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Giving Credit where Credit is due

Giving Credit where Credit is due. Blended. Degree Completion. MOOC. Step Up. Disruption. Prior Learning Assessment. Self Paced. Competency . CHANGE. Innovation. Online. Accelerated. Credit Hour. Prior Learning Assessment.

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Giving Credit where Credit is due

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  1. Giving Credit where Credit is due

  2. Blended Degree Completion MOOC Step Up Disruption Prior Learning Assessment Self Paced Competency CHANGE Innovation Online Accelerated Credit Hour

  3. Prior Learning Assessment • The evaluation and assessment of an individual’s learning for college credit, certification, or advanced standing toward further education or training. • Learning may be acquired through work, corporate training, military service, independent study, etc. • In order to be considered “credit worthy” the learning must be “college-level” and include both theoretical and applied knowledge. • Based on learning outcomes

  4. Transcript No Credential Other College AP Exams Badge High School CLEP or DSST Military Am. Council on Education Industry Training Credit by Exam MOOC Credit by Portfolio

  5. Penn State Characteristics • Course match • Course needed for degree • Faculty are subject matter experts – assessors • Assess and award credit only for matriculated students • No limit to credit by exam, 15/30 limit to credit by portfolio • Have some school-to-school articulation • Have performed some global reviews

  6. Assessment • “the systematic collection of information about student learning, using the time knowledge, expertise, and resources available, in order to inform decisions about how to improve learning.” Walvoord (2004) • “the ongoing process of establishing clear, measureable expected outcomes of student learning, ensuring that students have sufficient opportunities to achieve those outcomes, systematically gathering, analyzing, and interpreting evidence to determine how well students learning matches the expectations and using the resulting information to understand and improve student learning.” - Middle States Commission on Higher Education (2009)

  7. Assessment for Credit • Does competence exist? • Were the learning outcomes met? • By either… • Assessing the student through traditional PLA methods • Assessing the learning activity (that delivered the learning outcomes) and verifying that the student performed at some predetermined level. • Rely on a Third Party • ACE • Learningcounts • KNext • Pearson Vue • Excelsior Exams

  8. Questions • What competence are you addressing with a MOOC? • What are the learning outcomes? • What type of assessment would give you confidence that competence has been acquired? • Is the assessment intended to lead to credit? Where?

  9. Competency • The ability to demonstrate a system or a sequence of behavior that is functionally related to attaining a performance goal. • Can be measured through the assessment of learning outcomes. • Denotes a level of knowledge, skill, and ability needed for a standard of performance.

  10. Competency Model • Allied Health

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