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Open Learning and Formal Credentialing in Higher Education: Curriculum Models and Institutional Policies
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Reushle, Shirley, Ed.; Antonio, Amy, Ed.; Keppell, Mike, Ed. – IGI Global, 2016
The discipline of education is a multi-faceted system that must constantly integrate new strategies and procedures to ensure successful learning experiences. Enhancements in education provide learners with greater opportunities for growth and advancement. "Open Learning and Formal Credentialing in Higher Education: Curriculum Models and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Adult Education, Student Centered Learning, Open Education
Credentialing Educational Accomplishment. Report and Recommendations of the Task Force on Educational Credit and Credentials.
Miller, Jerry W., Ed.; Mills, Olive, Ed. – 1978
The Task Force on Educational Credit and Credentials of the American Council on Education undertook a two-year study to determine how postsecondary education's system for awarding credit and credentials can be changed or its adequacy improved to meet today's educational and social needs. This book sets forth the Task Force's report and…
Descriptors: Achievement, Adult Students, Articulation (Education), Awards
Selected Papers of the Commission on Education for Health Administration: Volume II.
Commission on Education for Health Administration, Washington, DC. – 1975
The second volume of the Commission on Education for Health Administration's report contains papers generated to supplement other commission efforts, in areas that seemed to need special attention, and in which special expertise was available. The first three papers are reports on research projects undertaken by commission members in fields of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Education, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Role
Diversity by Design.
Commission on Non-Traditional Study, New York, NY. – 1973
The final report of a 2-year study by the Commission on Non-Traditional Study (sponsored by the College Entrance Examination Board and the Educational Testing Service), the book deals with lifelong learning, external degrees, institutional reshaping, and educational alternatives. Suggestions and recommendations of the commission reflect the…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Adult Education, Books, Colleges
Relating Work and Education. Current Issues in Higher Education 1977.
Vermilye, Dyckman; Ferris, William, Eds. – 1977
The relationship between education and work is examined in relation to improving the quality of life. Part one provides a philosophical framework in which the authors reject the idea that work and education should be oriented toward porducing goods and making money, but should contribute to the growth and development of the workers. Part two…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Careers, College Role, Core Curriculum
The Social Work Portfolio: Planning, Assessing and Documenting Lifelong Learning in a Dynamic Profession.
Cournoyer, Barry R.; Stanley, Mary J. – 2002
This book is designed to help social work students prepare a social work portfolio to be used as a learning guide, and following graduation, as a tool to maintain their social work licenses or other pertinent professional credentials. There are independent and collaborative group learning exercises as well as portfolio preparation exercises…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Career Development, Career Information Systems, Career Ladders
Learning Policy: Towards the Certified Society.
Ainley, Patrick – 1999
This book, which traces the emergence of an official state-sanctioned learning policy for education and training in the United Kingdom, examines how the country's government has taken a concerted approach to accomplishing the following two goals: (1) integrating the reproduction of knowledge at all levels in the educational institutions under…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Apprenticeships, Competence, Continuing Education