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- Title: Building Knowledge Through Portfolio Learning in Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (Report)
- Author : Quarterly Review of Distance Education
- Release Date : January 22, 2008
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 227 KB
Description
One of McLuhan and Fiore's often-quoted aphorisms states that "we look at the present through a rear-view mirror" (1967, p. 75). Broadly speaking, distance education has provided us with the opportunity to look backwards on traditional forms of education in order to understand best practices in today's e-learning world. Similarly, our increased use of learning technologies that are the handmaiden of distance education has forced us to revisit the nature of society, technology, identity, and culture (Beaudoin, 2006; Postman, 1993). And, in a more specific application of McLuhan and Fiore's prescient thinking, institutions of open and distance learning that practise prior learning assessment and recognition (PLAR) as an access-enhancing tool are newly challenged by the arrival of e-portfolios to reexamine the roles of PLAR and portfolios within their learning cultures. To that end, this article will identify and situate the PLAR portfolio process as a knowledge-building process within the post secondary learning culture. In doing so, it will briefly review the history and context of PLAR; describe and examine the generic portfolio approach; discuss the pedagogy of portfolio construction; and consider the potential of the e-portfolio as a learning tool. A short case study of current PLAR use at an open and distance university will provide context.
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