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What is Stackable Credentialing

Chapter 4
Career Ready Education Through Experiential Learning
An approach to earning a degree that enables a student to earn valuable, employment-worthy non-credit credentials that, through prior learning assessment (PLA) will convert into credits that ‘stack’ into a degree. For example, this chapter’s Figure 1 illustrates how a nationally recognized industry certification and a college credit certificate are converted into credits that apply toward the AS in Emergency Medical Services without losing or duplicating credits.
Published in Chapter:
Use of Experiential Learning in Higher Education Today
Julie Alexander (Miami Dade College, USA) and Phillip Giarraffa (Miami Dade College, USA)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 9
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1928-8.ch004
Abstract
One critical avenue for supporting experiential learning and learners is the award of credit through prior learning assessment and use of career pathways that are unique and individual to meet student needs and academic goals. Institutions must build on in-place practices and policies to enhance institutional infrastructure for translating non-credit coursework to certificate and degree programs, streamline internal business processes, and increase capacity through scaling to serve larger numbers of students in an effort to impact retention and completion.
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