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Title: ABED%2016th%20Congress


1
ABED16th Congress
  • Pre-Conference Mini Course
  • Serving the Adult Transfer Student

2
Overview
  • Adult Degree Completion
  • Excelsior College
  • Aggregation
  • Assessment
  • Advising
  • Challenges

3
Adult Degree Completion
  • National priority
  • Barriers
  • Need for new thinking
  • Alternative methods

4
Obama Challange
  • Lead the world in of adults with
  • Bachelors degree by 2025
  • (increase from current 40 to 60)

5
Impact of Failure
  • Inadequate workforce
  • Movement of jobs
  • Declining economy
  • Reduced standard of living

6
Barriers
  • Time
  • Cost
  • Opportunity
  • Lack of infrastructure
  • Failure to see need

7
New Thinking
  • Extended education
  • Night/weekend programs
  • Correspondence courses
  • Use of technology

8
Alternatives
  • Online learning
  • New degree formats
  • Assessment of prior learning
  • Mass customization

9
Excelsior College
  • Influence of OU
  • Sister of three others
  • Self-supporting

10
History
  • Founded 1971 by State of New York
  • Focus Adult Learners
  • Philosophy What you know is more important
    than where or how learned
  • Mission Provide opportunity to those
    historically underserved by traditional higher
    education

11
Profile
  • Private, non-profit
  • 30,00 students /-
  • Largest nursing program in U.S.
  • Largest nuclear engineering in U.S.
  • 30 minority
  • 25-30 active military
  • Offer Associate, Bachelors, and Masters degrees

12
Adult Student Needs - Brazil
  • 1. Percentage with degrees?
  • 2. Options for completion/renewal?
  • 3. Barriers
  • 4. Resources
  • 5. Gaps

13
Methods
  • Aggregation
  • Assessment
  • Advising
  • Instruction

14
Aggregation
  • Combining multiple forms of learning
  • Prior instruction
  • Military/corporate training
  • Exam results
  • Professional experience (portfolio)

15
Assessment
  • Applicability of prior experience to specific
    degree requirements
  • Prior learning via examinations
  • Capstone

16
Advising
  • Match degree to student needs and to background
    (from assessment)
  • Determine areas of further study
  • Provide knowledge of how to complete
  • Guide through completion process

17
The Process
  • Transcripts

Aggregate
Exams
Military/CorpTraining
Consolidated Transcript
Compare to Degree Requirements
A
B
C
CHOOSE DEGREE PATH
18
Assessment
Degree Requirement
Consolidated Transcript
Path to Completion
Credit By Exam
External Institution
Internal Course Work
ADVISING
Capstone
Graduation
19
Excelsior Model in Brazil
  • What might fit?
  • What doesnt?
  • More Information

20
Challenges
  • Acceptance by traditional higher education
  • Awareness by prospective student
  • Perceived complexity
  • Too few laboratories

21
  • Questions
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