An Integrated System Of Education: Using Structured Learning Environments And Assurance Of Learning To Improve Students' Human Capital

Students striving to acquire the capability of contributing to the modern global economy are neither clients nor customers of an educational institution. Rather, students are creators and consumers of their own human capital, the quality of which depends in part on the investment they and their institutions are willing to make in them as they progress through their education. Just as industry integrated quality control systems into its production processes to ensure high quality before the products were made available to potential customers, educational systems can do so too. We argue that the goals of an integrated system of education are not only to demonstrate learning on the part of students, but to provide information about the need, and opportunity, for remediation prior to completion of their chosen degree program. It is thus in the interest of students and their professors to continuously improve the quality of students’ human capital to enhance the personal satisfaction of graduates and the satisfaction of their future employers. We offer a path to do so