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What are MLC’s CBTE courses like?

  Grounded in Scripture and Doctrine The six courses of the Competency-Based Theology Education (CBTE) Minor are, first and foremost, grounded in Scripture and doctrine. The three Biblical History and Literature courses focus your attention on the Bible. These courses are built around weekly readings from the Bible. Each week, your readings are guided through […]

Transferring Completed Coursework

Transfer Credit Practice Returning Adult Learners often have completed coursework or degrees at other institutions. They may have dozens of credits to consider. Incorporating these credits into their academic record at MLC expedites their path to completing their course of study as they continue. While we grant as much credit as we can for prior […]

SME — What Does That Mean?

Acronyms are pretty prevalent across the synod and our campus. LES? Lutheran Elementary School. ALHS? Area Lutheran High School. BIC? Bible Information Class. DP? District President. As we build our CBE (competency-based education) programming at MLC (Martin Luther College), we are adding a few new acronyms to our WELS (Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod) vocabulary. You […]

OER — What Does That Mean?

Acronyms are pretty prevalent across the synod and our campus. LES? Lutheran Elementary School. ALHS? Area Lutheran High School. BIC? Bible Information Class. DP? District President. As we build our CBE (competency-based education) programming at MLC (Martin Luther College), we are adding a few new acronyms to our WELS (Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod) vocabulary. You […]

I’m Accepted! Now What?

We are excited to welcome you to your competency-based education course of study! You may be wondering about the next steps now that you are accepted. While you can always reach out to the Director of Nontraditional Education with your questions, here are a few general updates you should watch for About a week after […]

Building Competency-Based Education at MLC: A View from the Instructional Designer, Part Four

This four-part mini-series of blogs by our instructional designer, Dr. Martin LaGrow, will share the technical, logistical, and academic approach to building MLC’s first competency-based education program. Ensuring Academic Rigor Since its inception, Martin Luther College (and before that, Doctor Martin Luther College) has existed to prepare people to serve in the ministry of the […]

Building Competency-Based Education at MLC: A View from the Instructional Designer, Part Three

This four-part mini-series of blogs by our instructional designer, Dr. Martin LaGrow, will share the technical, logistical, and academic approach to building MLC’s first competency-based education program. How is a CBE Course Different from a Traditional Online Course? Where We’ve Come From Most of us have had some kind of experience with online education or […]

Building Competency-Based Education at MLC: A View from the Instructional Designer, Part Two

  This four-part mini-series of blogs by our instructional designer, Dr. Martin LaGrow, will share the technical, logistical, and academic approach to building MLC’s first competency-based education program. CBE: Education Based on, well, Competencies! In the first post in this series, we have looked at the technical framework of the new MLC CBE program. In […]