Title
Flashback Fridays: Innovations in Education - When, Where, and Why GSU Began - Competency Based Education - GSU's Experimental Model of Learning Modules and Open Classroom Environment
Files
Copyright Statement
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Production Date
9-27-2019
Series
GSU Anniversaries and Historical Documents
Length
1 hour 44 minutes
Program Description
Professor Larry McClellan and Professor Carl Stover review GSU's innovations in education, the successes and failures of early innovations in GSU's open admission policy, learning modules, continuing enrollment, the trimester academic calendar, self directed learning, competency based assessments (there were no grades in the early years), and cyclical tenure for faculty, which brought national attention to the campus in its first decade.
Tags
Flashback Fridays, 50th Anniversary
Disciplines
Higher Education
Recommended Citation
50th Anniversary Committee, "Flashback Fridays: Innovations in Education - When, Where, and Why GSU Began - Competency Based Education - GSU's Experimental Model of Learning Modules and Open Classroom Environment" (2019). Video Gallery. 38.
https://opus.govst.edu/video/38
