Coll100 Foudations of Online Learning General – Flashcards

Completed the university application and orientation process. Completed or received a waiver for COLL100 - Foundations of Online Learning and for basic English Composition (ENGL101). Completed the transfer credit evaluation (TCE) process if you have credits to transfer. Earned a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 2.0 for courses taken to date and are not on academic probation. Not yet applied for graduation or registered for a senior seminar course. Graduate Students Completed the university application and orientation process. Completed the transfer credit evaluation (TCE) process if you have credits to transfer. Have a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 for courses taken to date and are not on academic probation. Not yet applied for graduation or registered for a capstone or other end-of-program option. The PLA Portfolio To be awarded credit for prior learning, you must be able to demonstrate that you have met the learning objectives required in a university academic course. This is done by creating a portfolio. Your prior learning portfolio is a collection of materials or artifacts compiled to demonstrate previous college-level learning relevant to your academic degree plan. A portfolio consists of multiple required components. Each component plays a role in demonstrating mastery of course objectives. The components that make up a portfolio include: The Educational Goal Statement - This gives you the opportunity to examine your personal motivation in the context of learning and application of knowledge. This document provides prior learning evaluators with insight and helps them provide appropriate feedback to facilitate life-long learning. The Autobiography - The autobiography focuses on your professional and personal learning endeavors since high school. In writing the autobiography, you will analyze your past experiences in terms of critical incidents that led to learning. This part of the portfolio helps the evaluator understand when, how, and why the learning has occurred. The Resume - A resume allows you to highlight more detail about your responsibilities and accomplishments that have supported learning. The resume provides the evaluator with a timeline and demonstrates the progression of learning. The Narrative - This component is unique for every portfolio because the focus is on the learning objectives for a specific course. You must address each course objective found on the course syllabus, and demonstrate that you have mastered the objectives to the same extent as students who have completed the course. The narrative may be lengthy depending on the course. Documentation - You will need to supply documentation to support the narrative. Documentation is as individual as the learner. It may include items such as sample work products, training certificates, workplace evaluations, letters of recommendation, and/or photographs. View your academic plan or search our course schedule to view syllabi for individual courses. Submitting Portfolios You can submit a separate portfolio for each course for which you seek to earn credit, and certain components of your original portfolio may be used in multiple submissions. We strongly encourage you to work on one portfolio at a time, even if you plan to petition for credit for more than one course. This allows you to use feedback from the initial portfolio to inform the development of additional portfolios. Note: Independent study courses and the senior seminar are not eligible for PLA. PLA Undergraduate Course - COLL 200 If you are accepted into the undergraduate PLA program, you must enroll in COLL200, which is a mandatory 8-week, 3-credit-hour elective course designed to help you think and write about your prior experience in terms of the learning that resulted. The PLA course provides specific exercises to assist you in the identification of individual prior learning that may be credit-worthy. Upon completion of the course, you will have developed one PLA portfolio. You are only required to take COLL200 once, but can submit more than one portfolio for evaluation upon successful completion of the course. The review of the first portfolio is done as part of the course tuition, and there is a $250 fee for the submission of each additional portfolio. As an example, you could earn 6 academic credits for the price of 3 credits plus $250. Note: This fee is non-refundable even if the review does not result in the award of academic credit. PLA Workshop for Graduate Students Graduate students are required to participate in a no-cost/no-credit workshop that will assist you in the identification of individual prior learning that may be credit-worthy. You will work through a variety of exercises to analyze your experiences in terms of learning and to develop the various portfolio components. This self-paced workshop can be completed independently in about 4 weeks. Throughout the workshop, a PLA team member provides feedback on assignments and portfolio components. You will complete the portfolio by the end of the workshop, though final editing of it might take a bit longer. Credits Awarded Credit petitioned via PLA must be for a specific university course within your academic program, but cannot be applied toward seminar, capstone, and/or independent study courses. The university awards credit for college-level/graduate level learning that can be assessed and documented. Credit is awarded for learning, not experience. Evidence is critical for a successful portfolio. Your prior learning must be: Related to your current educational goals and objectives. College-level/graduate level and be relevant to a specific course for which the university grants academic credit. Transferable to situations other than that in which it was gained. Accompanied by the application of appropriate theories. Include evidence to support having achieved course learning objectives, samples include: Certifications/training certificates Professional evaluations Awards/commendations PLA credits are considered "non-traditional" transfer credits. Accrediting guidelines limit the amount of non-traditional credit applied toward degree completion as follows: Graduate-level Certificates - no more than 3 semester hours Associate - no more than 15 semester hours Bachelor's - no more than 30 semester hours Master's - no more than 9 semester hours Credit for the Prior Learning course - COLL200 will be applied to elective credits with a letter grade. Credit received for prior learning will be posted to the academic transcript in fulfillment for the course petitioned as PLA credit and counted toward transfer credit limits. There is no letter grade assigned and it is not factored into the GPA. Note: PLA credit awarded cannot duplicate previously awarded credit. Interested in PLA? Download the PLA FAQ'sIf you are an undergraduate student, please take this quick PLA self-assessment quiz to determine if the PLA program is right for you. The PLA office will review the self-assessment and your academic plan. If it is determined that you are eligible to participate in the PLA program, you will be asked to provide supplemental information and receive feedback. Graduate students must be approved by the PLA team to participate in the program. Please email [email protected] to request application instructions. For more information, please contact the staff of the Prior Learning Assessment office at [email protected] or visit our student Help Center.

helps you develop keywords for in-depth research.

False

background, in-depth background, in-depth

Your library databases

break down your assignment into more manageable pieces.

It will familiarize you with relevant terminology and help you narrow your topic.

Scholarly journal article

Your topic is too narrow.

It should not be debatable.

Standardized tests are not beneficial to student learning, because test prep takes time away from in-depth instruction and test questions do not accurately assess student understanding.

usa.gov

A book of nonfiction published in 2014 exploring the legacy of the events.

Because articles are written by scholars and reviewed by other scholars in the field.

They can have either general or more specific subjects such as economics, history, or science.

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Consult library research/course guides or a librarian.

title, abstract, subject headings

General reference

Databases provide access to scholarly results and better search options than those found on the open web.

Good keywords give you better search results.

Doctors OR physician OR nurses

True

Not citing your sources is plagiarism. Citing your sources shows your reader what sources you used in your research. Acknowledging your sources contributes to the scholarly conversation on the topic you are researching.

Using all your own ideas

Age of author

Citations do not need to be written in a specific order.

Not citing your sources is plagiarism. Citing your sources shows your reader what sources you used in your research. Acknowledging your sources contributes to the scholarly conversation on the topic you are researching.

Quoting a source Paraphrasing a source Using a statistic

Copyright page

In-text and Reference List

Science, Social science

n.d.

Author

In parentheses

Humanities

Works Cited Page

It's wise to choose an organizational system based on how well it fits your needs, not the specific technology.

Using only your computer hard drive limits the flexibility you have in accessing your files.

Because it could be difficult or impossible to reconstruct if lost. Because you may want to share your research findings with others. Because it might be gathered over the course of many weeks or months.

True

include information on the researcher's process or methods.

experimental design.

Results and Discussion

Title and Abstract

you need to have background information to easily read a scholarly article or book.

True

Visual literacy skills

False

Page design Photo or image selection Quote selection

Persuasive

ensures that your voice is heard in academic conversations while showing respect for the work of others.

True

When you use quotations When you paraphrase When you summarize

False

Clearly discerning your work from the work of others