Thursday, June 1, 2017
4:00 pm – 7:00 pm Registration and Networking
In the lobby
Friday, June 2, 2017
7:00 am – 8:00 am Breakfast and Registration
Foyer by Lake Travis Ballroom
8:00 am – 9:00 am
Lake Travis Ball Room
Dr. Mary Hendrix
Former Vice President for Student Access and Success
at Texas A&M University-Commerce
Session 1: 9:00 am – 9:45 am
Guadalupe
Obtaining Administrator Buy-In for New CBE Degree Programs and Courses
Haydn Fox
Texas A&M University-Commerce, TX
Session Moderator
Ali Esmaeili, South Texas College
Lake LBJ
The CBE FacultyPath: Creating Space to Develop and Support New Ways Teaching, Learning, and Assessing
Brooks Doherty
Rasmussen College, MN
Session Moderator
Jessica Mason, American Institutes for Research
Barton Creek
HRPO 2301 Human Resources Management: Course Demo
Gemmy Allen
North Lake College
Dallas County Community College District, TX
Session Moderator
Kevin Peek, South Texas College
San Gabriel
Competency Assessment Guides – Comprehensive and Measurable Assessments That Align With Active Professional Development Objectives
Barbara Joseph
Wheelock College, MA
Session Moderator
Natalia Assis, Texas A&M University-Commerce
Session 2: 9:45 am – 10:30 am
Guadalupe
Giving Credit Where Credit is Due: A Process for Awarding Credit for Prior Learning
Pamela Campbell, Laurel Williamson
San Jacinto Community College District, TX
Session Moderator
Myshie Pagel, El Paso Community College
Lake LBJ
The Power of a Skills Ledger
Joann Kozyrev
The Institute for Transformational Learning (UTx)
The University of Texas System, TX
Session Moderator
Jessica Mason, American Institutes for Research
Barton Creek
Is Creating a CBE Course with Learning Outcomes in Mind Important?
San Gabriel
Texas OnCourse: Streamlining Student Pathways to Postsecondary and Career Success
Michael Atkinson, Learning Objects
Laura Chrisco, UT Austin
Session Moderator
Kelle Parsons, American Institutes for Research
BREAK
10:30 am – 10:45 am
Session 3: 10:45 am – 11:30 am
Guadalupe
Developing a Data-Driven CBE Program
Carlos Rivers
Institute for Competency-Based Education
Texas A&M University-Commerce, TX
Session Moderator
Eric Roe, The University of Texas at Austin
Lake LBJ
A Collaborative Lift: Lessons Learned in Creating an Institution’s Initial CBE Program
Kelvin Bentley, Carlos Morales
Tarrant County College District, TX
Session Moderator
Laurel Williamson, San Jacinto College
Barton Creek
Working Backwards from Open: The Story of Thomas Edison State University’s Openly Licensed General Education Program
Steve Phillips, Lauren Durkin
Thomas Edison State University, NJ
Session Moderator
Lauren Cifuentes, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
San Gabriel
CBE Course Demo
Shonda Gibson
Texas A&M University-Commerce, TX
Session Moderator
Joe Lostracco, Austin Community College
Session 4: 11:30 am – 12:15 pm
Guadalupe
On the Path to Success: Early Evidence of the Efficacy of Postsecondary CBE Programs
Jessica Mason
Kelle Parsons
American Institutes for Research, Washington D.C.
Session Moderator
Eric Roe, The University of Texas at Austin
Lake LBJ
Competency-Based Curriculum Development and Continuous Improvement
Lisa McIntyre-Hite,
Martha Cheney
Walden University, MN
Session Moderator
Anna Van Wie, Learning Objects
Barton Creek
Build it with Who You Have and For Free: Deep dive into UMHB’s CBE Curriculum Design Process
Sarah Sanchez
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, TX
Session Moderator
Matthew Henry, LeTourneau University
San Gabriel
The Nature of Coaching in Higher Education
Tesha Gooch
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, TX
Session Moderator
Lynda Webb, Midland College
LUNCH
12:45 – 1:00
Dr. Shonda Gibson
Role of ICBE in guiding and mentoring CBE across the State
1:00 – 1:30
Dr. Deb Bushway
Competency-based Education Network (C-BEN )
Session 5: 1:45 pm – 2:30 pm
Guadalupe
Defining Quality: CBE and Emerging Standards
Deb Bushway, C-BEN, TN
Session Moderator
Kelvin Bentley, Tarrant County College District
Lake LBJ
Panel: CBE and Financial Aid Worlds Collide: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Melissa Crews (moderator)
Maria del C. Perez-Ramos,
Jeremy Tanner, and Tamika Malone
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Barton Creek
Panel: Designing for Evidence: Challenges and Benefits of Evidencing Competencies
Michael Atkinson (moderator)
Steve Phillips
Anna Van Wie
Natalie Skadra
San Gabriel
Disrupting Technological Education through Competency-based Education. Case Study: Polk State College (Florida)
Eric Roe
The University of Texas at Austin, TX
Session Moderator
Byron J. Latil, Wake Technical Community College
Session 6: 2:30 pm – 3:15 pm
Guadalupe
CBE and ZPD: Designing High-Stakes Project-Based Assessments to Motivate Learning
Brian Finnegan
Peirce College, PA
Lake LBJ
Panel Continuation
Barton Creek
Panel Continuation
San Gabriel
Next-Generation CBE: Designing Competency-Based Education for Underprepared College Learners
Joe Deegan
Jobs for The Future, MA
Deb Bushway
C-BEN, TN
BREAK
3:15 PM – 3:30 PM
Session 7: 3:30 pm – 4:15 pm
Guadalupe
Validating Competency-Based Education
Kimberly Ziebarth, Will Pierce
Davis Applied Technology College, UT
Session Moderator
Shonda Gibson, Texas A&M University-Commerce
Lake LBJ
Accelerating Success: Best Practices for Planning, Developing and Implementing Competency-Based Education in Workforce andTechnical Programs
Linda Smarzik
Austin Community College, TX
Session Moderator
Amardeep Kahlon, Austin Community College
Barton Creek
Building ARCS for CBE: Motivation in Instructors
Lauren Cifuentes, Rinki Suryavanshi, Alexandra Janney
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, TX
Session 8: 4:15 pm – 5:00 pm
Guadalupe
Do you have the guts? Improving CBE Through the Use of Student Feedback
Patty Kallman, Lauren Snead
University of Houston, TX
Lake LBJ
Punctuated Disequilibrium: A Comparison of Retention Patterns in Degree Completion Programs including Competency Based Education Programs
Donna Smith
Texas A&M University-Commerce, TX
Barton Creek
Texas Affordable Baccalaureate Program
Jennifer Nailos
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, TX
Session Moderator
Emma Miller, South Texas College