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How to Find and Interpret Occupations- Online Course/Occupational Specialty Guide/Course Transfer Guides

http://militaryguides.acenet.edu/OccupationSearch.asp

http://academicgps.org/

http://www.collegetransfer.net/Home/InsideCollegeTransferNet/StudentPassport/tabid/965/Default.aspx

How to Find and Interpret Occupations

http://militaryguides.acenet.edu/FindAndInterpretOcc.htm

Labels: STUDENT PASSPORTS FROM ONE CAMPUS TO ANOTHER COURSE TRANSFER AND EQUIVALENCIES

SCHOOL TALK

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School Talk is a monthly forum for the community of the Department of Defense Education Activity, your chance to interact directly with DoDEA's leaders as they discuss topics related to educating the children of Americas service members. We want to make School Talk as accessible as possible and have scheduled each Area's show at 3:00 PM local time on the first, second, and third Tuesday of every month for the Americas, Europe, and the Pacific respectively. What we would like to know is if 3:00 PM is convenient for you, and if not, what other time would you recommend and why?

40 percent of America’s 16 million college and university students are aged 25 and older
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Stop Bullying Video Challenge

http://stopbullying.challenge.gov/

MONEY IN THE BANK!!!!- ACADEMIC DEPOSITS ARE MADE LIKE MONEY DEPOSITS IN A BANK!

CREDIT BANKS OPERATE LIKE MONEY BANKS

DEMONSTRATIVE EXPERIENTIAL LEARNER PROFILES

EXPERENTIAL LEARNING

OCCUPATIONAL SPECIALTIES
The Lifelong Learning Resource Center
http://www.acenet.edu/Content/NavigationMenu/ProgramsServices/CLLL/ResourceCenter/index.htm

ACE's Center for Lifelong Learning (CLLL) has led the national movement to recognize and promote adult learner programs in higher education. A national leader in shaping policies, practices, and perceptions about continuous learning, the Center's commitment to adult learners includes programs, services, tools, and research to help bridge the gaps in serving diverse learners, alleviating workforce shortages, and meeting professional education demands in order to support access to and success in postsecondary education.
http://www.acenet.edu/AM/Template.cfm?Section=CLLL

(EXAMPLE VIEW)
THE UOP SOFT SKILL/CREDIT EVALUATION WEBPAGES
http://www.skillsoft.com/about/credit_programs/academic_credit_programs/documents/UoP.pdf

http://www.vafire.com/higher_education/U%20of%20P%20Review%205-09.pdf

COMPETENCY BASED-KNOWLEDGE AREAS

WORKPLACE BASED - LEARNING EXPERIENCES

The ACE National Guide to College Credit for Workforce Training contains ACE credit recommendations for formal courses or examinations offered by various organizations, from businesses and unions to the government and military.

http://www2.acenet.edu/credit/?fuseaction=browse.main

INFORMAL/FORMAL
LARGE/SMALL CORPORATIONS
ACE and the business community
http://www.acenet.edu/Content/NavigationMenu/Membership/TAP/index.htm
APPRENTICESHIPS
etc.. FEMA or Federal Aviation Association
WORK/LIFE BALANCE

ePortfolios- Academic GPS

(1) ACE - American Council on Education
publishes : Guide to the evaluation of educational experiences in the armed forces
and

National guide to educational credit for training programs
https://www.acenet.edu/nationalguide/

Florida's Statewide Course Numbering System.
http://scns.fldoe.org/scns/public/pb_index.jsp

(2) New York National Program on Noncollegiate Sponsored Instruction

INDUSTRY TRADE ASSOCIATIONS

21st-century skills: Critical thinking

http://www.phoenix.edu/forward/careers/2011/08/21st-century-skills-critical-thinking.html

New technologies and social media platforms are driving an

unprecedented reorganization of how we produce and create

value. Amplified by a new level of collective intelligence

and tapping resources embedded in social connections with

multitudes of others, we can now achieve the kind of scale

and reach previously attainable only by very large organizations.

In other words, we can do things outside of traditional

organizational boundaries.

To “superstruct” means to create structures that go beyond

the basic forms and processes with which we are familiar. It

means to collaborate and play at extreme scales, from the

micro to the massive. Learning to use new social tools to

work, to invent, and to govern at these scales is what the

next few decades are all about.

