WGU Audit: Likely impacts for fragile movement of competency-based education

One issue that almost all observers seem to agree upon is that the Department of Education is unlikely to accept the Office of the Inspector General’s (OIG’s) recommendations to declare Western Governors University (WGU) a provider of correspondence courses and to force the school to pay back more than $700 million in Title IV funds. It would be a mistake, however, to dismiss the audit findings that attempted to add new interpretations of distance education requirements for “regular and substantive interaction”, a topic I mentioned on Friday.

Ah – where we differ is 'CBE juggernaut'. I think movement is fragile and this audit, even if unimplemented, will affect other decisions.