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Arielle Lentz; Kenneth Shores – Partnership for Public Education, 2024
In Delaware, Career and Technical Education (CTE) prepares students for life beyond high school by providing practical labor skills, workforce credentials, and early post secondary credits. Some CTE students graduate with the distinction as a concentrator, meaning they complete required coursework in a specific career pathway, such as engineering…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Career Pathways, Equal Education, High School Students
Plumlee, Tucker; Klein-Collins, Rebecca – Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, 2017
In 2015, the U.S. Department of Labor invited postsecondary institutions to participate in an experiment to learn how federal financial aid might be used to cover the costs of prior learning assessment (PLA). PLA is the process of evaluating a student's prior workplace and experiential learning for academic credit. While the experiment is still…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Success, Federal Aid, Experiential Learning
Cooper, Linda; Ralphs, Alan; Harris, Judy – Studies in Continuing Education, 2017
This article provides some insight into the constraints on the potential of recognition of prior learning (RPL) to widen access to educational qualifications. Its focus is on a conceptual framework that emerged from a South African study of RPL practices across four different learning contexts. Working from a social realist perspective, it argues…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Inclusion, Foreign Countries, Program Implementation
Klein-Collins, Rebecca; Bransberger, Peace; Lane, Patrick – Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, 2021
Previous research from the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) and the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) found that prior learning assessment/credit for prior learning (PLA/CPL) 1 has a positive effect on adult student credential completion--an effect that was evident for every student subgroup analyzed in a…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Experiential Learning, Higher Education, Prior Learning
Torrance, Deirdre; Notman, Ross; Murphy, Daniel – Scottish Educational Review, 2016
There is growing awareness of the contribution teachers can make to school leadership, particularly in relation to improvements in curriculum and pedagogy. Teacher leadership offers the potential to engage teachers in bottom-up approaches to school improvement and liberate the professional creativity of teachers. Despite such positioning, clearer…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Leadership, Experiential Learning, Investigations
Tigchelaar, Anke; Brouwer, Niels; Vermunt, Jan D. – Educational Research Review, 2010
Many countries suffer from teacher shortages. One possible solution to this problem is to recruit second-career teachers. These second-career teachers form an intriguing group. They bring an abundance of previous experiences into a new, professional domain. The purpose of this study is to identify pedagogical principles that support the training…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Career Change, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Education
Harmer, Brian M. – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2009
Few students in pursuit of baccalaureate business degrees seem to have spent significant time in organisations of the kind studied and discussed in the courses that typify such degrees. This paper questions the extent to which the students' lack of business exposure is perceived by teachers as a barrier to effective learning and teaching. It…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Business Administration Education, Barriers, Undergraduate Students
Conrad, Dianne – Open Learning, 2010
Although the recognition of learners' experiential learning toward postsecondary credentials holds the promise of increased flexibility and opportunity for many, especially in the current climate of labour shortage, Canadian universities have been slow to adopt recognition of prior learning (RPL) systems. This case study of one Canadian…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Credentials, Prior Learning, Experiential Learning
Morgan, Christopher K.; Cox, Rod – Journal of Learning Design, 2006
Taking students out into the field to visit properties has been a foundation of agricultural education practice in Australian higher education. These excursions are invariably popular with students, but their enjoyment of these activities may be largely due to factors other than the achievement of learning outcomes. This paper reports on a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Agricultural Education, Higher Education, College Students