Sevensided Consulting Information

While the basic principles of education hold, recent cultural changes are forcing educators to rethink how learning is conducted. The information revolution is disrupting everything. Online courses seem to be a natural response, but they raise as many problems as they solve. There are better options. Sevensided Consulting exists to help organizations build high-quality systems that utilize competency-based learning and network-based supervision. Sevensided gets competency-based education (CBE). CBE measures a learner's progress in terms of their actual proficiency, not in terms of participation or seat-hours. It identifies discrete learning units, whether knowledge or character or skill sets, and grants a student credit once he or she demonstrates a certain level of mastery. 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. At the same time, Sevensided gets network-based education. Because competency is meant to be forged in community, lots of people besides professors can be used for formation and assessment. Indeed, programs can and should be intentional about using the breadth of a student's personal network to achieve learning goals. The successful training programs of the future will be those that use mentors, coaches, managers, co-workers, counselors, pastors - even friends and family - as part of the formal learning process. Sevensided is on the leading edge of such distributed supervision, making sure networks are being used in effective, high-quality ways. Sevensided Consulting was started by Dr. Nathan Hitchcock in 2018. His previous work with Sioux Falls Seminary resulted in explosive results, including a tripling of students in programs over five years. His clients are various graduate and undergraduate schools, faith-based organizations, and businesses looking to build innovative training systems.