Phil Hill updates his primer on competency-based education (CBE), which he describes as a subset of outcomes based education, where the outcomes “are more closely tied to job skills or employment needs, and the methods are typically self-paced.” He states that the emphasis and growth in CBE is being driven “by the desire to provide lower-cost education options through flexible programs targeted at working adults.”
http://mfeldstein.com/cbe-an-updated-primer-for-todays-online-market/