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This paper presents the activity carried out inside a work package (WP7) of the ISEKI_Food 3 Academic Network
project (2008-2011) dedicated to the facilitation and promotion of Life Long Learning in higher education. In fact,
recognition of prior learning is an essential tool to foster lifelong learning within the European Higher Education Area.
Professionals could be more attracted to go back higher education if their competences would be adequately recognised
as credits in the programmes they want to study and complete. Within the aims of the cited work package, recognition
or accreditation of learning performed in non academic environment (“prior learning”) by means of the network
partners was investigated. Owing to the presentation of the aim and objective of the topic, we present the results of a
questionnaire set-up to be filled on-line by ISEKI_Food partners, in order to collect information around the
consideration of prior experiences and /or learning activity, certificated when possible, are recognized by University to
obtain ECTS in order to facilitate the student’s curriculum. Maximum of credits to be recognized, disciplines more
frequently subjected to this procedure of recognition, type of agreement between university and other institutions
(secondary schools, training agencies, etc,), prior experience/learning, are all items covered by the survey. Many of the
partners participating in the survey and/or attending the meetings where the prior experiential learning was explained
showed interest in reporting their own experience whose results are changing from country to country.
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Recognition of Prior Learning Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning Lifelong Learning Euorpean Higher Education Area
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Citation
ROSA, Marco Dalla; COSTA, Rui; SILVA, Cristina L. M. - Prior experimental learning (APEL): A way to short-cut the University studies in technical degrees? AgroLife Scientific Journal. ISSN 2285-5718. Vol. 1 (2012), p. 25-28
Publisher
English Universitatea De Stiinte Agronomice Si Medicina Veterinara Bucuresti