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What is Education Framework

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Competence-Based Curriculum and E-Learning in Higher Education
Also called curriculum frameworks, provide a broad description of the content and the sequence of learning expected of all students by the time they graduate from a learning institution. Framework development is the first step toward developing clear and high quality standards that all students are expected to achieve.
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Critical Issues Surrounding Competency-Based Education in the Digital Age: The “Wickedness Narrative of the Problem”
Jonai Wabwire (Kisii University, Kenya)
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-6586-8.ch010
Abstract
Competency-based education and life in post-2022 Africa will involve dealing with very complex problematic issues described by various scholars as “wicked problems.” Examples of “wicked problem” policy issues include climate change, health issues, environment degradation, and sustainable development. This chapter explores the characteristics of wicked issues and the challenges they pose for competency-based education approaches. The first part of the chapter introduces the concepts of competency-based education and the “wicked problems.” The second part discusses the properties of wicked problems in the context of competency-based education. The third part suggests possible strategies for taming wicked problems, and the last section draws the conclusions.
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