Working adults make up a significant portion of Minnesota’s current college-going population and bring with them learning experiences that can be evaluated for academic credit. Assessing their prior learning broadens pathways to credentials and fosters accelerated completion. The new workflow platform (My Credit for Prior Learning at Minnesota State (MyCPL for short) allows students to complete an online survey of their experiences, training, and certifications, and route them for review. MyCPL allows students, faculty, and staff to manage a student’s request and communicate along the way within the tool. It also provides a venue for everyone to view crosswalks - a list of standardized assessments, certifications, and training that have had credit equivalencies determined at Minnesota State campuses.
Session Objectives:- Become familiar with the Credit for Prior Learning Platform (MyCPL) and how it will be utilized by students, institutions, workforce agencies, and community organizations to assist students in obtaining Credit for Prior learning in their pursuit of advancing their education.
- Increase awareness of how Credit for Prior Learning promotes equity, and transparency while saving students time and money.
- Understand how the review guidelines, standards, and processes were developed to assess standardized learning outcomes resulting from non-collegiate certificates in trade, professional, and community based settings for potential credit recommendations.
ROOM HOSTS: - Larry Handlin (will be online hosting Zoom)
- Stephen Kelly (will be in the room)
