It’s time to design for change.

You’ve likely already updated the way you deliver content, but it’s not overcoming the deeper obstacles in education. What comes next?

Beyond the revolution in delivery is a second revolution, the revolution in measurement. Learning is being measured differently. Testing and credentials are changing. Even bigger, the credit hour is being replaced with the competency, a more precise unit of learning. Competency-based education (CBE) measures a learner's progress in terms of their actual proficiency, not in terms of participation or seat-hours. Schools using CBE love it for its clarity, speed, flexibility and portability.  Students do too.  Sevensided Consulting knows how to implement CBE, partially or fully, in ways that exceed accrediting standards.

Then there’s a third revolution breaking: the revolution in supervision. The successful training programs of the future will be those that use mentors, coaches, managers, co-workers, counselors and pastors as part of the formal learning process. Creating a whole-life curriculum requires a rethink of how supervision operates, incorporating lots of different overseers into the academic journey. Because competency is meant to be forged in community, lots of people besides professors can be used for contextualized formation and assessment.  Sevensided Consulting is on the leading edge of designing and managing distributed supervision.

Sevensided was started by Dr. Nathan Hitchcock in 2018.  He was a ground floor designer with the movement known as CBTE (competency-based theological education). His previous work with Sioux Falls Seminary (now Kairos University) resulted in explosive results, including a tripling of enrolled students.  He helped the Alliance of Reformed Churches, a new denomination, build a competency-based education ordination framework that was able to process 100 pastors its first year. His clients are various graduate and undergraduate schools, faith-based organizations, and businesses looking to build innovative training systems.