Our tools and technologies shape the kinds of social,

economic, and political organizations we inhabit. Many

organizations we are familiar with today, including educational

and corporate ones, are products of centuries-old

scientific knowledge and technologies. Today we see this

organizational landscape being disrupted. In health, organizations

such as Curetogether and PatientsLikeMe are allowing

people to aggregate their personal health information to

allow for clinical trials and emergence of expertise outside

of traditional labs and doctors’ offices. Science games, from

Foldit to GalaxyZoo, are engaging thousands of people to

solve problems no single organization had the resources to

do before. Open education platforms are increasingly making

content available to anyone who wants to learn.

A new generation of organizational concepts and work skills

is coming not from traditional management/organizational

theories but from fields such as game design, neuroscience,

and happiness psychology. These fields will drive the

creation of new training paradigms and tools.

Center for Lifelong Learning Publications

		Ensuring Success for Returning Veterans (2010) (PDF)

		Mapping New Directions: Older Adults in Higher Education (2008) (PDF)

		Framing New Terrain: Older Adults and Higher Education (2007) (PDF)

		Adult Learners in the United States: A National Profile (2006)

		Improving Lives Through Higher Education: Campus Programs and Policies for Low-Income Adults (2005)

		Low-Income Adults in Profile: Improving Lives Through Higher Education (2004)

		Pocket Guide to College Credits and Degrees: Valuable Information for Adult Learners (2004)

		Joint Statement on the Transfer and Award of Credit (2002)

		Bridges of Opportunity: A History of the Center for Adult Learning and Educational Credentials (2001)

		Distance Learning Evaluation Guide (2001)

Is College for Everyone?

http://www.militarychild.org/blog/is-college

Andrea Mitchell sat down at the Aspen Ideas Festival with the Lumina Foundation’s Jamie Merisotis and Miami Dade College President Eduardo Padron to explore whether a college degree is the right choice for all students. Click here to view video.http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nbc-news/48199472/#48199472

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Education of the Military Child in the 21st Century

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A Report on the Research Conducted by the Military Child Education Coalition
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the changing environment of serving 21st Century learners,Fostering Student Success-Fostering Institution Success

http://www.academyone.com/insights/in-the-cloud#tab4

AcademyOne hosts an innovative higher education cloud for web portals and mobile applications that serve government agencies, institutions and learners. The company builds and powers applications for navigating college transfer, transforming student guidance, facilitating curriculum alignment and connecting disparate data silos to provide better guidance information for learners, advisors and their stakeholders. Select a team that invests in your success and has the experience, wisdom and technology to help bring your ideas to life.

Six million courses are transferred each year, and the manual articulation procedures which include processing transcripts for assessing coursework and assigning transfer credits can’t keep up with the volume. Most of the practices which rely on paper based, outdated, inefficient and mistake ridden methods are costly both in terms of dollars and missed opportunities. Worse, some providers utilize stale and antiquated datasets that amass huge trails of past transfer experiences contaminated by lack of attention and coding errors caused by lack of systematic processes and lack of resources. Administrative costs for each transfer request average $500. The total cost in the US is $3.5 billion to assess prior learning using current methods.
There are two general strategies to addressing student mobility and academic credit portability:

Proactive is predetermined and planned in advance reducing the friction and impact of the movement. Study abroad programs and student exchange programs come to mind because they are well prepared to address the process and events.
Reactive is the method of waiting for the student to leave one education provider and enroll in another leaving several consequences uncharted. Students often can take off time and the currency of their prior learning may be called into question.

AcademyOne helps institutions take control of data -Institutions face many challenges to keep up with the pace and rate of ‘transfer-in’ and ‘transfer-out’ enrollment.AcademyOne helps institutions take control of data -

Data, Data Everywhere...

Institutions face many challenges to keep up with the pace and rate of ‘transfer-in’ and ‘transfer-out’ enrollment. The phenomenon known as student churn or swirling enrollment describes student enrollment patterns that span multiple postsecondary providers. The evaluation of transcripts and assessment of prior learning, such as credit-by-examination and military credits, create an abundance of work for academic professionals, delay the progress of students and counteract expensive marketing and enrollment efforts.
A proliferation of online learning providers and alternative course taking methods has increased the evaluation of credit workload tenfold. Today it is not uncommon for institutions to evaluate three to six transcripts per student which may span years or decades of college level learning. Students of all ages expect websites and mobile applications to quickly deliver accurate, up-to-date credit transfer information.

AcademyOne helps institutions take control of data to...

