Resource Library

Browse these resources to develop a competency-based education program at your institution, help you lead CBE at the programmatic, institutional, or state-system level, or learn about the latest CBE research, design models, and best practices.

Key C-BEN Resources

Below you will find our most downloaded CBE guides and resources.

Interoperable Learning & Employment Records

CompetencyXChange Agenda

Quality Framework for Competency-Based Education Programs

Quality Framework for Competency-Based Education Programs: User's Guide

The CBE Story A Strategic Storytelling Toolkit

C-BEN Employer Engagement Best Practices Toolkit

Partners in a new Learning Model: Competency-Based Education and Credit for Prior Learning

Designing with Equity in Mind: An Action Toolkit for Competency-Based Education

Competency-Based Education: A Study of Four New Models and Their Implications for Bending the Higher Education Cost Curve (Desrochers and Staislof, 2016)

Developing a Program to Increase Geropsychology Competencies of Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Psychologists (Huh et al, 2018)