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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