Save time by eliminating redundancies in the transfer credit evaluation process.
Reduce paperwork and improve decision making workflow with consolidated data repositories of course information and course equivalency data.
Integrate and synchronize transfer and articulation, SIS and portal data silos for accurate, comprehensive, holistic data views.
Offer data and decision dashboards that are meaningful based on user roles such as advisor, registrar, faculty member, department chair and administrator.
Reduce the burden on institutions to share, update and promote transfer options, articulation agreements and degree completion pathways with students and advisors.
Lower administrative and marketing costs on transfer student recruitment and enrollment.
Offer prospective and current students web and mobile based self-service.
Retain students with degree planning tools that recognize multi-institutional pathways.
Improve graduation rates by expanding degree completion options to include transfer credit.
Generate system reports to inform decision making, measure usage, verify policy compliance and reveal data patterns and trends.

AcademyOne helps institutions manage the volume and complexity of academic decision making with higher education software solutions that proactively and methodically address academic mobility.

Course equivalency management system

The Challenge of Managing Course Equivalencies Offline and Standalone

Course equivalency management practices vary significantly throughout the United States. There are reactive and proactive course assessment practices that feed course equivalency system databases. The assessment practices are influenced by roles, perceptions, volume and orientation. Institutions generally have been impeded by the lack of systematic practices because standalone tools such as Degree Audit and Transfer Articulation are complex and labor intensive to sustain over time. Reviewing past transfer circumstances reveals how a student's prior coursework is assessed and judged based on the characteristics of the source institution. Some measure the student's learning outcomes through assessments tests. Prior learning is not just classroom based, yet seat time is a major factor in comparing courses. Rigor and course quality is viewed through different perspectives and lenses.
There are common assessment patterns worth mentioning. Some institutions create and update a course equivalency database as students matriculate and request transfer credit. Transfer decisions are impacted by how the student defends their prior learning and assessment. These decisions transversely impact how courses are marked comparable or likely comparable or unique. The course equivalency or transfer articulation tables are sometimes posted on transfer websites, which offers some level of self-assessment by students prior to enrollment and matriculation. Upon application, transcripts are forwarded to the receiver and are queued for review by transfer specialists who break down the coursework by department, level and perceptions of the source course and institution. Some institutions create course equivalencies following newly published transfer articulation agreements. Some institutions create course equivalencies following the guidelines of state-wide transfer agreements. The joint efforts to align programs of study between senders and receivers are proactive and designed to streamline transfer enrollment steps and lessen the burden on transfer evaluation. Other institutions choose to perform one-off assessments, and they do not track the implications and repeating nature of course assessment.

http://www.academyone.com/products/knowitall-portals/knowitall-portals-features/course-equivalency-management-center

Features of CEMC

Create and maintain equivalencies
Make proposals to other institutions and track them
Increase your direct equivalencies using systematic opportunities
Manage evaluations that are proposed to your institution and review equivalencies when source institutions update their catalogs
Create reports and extract your data
Review course profiles side-by-side
Send out requests to department heads and other recipients to review the course information
Specify notes and conditions that will be useful to students
Save started evaluations to complete at a later date
Evaluate proposals sent to your institution from another
Review your direct equivalencies where the source course has been updated due to a new course catalog
Create a number of reports based on equivalency data and past evaluations. Reports can be exported in Word, Excel, and PDF formats.

A key challenge is the isolated and standalone nature of evaluating prior learning without access to the source course information
As a result, many institutions re-key course information from senders into their systems to retain the record links needed in several places. This duplication of effort adds time to the assessment process, potentially introduces errors and often frustrates students and advisors with delays that impact course planning and enrollment.

The Power of Sharing ONE Solution

AcademyOne's Course Equivalency Management Center (CEMC) is designed to streamline an institution's course assessment process and provide access to course equivalency information for current and prospective students, advisors, faculty and administrators. CEMC is a course equivalency management system that can be used by a community of institutions or a single institution across its departments. Join a community of institutions working together - sharing tools and a course database that accelerates and simplifies course assessment processes.

