Tina Grant, executive director of the Center for the Assessment of Post-Traditional Learning at Excelsior College, joins the podcast to discuss how competency-based education and new technology such as adaptive learning can help turn many of today’s higher education challenges into opportunities. Grant also talks about her selection to the Next Generation Leadership Challenges (NGLC) Breakthrough Models Incubator Leadership Academy. Follow on Twitter: Tina Grant (@TGAlbany) Excelsior Life (@ExcelsiorLife) 1:15 Next Generation Leadership Challenges (NGLC) Breakthrough Models Incubator/Leadership Academy. 2:16 Turning higher education’s greatest challenges into opportunities. 3:23 Why brick-and-mortars and post-traditional schools must work together. 5:05 Adaptive learning and role of technology. 6:18 Growth of competency-based education – will it continue? 7:53 Securing employer buy-in on competency. 8:38 Tacking the student retention problem. 9:38 “Building Block Model” of competency-based education. Show Notes Beyond Business As Usual: The 2014 Breakthrough Models Incubator Tina Grant Expert Profile Tina Grant Thought Leadership Archive (Evolllution) Excelsior College Awarded Grant to Evaluate Adaptive Learning Software Steve Ernst, PhD Expert Profile