October 5, 2015
By Tom Vander Ark
College for America (CfA) is a competency-based degree program for working adults and their employers. The project-based AA in General Studies for Business is organized around 120 competencies that, for example, include:
Defining and using marketing terminology and concepts
Generating a variety of approaches to addressing a problem
Conveying information by creating charts and graphs
Students demonstrate these competencies by completing real-world projects. Experienced learners can choose a fast path to show what they know while a more supported path is available for new content. CfA, a program of Southern New Hampshire University, costs $2500 per year regardless of pacing.
The CfA curriculum is being piloted with 60 students at three Big Picture Learning campuses in Providence with the intent of awarding dual credit for successful demonstrations of mastery.
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