Journal of CBE
June, 2015

14. Recent Headlines About CBE
“Strengthen coursework and internships
designed to prepare students for jobs in these
high-demand fields.”

15. Questions and Answers