Streamlining and Tracking your CPL Program

Dr. Scott Campbell, Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL)

The Credit Predictor Pro standardizes the Credit for Prior Learning (CPL) process by providing institutions with a platform for collecting students’ experiential learning; allowing advisors to make CPL recommendations or route students credentials to faculty members for review. All interactions and CPL recommendations are tracked institution-wide for all levels of reporting. The Credit Predictor Pro provides higher ed institutions with a way to streamline the Credit for Prior Learning (CPL) intake process, making it easy for students to share their work expertise and credentials, and search your faculty-approved credential database for matches, all while giving your administration a lens into the CPL program.

Ute Adult Learner Credential Program

LaTitia Taylor, Southern Ute Tribe, Quintin Jacket, Mountain Ute Tribe, and O.H. Perry Pepper IV, Pueblo Community College Southwest

Successful community-based programs that offer industry credentials for adult learners in the Southern Ute and Ute Mountain Ute communities of Southwestern Colorado. IT (Information Technology) fundamentals, construction trades and drone aviation were selected as opportunities for tribal members and descendants to increase their employment opportunities through credential obtainment. Instructors are Tribal members, community members and Pueblo Community College staff with a goal to train future instructors from Ute communities. Results will take time and be small at first, but this work will fuel a cycle of success and solutions to build upon in these resilient communities. We invite you to come hear about this work and the Ute perspective on what this work means.

State-Wide Adult Learner Virtual Fair

Kayce O’Brien, Arapahoe Community College and Andy Carlson, CollegeAPP

Please join us to learn about the challenges and opportunities for hosting a system wide / state wide adult learner virtual fair. We will review lessons learned and our hopes for continued fairs in the future.

Presentation 1:

Digital Wallets, Learning and Employment Records and Verifiable Credentials: A Colorado Case Study

Allison Moran, Learning Economy Foundation

What is a digital learner wallet? How does a Learning and Employment Record (LER) work? Are verifiable credentials different from a transcript? These questions – and more – will be answered in the context of a case study session highlighting work in Colorado.

As learners seek to tell the full story of their skills, knowledge and experience and demonstrate their readiness for today’s economy, new tools have made it easier to connect learning to employment. Moreover, these tools have the potential to prioritize agency, equity, and economic mobility for all learners.

While many questions remain and the application and implementation is relatively nascent, one higher education system is piloting these tools. The session will explore the emerging pilot at the Auraria Campus – comprising the Community College of Denver, Metropolitan State University of Denver, and the University of Colorado – Denver – known as the Auraria Learning and Employment Ecosystem (ALEE). The new partnership is exploring flexible, interoperable, digital learner wallets and LERs.

The state of Colorado has prioritized the development of a modern, trust-based infrastructure that enables a statewide skills economy. The state’s investment – in both policy and resource – demonstrates how a skills-based and technology-integrated system will benefit learners, statewide.

Presentation 2:

Emerging Pilots in Workforce Development

Mike Macklin, Colorado Community College System

An overview of multiple System-level workforce development initiatives. Learn about digital badge projects, non-credit to credit pathways, and micro-pathways.

Supporting Student Parents at Community Colleges: A Basic Needs Approach

Beau Green and Megan Cuddihee Dempsey, Community College of Aurora

This session will focus on the 2022-2023 pilot Student Parent Support Services program at the Community College of Aurora. We will dive into our basic needs approach, results from the first cohort of supported scholars, and the future of supporting Student Parents. This session will include testimonies from our scholars, collaboration moments across campus, and information on how students are impacted by supporting their family and academic needs.