ESRALE Report on VPL

Central to the EC supported project ESRALE (European Scientific Research-program on Adult Learning & Education)is the creation of a sustainable lifelong learning-culture in higher education. In relation to Validation of Prior Learning (VPL) methodology, four learning modules were developed to support and update practitioners on the developments of the past few years. These modules are:

• self-management of competences
• assessment and vocational guiding
• train-the-trainer in portfolio build-up
• institutional portfolio-management

One of the deliverables of the ERSALE project is a report on VPL entitled "Access to lifelong learning in higher education through Validation of Prior Learning”. This report provides the building-blocks for enhancing an approach towards VPL-steered learning strategies in terms of an analysis in the first part of (inter)national policy developments, analysing best practices of VPL-systematics in different countries, the formulation of four main models for VPL-steered learning-strategies and the critical success factors regarding the implementation of VPL-systematics in the higher education context.

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