Competence Based Education (CBE)

Module 4 in Pedagogy Course

Assist. Prof. Dr. Mussab Salman Sultan

Technical College of Informatics-Akre

Duhok Polytechnic University
13th June 2020
 Module outline
 The aim of pedagogy course, Innovative pedagogical approaches
 General meaning of competency, An introduction to the competence
based education (CBE) “Bob story with math as an example of CBE”
 Groups discussions: What did you learned from this story? What is CBE?
Do you think: Is it possible to consider CBE here in Kurdistan? How, why
and where?
 Short video showing the differences between CBE and traditional learning
 What is competence based education? Definitions
 What are the main principles of CBE?
 What is the meaning of personal, teacher and transversal competences?
 Why is CBE significance? What are the drawbacks of CBE? What are the
implications of CBE for teaching and learning? Where is CBE in Europe
going?
 What is competence based curriculum (CBC)? Elements (Criteria) of CBC
 Requirements for the criteria of CBE in KHE? How does CBC works?
 Home work on CBE development in KHE: How do we know where
students are? What do we do, once we know?
 SOWT – Analysis, assessment
 Some fruitful examples of the correlation between learning and business
in Finland
 Diaries discussion
Pedagogy modules
 The aim of pedagogy course

The core of the pedagogy course is mainly:

 To Improve the education and teachers’ competences in different levels.

 To unify the education structures here in Kurdistan with the European

standards.
 Innovative pedagogical approaches

 Student center education

 Problem based education

 Phenomena based education

 Case based education

 Competence based education

 Flipped classes

 Entrepreneurship “Using music”

 Authentic learning
 General meaning of competency

‫مهارة— كفاءة— اختصاص— اهلية — جدارة — تمكن‬

Competence is the ability to do something successfully or efficiently

The players displayed varying degrees of competences

Tell me; I will forget, involve me I may remember,

let me doing (practicing) it, I will never forget….

Please discuss this idiom.

An introduction to the competence based education (CBE)
Bob story with math as an example of CBE

As 5-6 groups of students, the following have to be discussed

 What did you learned from this story?

 What is CBE?

 Do you think: it is possible to apply CBE here in

Kurdistan?

 How, why and where?

 Try to do a curriculum for that as a homework

 Bob story on mathematics as an example of CBE

Math was one of the reasons Bob didn’t go to college out of high school.
He did fine in other subjects, but he struggled with math. He earned
enough math credits to graduate, but he never learned the fundamentals.
After graduation, he went to work at a local manufacturing plant, first as a
technician and eventually as shift supervisor. Now 34, he has risen as
high as possible in the company without a college degree. With two chil-
dren, however, returning to school seems daunting—not to mention the
math requirement. Then he hears about a competency-based program at
a local community college.

What are the characteristics of the programme?

1. The program recognizes prior learning.
2. Bob can work independently.
3. Bob can progress by showing the skills needed for each step along
the way.
4. Most of the learning activities are online.
First Term
Bob (1) earns nearly three semesters’ worth of credits, mostly through
assessments of material he already knew, (2) takes a course in psychology,
which he completes in about six weeks, and (3) one in geography, which
takes closer to ten weeks.
Second term
Bob (1) signs up for college algebra, working slowly at first, struggling with
the principles of algebra. (2) Over the years, he had used videos, tutorials,
and other online tools to learn math concepts when he needed to—when he
bought his house. (3) He learned about mortgages from banking websites.

The Outcome
Many of the online resources for his algebra course are familiar, and they
respond to his rate of learning, providing the support he needs. It is not
easy, but Bob knows he is really learning. Because progress requires
mastery of the material, his rate of progress increases. In the end, he
spends nearly 17 weeks completing the course, but he finishes confident
that he can succeed in statistics, the other math course he needs for his AA
degree. Once that is finished, an agreement with the state college allows his
credits to transfer toward a bachelor’s program if he decides to continue.
Thank you