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Credit for What They Know: Community Service, PLA, and Adult Degree Completion

Credit for What They Know: Community Service, PLA, and Adult Degree Completion . May 22, 2014 Presenter: Gabi Zolla, COO, Council for Adult and Experiential Learning 23 rd Annual Conference of the Community College National Center for Community Engagement. Service Learning and CAEL.

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Credit for What They Know: Community Service, PLA, and Adult Degree Completion

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  1. Credit for What They Know: Community Service, PLA, and Adult Degree Completion May 22, 2014 Presenter: Gabi Zolla, COO, Council for Adult and Experiential Learning 23rd Annual Conference of the Community College National Center for Community Engagement

  2. Service Learning and CAEL = College Credit If a Course + = More College Credit Can Additional Learning from

  3. College Credentials Matter 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 • 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

  4. Disruptive Innovation “allows a whole new population of consumers at the bottom of a market access to a product or service that was historically onlyaccessible to consumers with a lot of money or a lot of skill.” - Clayton Christensen’s website

  5. 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 Harkin March 27, 2014

  6. What is Expected of Higher Ed

  7. “Knowledge Proliferation”

  8. Prior Learning Assessment Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) is a process for evaluating knowledge and skills in order to award college credit for learning from:

  9. Change is Good

  10. Graduation and Completion with PLA Credit

  11. Wasting Money Debt problem is even more tragic when students already know the subject matter and have to take the course anyway.

  12. Why Learning Portfolios? Like an artist's portfolio, a student puts together a portfolio online that documents their learning.

  13. Why LearningCounts.org • www.LearningCounts.org • 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

  14. Students Say It Helps…

  15. How We Are Partnering

  16. Advising Needs

  17. Questions? Gabi Zolla gzolla@cael.org

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