As I shared last week, Outcomes-Based Education (OBE) is simply an educational philosophy that says our focus is on the outcome not the pathway. In this philosophy, schools work with stakeholders to identify and articulate the learning outcomes for a given degree program, then decide how it will assess whether or not students have reached…
The Kairos Project track within Sioux Falls Seminary’s Master of Divinity, MA in Christian Leadership, and MA Bible and Theology programs is a version of Competency-Based Education (CBE). It is also a mastery model of education that could be referred to as Outcome-Based Education. While CBE seems to be something that is relatively new, OBE…
This past week, roughly 70 students attended the Kairos Project fall intensive course on our campus in Sioux Falls. We had students from three different countries, two different continents, and several different states. All of them had one thing in common: they were here because someone told them about it. Up to this point, we…
Yes, there was a little sarcasm in the wording for this week’s title. As we enter into the third year of the Kairos Project at Sioux Falls Seminary, I am more convinced than ever that mentor teams and contextual learning are great ideas. This reality should come as a surprise to no one. Mounds of…
When this year’s new Kairos students attend their first intensive learning seminar in a few weeks, they will be given an outline of the Kairos Project curriculum. That outline is significantly different than the outline that was given to last year’s new students, and last year’s outline was different than the first year’s outline. In…