Download or read book Redefining Competency Based Education written by Nina Jones Morel and published by Business Expert Press. This book was released on 2018-09-19 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redefining Competency-Based Education provides an expanded definition of career competence, based on actual employer hiring and promotion requirements, which enhances university curricula to better prepare students for work and life. Readers will learn how private sector competency models have evolved to define criteria for hiring, promoting, and training talent. The authors contrast these models with classic university practices to document a historic academic preference for technical preparation over the so-called soft skills valued by employers. This book outlines techniques for measuring and developing soft skills that provide significant advantage in career success, and shares examples of universities that have successfully implemented these concepts.