The Challenge of Managing Course Equivalencies Offline and Standalone

Course equivalency management practices vary significantly throughout the United States. There are reactive and proactive course assessment practices that feed course equivalency system databases. The assessment practices are influenced by roles, perceptions, volume and orientation. Institutions generally have been impeded by the lack of systematic practices because standalone tools such as Degree Audit and Transfer Articulation are complex and labor intensive to sustain over time. Reviewing past transfer circumstances reveals how a student's prior coursework is assessed and judged based on the characteristics of the source institution. Some measure the student's learning outcomes through assessments tests. Prior learning is not just classroom based, yet seat time is a major factor in comparing courses. Rigor and course quality is viewed through different perspectives and lenses.
There are common assessment patterns worth mentioning. Some institutions create and update a course equivalency database as students matriculate and request transfer credit. Transfer decisions are impacted by how the student defends their prior learning and assessment. These decisions transversely impact how courses are marked comparable or likely comparable or unique. The course equivalency or transfer articulation tables are sometimes posted on transfer websites, which offers some level of self-assessment by students prior to enrollment and matriculation. Upon application, transcripts are forwarded to the receiver and are queued for review by transfer specialists who break down the coursework by department, level and perceptions of the source course and institution. Some institutions create course equivalencies following newly published transfer articulation agreements. Some institutions create course equivalencies following the guidelines of state-wide transfer agreements. The joint efforts to align programs of study between senders and receivers are proactive and designed to streamline transfer enrollment steps and lessen the burden on transfer evaluation. Other institutions choose to perform one-off assessments, and they do not track the implications and repeating nature of course assessment.

Features of CEMC

Create and maintain equivalencies
Make proposals to other institutions and track them
Increase your direct equivalencies using systematic opportunities
Manage evaluations that are proposed to your institution and review equivalencies when source institutions update their catalogs
Create reports and extract your data
Review course profiles side-by-side
Send out requests to department heads and other recipients to review the course information
Specify notes and conditions that will be useful to students
Save started evaluations to complete at a later date
Evaluate proposals sent to your institution from another
Review your direct equivalencies where the source course has been updated due to a new course catalog
Create a number of reports based on equivalency data and past evaluations. Reports can be exported in Word, Excel, and PDF formats.

A key challenge is the isolated and standalone nature of evaluating prior learning without access to the source course information
As a result, many institutions re-key course information from senders into their systems to retain the record links needed in several places. This duplication of effort adds time to the assessment process, potentially introduces errors and often frustrates students and advisors with delays that impact course planning and enrollment.

The Power of Sharing ONE Solution

AcademyOne's Course Equivalency Management Center (CEMC) is designed to streamline an institution's course assessment process and provide access to course equivalency information for current and prospective students, advisors, faculty and administrators. CEMC is a course equivalency management system that can be used by a community of institutions or a single institution across its departments. Join a community of institutions working together - sharing tools and a course database that accelerates and simplifies course assessment processes.

CEMC is a web-hosted application on CollegeTransfer.Net and Built-In with KnowITAll Portals.

By using a shared web application, your institution avoids the time consuming tasks of database maintenance and version upgrades, while still maintaining autonomy in the decision making embedded in course assessment practices. CEMC can be customized to fit your institutional workflow and decision tree. The system enables institutions to set up multiple users to participate in the review of a proposed equivalency. Decision makers can request additional information such as course syllabus or learning outcomes and record their decision to accept or decline approval. Details on when and why a course equivalency was accepted or declined become a part of the permanent record of the course equivalency. In addition, all of the documents that were used to make the decision remain attached to the course equivalency for future reference.

A Shared Course Equivalency Database Supports Proactive Transfer and Articulation Initiatives

To reduce the institutional burden maintaining a course equivalency database standalone, the AcademyOne's Course Atlas database is refreshed with the latest course offerings published by institutions or syndicated when published by institutiins. The Course Equivalency Management Center alerts users of course changes and their impact on course equivalencies and transfer articulation. The potential for creating new course equivalencies is made possible by an inference engine that scans all course equivalencies across the Course Atlas database. These are invaluable tools for expanding the range of course equivalencies and preventing them from becoming out of date.

Make Your Information Transparent

By sharing a a multi-institutional course database and repository storing programs of study, faculty, course, subject and more, you help evaluators assess and compare programs, course and level of instruction between educational providers. This allows everyone to see the common view of information, characteristics and attributes.

Streamline Your Academic Guidance

Create systematic workflows between administrative and academic departments. Queue assessment tasks and track the results. Provide an auditable process that shows the assessment decision tree and feedback. Send alerts through email. Track course proposals and course evaluations to optimize collaborative efforts across departments, institutions and groups of institutions. Discover indirect and potential reciprocal equivalencies easily and block accept them. Customize the workflow decision tree by department, college and academic oversight respective of governance. Outline and upload course learning outcomes, syllabi and have proof of systematic review. Publish course equivalency information and attachments if desired. Create Transfer Credit Frameworks and align coursework from one to many institutions. Align course work with AP, IB, CLEP and other assessments.

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