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Workshops and Roundtables


Conference Workshops

Prior Learning Assessment Track

PLA Best in Class: Customer Service the PLA Way

The College Level Examination Program: Credit-by-Exam and PLA

Pornstars, "Dilletantes" and Diplomats: Opening the Humanities to PLA Students

Evaluating Talent and Awarding Experiential Credit in an Online Environment

PLA-The Value and Processes When Marketing To the Corporate Sector

Internal PR for PLA: Positioning PLA to Stakeholders Across the University to Generate Buy-in

The Keys to Unlocking Portfolio Assessment - Transformation of UMUC's PLA Program

Create Individualized Degrees and Utilize PLA to Attract and Retain Adult Learners

Researching PLAR: Creating an International Research Agenda

PLA and Certification

Adult Learners in the Workforce Track

Expanding Adult Learning Programs Through Innovative Collaborative Partnerships with Employers

Workforce Adult Learning for the Future

Mining for Credentials: Using PLAR to Recognize, Empower, and Enable a Workforce

The Power and Effectiveness of the Career Readiness Certificate

Creating Long-Term Strategic Partnerships in Adult Work and Learning for Community Economic Sustainability

Strengthening Website Design for Adult Student Recruitment

Adult Learner Focus Track

Using the Adult Learner Focused Institution (ALFI) Toolkit

Let’s talk about Key Strategic Indicators of Institutional Effectiveness:  How do you know you are good?

Academic Triage: Increasing Success for Adult Learners

Surf Buddies: Reaching agreement on the big questions-transfer policies, fees, financial aid, transcripting, institutional change, and PLA networks

Making Learning Count in a Mobile World

New Directions in Adult Learning Track

Embracing Resources: Providing Frequent, Consistent and Available Training for Evaluators

Student-Directed Learning (SDL) Strategies:  Bridging Prior and New Learning for Assessmen

Reframing Abilities:  Portfolio for Inmates in Transition to Community

Program Feasibility Studies: A Step by Step Approach to Objectively Develop New Programs

Attracting and Retaining Adult Learners Track

Research Driven Marketing  and Recruitment: Reaching Out In An Intentional Way

Advising Veterans :  Matching Recommended Military Credit with Higher Education Requirements

Creating and Growing a Dynamic Lifelong Learning Program for Seniors

Shifting the Sails to Accommodate Adult Learners

Strengthening Website Design for Adult Student Recruitment

Accelerated Learning Track

An Experience-Based Model for Accelerating Coursework

The Whys and Hows of Critical Thinking for Adult College Students in Accelerated Degree Programs

Advising for Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) with Adult Online Learners

Keep me!: How AIU Online engages and retains its adult learners


Round Table Topics – 2010 CAEL Conference

2010 Multi-Institutional Study of Best Practices in Portfolio Assessment of Prior Learning: The Evaluator Perspective

Action Learning: Real-time projects/Real-time Learning

Adult Learning: An Image Concept

Advising Gone Green: Making Earth-kind Choices and Encouraging your Students to do the Same

Approaches to Portfolio Quality:  A RT Discussion

Beyond Repressive Tolerance:  Engaging White Adult Learners in Anti-racist Dialogue

Blended Learning: The New Direction in Adult Graduate Management Education

Creating an Effective Asynchronous, Web-based Prior Learning Portfolio Course

Early Warning Signs Your Students are at Risk: Proactive and Reactive Retention Strategies

Ensuring Student Success for Adult Degree Completion

Everybody’s Gone Surfin’, Surfin’ PLA: Institutional Collaboration to Create a Network of PLA Assessors

From Prospective to Enrolled Learner: the Penn State World Campus Relationship Approach

From Subject Experts to Instructional Gurus: Building Capacity for Student Learning

From Technician to Manager: AAS to Baccalaureate

Guide to Adult Education for Work

I Can Read Between the Lines: A Study of Faculty Assessors of Prior Learning Assessment

Increasing Relevance in Experiential Learning Activities for Adult Students

Innovative Strategies for Success in Today’s Continuing Education Market

Implementing a Self-Assessment and Career Planning Workshop for Internationally Educated Professionals (IEPs) in a Large Urban Teaching Hospital.

Please excuse my dear Aunt Sally: What makes a 40 year-old afraid of grade school level math?

Launching Lives and Transforming Students through Prior Learning Assessment

Leveraging Experience: Improving PLA Program Performance, Connections to Retention and Completion

Maintaining Adult Student Enrollment Through a Personal Approach

Online and Competency-based: Lessons Learned in Adult Student Retention

Pack-Team-Chain: How Work Gets Done in Groups

Penn State Serving Adult Learners: Models for Community Outreach

Practicing Non-Traditional Assessment Approaches within Traditional Academic Framework

Promising Practices for Creating and Maintaining a Military-Friendly Institution

Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) provisioning in South African Higher Education Institutions: Why is it failing?

Recruiting and Retaining Adult Learners on a Limited Institutional Budget

Retention and Prevention through Attention: “Students on the Edge”

Skills for Success: Gateway Course to Help Adult Learners be Successful in College and Life

Socrates: A Canadian Online PLA Self-Assessment Tool – Initial one-year Results

Strategies (on an undersized budget) for Recruitment and Corporate Partnership from the Small Private College Perspective.

Strategies for Selecting and Training PLA Evaluators

Students as Customers: The Changing Attitude of Students In A Consumer Driven Economy

Supporting the Entire Student Experience: Meeting the Demands of a Learner-Driven Market

The Joys and Challenges of Transitioning Adult Students into an Urban University

The Language of Evaluation

Theoretical Carpentry: Language, Experience, and College Level Learning

College and Industry Partnering: Employment Skills and Education

Two APL Pedagogies: Meticulous Accountant and Creative Sculptor

Work-based learning: A behavioral Health Workforce Model for Frontier Alaska and Beyond

Workplace Learning: An Approach for the Future 

Workplace-Based Degree Programs

For more information, please contact Diana Bamford-Rees, Associate Vice President, at dbamford-rees@cael.org

   
     
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