Online program at one small U of Maine campus boosts system
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"At the core of that growth is an online, competency-based program called YourPace, which UMPI developed in 2017. The model is similar to comparable programs ..."
"The growth has been 'just explosive ... particularly after COVID,' said Raymond Rice, UMPI's president. 'Just remarkable growth over time.'"
"Critics of online courses and competency-based education argue that they provide a lower quality of education and often lack the interaction with professors and peers ..."
"Institutions like UMPI have been on a path of reinventing how they're offering education, in terms of formats, modality, [being] competency based, self-paced-sometimes-and online ..."
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