May 16, 2011
College Credit for Life Experience: 2 Groups Offer Assessment Services
Add one more thing to the list of tasks that colleges can outsource.
This time, it's assessing "experiential learning"—that is, the skills students have gained in the workplace and other life trials—and determining how many credit hours should be awarded for that learning. Two fledgling organizations are game.
The idea of handing such decisions to outsiders might make some faculty members wince. But the services' creators say that their networks of portfolio
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