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Coming Soon will be CAEL’s new research study on PLA and student academic outcomes, as well as important resources to help you learn more about PLA.

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Many higher education institutions ensure the quality of their PLA programs by adhering to quality standards such as CAEL’s Ten Standards of Assessing Learning

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CAEL / Events / 2009 Spring Workshops

PLA 101 Workshops

Next available workshop at the CAEL International Conference November 8-9, 2010 in San Diego, CA

About the Workshop
PLA 101 Workshops provide the basic “nuts and bolts” of how to design and implement PLA at colleges and universities. These 1½ day workshops will help institutions design and implement a program that is both attractive to students and consistent with high academic standards. The overall goal of the CAEL PLA 101 workshop is to provide faculty and practitioners who are new to PLA programs with the understanding and tools they need to begin to build, or develop and expand PLA programs that will benefit adult learners in their institutions. Participants will also be better prepared to be internal advocates within their own colleges and universities for establishing principles of good practice. A secondary goal for the PLA 101 Workshop is to build a national network of skilled and informed PLA professionals who can provide leadership within higher education on the importance of CAEL standards for good practice in prior learning assessment.

At the completion of the workshop, participants will:

  • Understand the principles and value of experiential learning.
  • Deepen their understanding of the history and development of prior learning assessment in higher education.
  • Be able to advance the CAEL principles of best practice in prior learning assessment.
  • Become familiar with the steps, tools and procedures in the PLA process with an emphasis on Portfolio Development.
  • Be able to articulate the roles and responsibilities of those involved in the PLA process.
  • Gain a better understanding of the administrative principles of prior learning assessment.
  • Be able to articulate to various audiences the value of prior learning assessment.
  • Be eligible to take the ‘PLA for PLA assessment’ to bypass the first workshop in the CAEL PLA online workshop and, with possible supplemental work, begin with workshop two in the online course.

Watch this page for upcoming workshops.

Questions? Contact Diana Bamford-Rees at dbamford-rees@cael.org.  

 
   
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