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May 22, 2014Presenter: Gabi Zolla, COO, Council for Adult and Experiential Learning
23rd Annual Conference of the Community College National Center for Community Engagement
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Service Learning and CAEL
If a Course +
= College Credit
Can Additional Learning from
= More College Credit
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College Credentials Matter• A worker with a four-year
degree on average will earn one million dollars more
• College graduate unemployment at 6.8% vs. non-college graduate at 24%
• By 2018, 63% of jobs will require some college or above
Anthony Carnevale, Stephen Rose and Ban Cheah, The College Payoff: Education, Lifetime Earnings, Center on Education and the Workforce, Georgetown Public Policy Institute, August, 2011.Anthony Carnevale, Tamara Jayasundera, and Ban Cheah, The College Advantage: Weathering the Economic Storm, Center on Education and the Workforce, Georgetown Public Policy Institute, August, 2012.Help Wanted: Projections of Jobs and Education Requirements through 2018, Georgetown University, Center for Education and the Workforce, June 2010
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Disruptive Innovation“allows a whole new population of consumers at the bottom of a market access to a product or service that was historically only accessible to consumers with a lot of money or a lot of skill.”
- Clayton Christensen’s website
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Is Higher Education Affordable?“Right now, if you are a high-income, low performing student, you have an 80 percent chance of going to college. If you are a low-income student, but high-performing with a B or better average, you only have a 20 percent chance of going to college. That's inexcusable.”
Senator Tom HarkinMarch 27, 2014
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What is Expected of Higher Ed
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“Knowledge Proliferation”
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Prior Learning AssessmentPrior Learning Assessment (PLA) is a process for evaluating knowledge and skills in order to award college credit for learning from:
• On-the-job
learning
• Corporate
training
• Independent
study, such as MOOCs
• Military service
• Volunteer
service
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Change is Good
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Graduation and Completion with PLA Credit • Baccalau
reate students are 2½ times more likely to persist to graduation.
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Wasting MoneyDebt
problem is even more
tragic when students
already know the subject matter and
have to take the course
anyway.
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Why Learning Portfolios?
Like an artist's portfolio, a
student puts together a
portfolio online that documents
their learning.
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Why LearningCounts.org• www.LearningCounts.or
g
• On-line PLA service • Free PLA Credit
Predictor• Complimentary student
guidance on all forms of PLA
• Courses to teach students how to discover and document their own college-level learning and build portfolios online
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Students Say It Helps…
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How We Are Partnering
• LearningCounts/Public Allies Portal
• Building Advising Capacity
• Enrolling into Courses about Portfolios
• Assessing Public Allies Curricula for College-Level Credit
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Advising Needs
• Service Learning Participants
• Choose College or Program
• Use of LearningCounts
• Address basic needs develop a support
system
• Build and maintain confidence
• Prior negative experiences with
learning
• General career planning