Prior Learning Assessment: Balancing Academic Quality and Enrollment Goals
Venue: Online
Event Date/Time: Jan 21, 2010 | End Date/Time: Jan 21, 2010 |
Description
Join us online to learn how to balance legitimate faculty concerns about academic quality and the curricular equivalence of external learning experiences with informed, collaborative judgments about evaluating such learning. Topics include:
* Recognizing stakeholders' explicit and implicit values toward prior learning in order to establish common ground for policy
* Managing transfer student anxiety and consumer attitudes about prior learning assessment and academic standards
* Best practices in using external organizations' guidelines for assessing prior learning
* Working with academic governance bodies at your institution on transfer credit policies specific to degree and certificate, credit and non-credit programs
* To be or not to be an Adult Learning Focused Institution (Council for Adult and Experiential Learning) and a member of the Cooperating College Network (American Council on Education)