Teaching and Learning with AI Conference

Generative AI can enhance the development of competency-based education (CBE) courses, which prioritize personalized learning and mastery over traditional time-based methods. A major challenge to widespread CBE adoption is the administrative burden of aligning industry-specific skills with learning outcomes. We introduce a "Prompt to Competency" framework that uses AI to streamline course design through three key stages: (1) identifying current labor market demands, (2) aligning these demands with competencies using Bloom's Taxonomy, and (3) creating adaptive, rubric-based assessments. Preliminary results show that utilizing AI in curriculum development can reduce design time by about 60% while ensuring strong alignment with industry standards, thus enhancing the scalability and effectiveness of CBE models.