Webinar Series - Prior Learning Assessment Options for Career Advancement

When
March 10, 2021
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location
Online

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Prior Learning Assessment Options for Career Advancement

with Susan Forseille

Date & Time: March 10, 2021, 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. PST.

Location: Online.

Registration deadline: March 09, 2021

Cost: Free

Please join us for a series of webinars on Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR) to learn more about ways to harness PLAR for Career Advancement, as well as its economic impacts in British Columbia!

Webinar Description

Increasingly post-secondary institutions (PSI) are recognizing that experience is an amazing teacher. This informal and non-formal learning can come from work, volunteer experiences, self-study, travel, parenting, and many more life experiences. Some PSIs have developed prior learning assessment (PLA) programs that support students in identifying, documenting and assessing this learning for advanced entry and/or credits in their programs of study. This webinar will share information on what the prior learning options are in BC, how to access these options, offering guidance on how identifying and documenting prior learning can lead to career advancement.

About the presenter

Susan Forseille - as the Director, Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR) at Thompson Rivers University, 22-years as a career-educator, and an enthusiastic researcher, Susan has been privileged to work in, and conduct research around, multiple intersections of career development, prior learning, and education. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Simon Fraser University, a Master of Education from Thompson Rivers University, and is currently completing her PhD with the University of Leicester. Susan is a passionate PLAR advocate believing adult learners acquire great amounts of knowledge and skills through life and work experience.

Session Presenter: Dr. Nan Travers

Dr. Nan Travers, Consultant, Intrascope, LLC, is recently retired as the director for the Center for Leadership in Credentialing Learning at SUNY Empire State University. Her work focuses on research, policies and practices of the recognition, validation, and credentialing of learning, nationally and globally.

She is the co-lead for the Credential As You Go national initiative, with past funding through Lumina Foundation, U.S. Department of Education Institute for Educational Sciences, and Walmart. She has been the PI for multiple other grants and projects focused on innovative strategies for prior learning assessment and credentialing.

Travers serves as founding co-editor for the journal: PLA Inside Out (www.plaio.org), is a co-founder of the Prior Learning Assessment Network (PLAN), and led the development of the Learning Recognition Toolkit, and open source website for institutions on prior learning processes. Her doctorate is in Adult Learning from the University of Connecticut.

BC Prior Learning Action Network
Email Address: info@bcplan.ca
Mailing Address: 300 - 722 Cormorant Street Victoria BC V8W 1P8