This presentation Bitsy Cohn, Director, Credit for Prior learning, CCCS; Danielle Forrest, Prior Learning Specialist MSU Denver; Dr. Rey Hernandez, Associate Professor of Economics, MSU Denver around the conversation of Prior Learning Assessment and what is considered crucial to advancing the prior learning assessment conversation?
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Sticking Points: Tips for Advancing the PLA Conversation presentation at the Colorado Adult Learning Symposium
1. Sticking Points:
Tips for Advancing the PLA
Conversation
Bitsy Cohn, Director, Credit for Prior learning, CCCS
Danielle Forrest, Prior Learning Specialist MSU Denver
Dr. Rey Hernandez, Associate Professor of Economics, MSU Denver
2. What do you consider crucial
to advancing the prior
learning assessment
conversation?
5. Student Perspective
• Ease of access is key
Where to go, how to get information, faculty/staff
awareness
• Articulating experience in a portfolio
Understanding what college-level learning means
Addressing writing deficiencies
Connecting theory and practice
• Time commitment
• Cost
• Navigating the process
6. Best PLA practices for students
• Establish a permanent position
▫ Screener, resource specialist, advisor able to help
students define their end goal
▫ Familiar with transfer, admissions, registrar, and
academic departments
• Establish a campus hub
▫ One place on campus to go for all PLA support
• Clearly delineated list of classes available for all
PLA – portfolio, dept. exam, CLEP, DSST, etc.
7.
8. Leadership Perspective
• Policy
• Articulation
• Standards/Rigor
• Faculty driven
• 2:4 at the table
• National best practices
• Leveraged resources
11. This Workforce Solution, ” Sticking Points: Tips for Advancing the PLA
Conversation” presentation by Bitsy Cohn at the Colorado Adult Learning
Symposium (CALS) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License. Based on a work created under the Department of Labor,
TAACCCT3 grant, permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available
at www.cccs.edu/CHAMP.
Editor's Notes
Sticking Points: Tips for Advancing the PLA Conversation
Bitsy Cohn, Director, Credit for Prior learning, CCCS
Danielle Forrest, Prior Learning Specialist MSU Denver
Dr. Rey Hernandez, Associate Professor of Economics, MSU Denver
What do you consider crucial to advancing the prior learning assessment conversation?
Faculty Perspective
Engagement
Building buy-in
MSU Faculty PLA Task Force
Creation
Charge
Outcomes
Questions
Student Perspective
Ease of access is key
Where to go, how to get information, faculty/staff awareness
Articulating experience in a portfolio
Understanding what college-level learning means
Addressing writing deficiencies
Connecting theory and practice
Time commitment
Cost
Navigating the process
Best PLA practices for Students
Establish a permanent position
Screener, resource specialist, advisor able to help students define their end goal
Familiar with transfer, admissions, registrar, and academic departments
Establish a campus hub
One place on campus to go for all PLA support
Clearly delineated list of classes available for all PLA – portfolio, dept. exam, CLEP, DSST, etc.
Questions
Leadership Perspective
Policy
Articulation
Standards/Rigor
Faculty driven
2:4 at the table
National best practices
Leveraged resources
Questions
Contacts
Bitsy Cohn
bitsy.cohn@cccs.edu
Danielle Forrest
fforrest@msudenver.edu
Rey Hernandez
rherna42@msudenver.edu
CC BY and Attribution
This Workforce Solution, ” Sticking Points: Tips for Advancing the PLA Conversation” presentation by Bitsy Cohn at the Colorado Adult Learning Symposium (CALS) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Based on a work created under the Department of Labor, TAACCCT3 grant, permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at www.cccs.edu/CHAMP.
