Life Experience Deserves Credit.

Snider, John C.; McGee, Leo

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ERIC Number: EJ256628

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1981

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Life Experience Deserves Credit.

Snider, John C.; McGee, Leo

AGB Reports, v23 n6 p34-38 Nov-Dec 1981

Institutions granting credit for life experience are faced with obstacles related to the complex, sensitive, threatening, and ambitious nature of the procedure. A three-step process for implementation of a plan for developing credit for life experiences is provided, along with a dissenting opinion. (MLW)

Descriptors: Academic Standards, Adult Students, College Credits, Competency Based Education, Experiential Learning, Higher Education, Nontraditional Education, Prior Learning

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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