Bobbi Stedman, a Business and Leadership major, recently completed her Prior Learning Assessment Portfolio, earning 35 credits for knowledge that she gained through her professional and personal experiences. She wrote for the following courses: Team Building: Managing Work Groups Great Meetings! Planning and Facilitating Difficult Group Discussion Leadership Communication Managing Transitions Conflict Management Negotiation Legal [...]
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Time Management, Planning, And Proofreading Result In 35 credits!
Posted in Adult Learners, Higher Education, PLA, Time Management, Writing, tagged adultlearners, highereducation, PLA, time, Writing on December 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
He Learned A Lot In High School (Working There!)
Posted in Adult Learners, Higher Education, PLA, tagged adultlearners, highereducation, PLA on December 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Greg Carradine, a Human Communication major, recently completed his 32-credit Prior Learning Assessment Portfolio — CONGRATULATIONS, GREG! Greg used his personal experiences as well as those from his professional life as a high school teacher and athletic coach to demonstrate his college-level competency for these courses: Effective Listening Small Group Communication Conflict Management Nonverbal Communication [...]
67 Years of Learning! Next Step? Graduate School!
Posted in Adult Learners, Higher Education, PLA, tagged adultlearners, highereducation, PLA on December 20, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Velda Metelmann recently completed her undergraduate degree in Interdisciplinary Studies, with concentrations in English Literature & Writing and Human Studies, and is now in a graduate program to earn her Masters! Congratulations, Velda! As part of her undergraduate program, Velda earned 25 credits for the following courses through Prior Learning Assessment: Effective Listening Public Presentations [...]
One Year Closer To Graduating Because Of PLA!
Posted in Adult Learners, Experience, Higher Education, PLA, tagged adultlearners, Assessment, experience, highereducation, PLA on December 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Carleen Walsh, an Interdisciplinary Studies major with concentrations in Early Childhood Education, Psychology, and Literature, recently completed her Prior Learning Assessment Portfolio, earning 45 credits for knowledge she gained through her professional and personal experiences – that’s the maximum number of PLA credits a Marylhurst student can earn! Here is a list of the courses [...]
So How, Exactly, Will Learning Be Assessed?
Posted in Adult Learners, Assessment, Employment, Experience, Learning, PLA, Technology, Work, tagged adultlearners, Assessment, badges, Employment, experience, Learning, PLA, Technology, Work on November 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I am trying to understand badges. Given my background with Prior Learning Assessment programs and other forms of experiential learning, I totally get the idea conceptually. (Hey – I know a few boy and girl scouts too! They’ve earned badges for things they learned and could do too, right?) Apparently, with a badge: You can [...]
Learning A New Way To Learn Through PLA
Posted in Adult Learners, Learning, PLA, tagged adultlearners, Learning, PLA on October 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In May 2011. Stephanie Lillegard completed her 30-credit Prior Learning Assessment portfolio. For Stephanie, it was a journey of learning, as she explains here: Stephanie is an Interdisciplinary Studies major with concentrations in Human Sciences and English, Literature, and Writing. She wrote PLA essays on the following topics: ED 109: Library Procedures ED 114: Reference [...]
Thirty-Five!
Posted in Adult Learners, PLA, tagged adultlearners, Marylhurst, PLA on May 16, 2011 | 2 Comments »
THIRTY-FIVE! This week we are celebrating the 35th anniversary of the PLA program at Marylhurst. In 1976, the first Marylhurst student was awarded college credit for learning he obtained from his work and life experience, and ever since then, the program has been a key to acknowledging the learning our adult students bring with them. [...]
The 3 R’s Revised: Relationship, Relevancy, and Rigor
Posted in Adult Learners, Learning, PLA, Teaching, tagged adultlearners, Learning, PLA, Teaching on April 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Christine Caton, our relatively new PLA faculty member, wrote this great essay in the latest version of Marylhurst’s Adult Learning Newsletter. As she reflects on her own learning to teach online, she challenges us instructors to establish and maintain relationships with our students, to provide relevancy, and to ensure rigor in our online teaching. As [...]
On Being An Adult Learner
Posted in Adult Learners, Assessment Leadership Academy, tagged adultlearners, Assessment, leadership on March 16, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The Assessment Leadership Academy I am participating in has begun, and I feel like a student on the first day of class again. It’s been a while since I’ve been in this position — this position of student – as it’s been a while since I’ve taken a course, and I am particularly mindful of [...]
Learning To Dream Again
Posted in Adult Learners, PLA, Work, tagged adultlearners, Employment, highereducation, PLA, Work on March 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Catherine Hooper, an Organizational Communications major at Marylhurst University, recently finished her 9-credit PLA Portfolio for the following topics: COL 427 Great Meetings: Planning and Facilitating Difficult Group Discussion CCM 321 Small Group Communication COL 426 Team Building: Managing Work Groups In her Final Portfolio Reflection essay, Catherine wrote: The PLA program was especially valuable [...]
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