Beyond Manitoba
Pragmatic partnerships between employers, non-profits and educators can make demand-driven work-based learning a lot faster and more effective.
Shane Sutherland is a Director of PebblePad, an engaging personal learning tool used in a wide variety of institutions and workplaces. PebblePad is the tool of choice for the initiative that he describes.
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Recognizing Prior Learning for Internal Progression
WPLAR is a business, labour and government partnering to oversee workplace PLAR activities in Manitoba. WPLAR is responsible for implementing and marketing Manitoba’s approach to industry-based PLAR. This includes researching best practice, guiding the development of PLAR workplace practitioners and supporting industry-based projects.
Evaluation of WPLAR Initiatives
In spring 2007 a follow-up was undertaken with selected companies and organizations which had worked with WPLAR.
Options for the Workplace and the Workforce
The field of Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) includes the recognition of both prior formal and informal learning with emphasis traditionally being on the former. Meyers and Morrissey in their 2007 discussion paper indicate that RPL has traditionally focused on recognition of prior formal learning in areas such as credit transfer, foreign credentials and trades certificates. However, they emphasize the need to move beyond the recognition of formal learning to include the recognition of the vast amount informal and experiential learning that adults acquire...
PLAR as a workforce development tool: Linking the Partners
Industry-based Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR), along with post secondary and community services, is part of a provincial wide PLAR strategy pursued by Manitoba Advanced Education and Training.
PLAR Processes for Human Resource Professionals at Manitoba Hydro — Five Years Later
In January 2003, Workplace Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (WPLAR) Committee approved the launch of the Manitoba Hydro Prior Learning, Assessment and Recognition (PLAR) project for Human Resource Professionals to address a succession planning need. WPLAR contracted Rosalie Olson of Dynamic Resource Management of Winnipeg, Manitoba as the project consultant. Through the WPLAR Committee, expertise and cost-shared assistance is potentially available to support the implementation of PLAR activities in the workplace. WPLAR project funding may be shared with industry, business, labour, accrediting bodies and government.
WORKPLACE PRIOR LEARNING ASSESSMENT AND RECOGNITION THE MANITOBA REPORT 2002
The purpose of this report is to inform the reader about the practice of PLARnationally and internationally as it relates to workplace-based practice inManitoba.
Minding the Gap
A Study of Gap Training Models in Canada
Completed for the Province of Manitoba Advanced Education and Training Workplace Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition Committee
NOR-MAN Research into Innovative Recruitment in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Practice
A labour shortage of health care professionals to provide quality Psychiatric/Mental Health services in the NOR-MAN Health Region has driven the need for innovative recruitment research. The primary focus has been the exploration of the potential to establish and deliver an Advanced Practice Licensed Practical Nurse credential in Psychiatry/Mental Health as part of a broad recruitment and retention strategy. To this end, research was conducted to ascertain if Licensed Practical Nurses have the foundation to develop the specialized skills required to practice in this extended area of practice, as well as to identify gaps and explore solutions and pathways of delivery to address these gaps. The practices of Prior Learning and Recognition and career laddering are considered throughout the process. Attention is also drawn to the need to develop meaningful education and employment opportunities in the North through a collaborative approach, thereby fostering the growth and optimal utilization of our invaluable human resources.
WPLAR Initiatives 2001-2007 Project Catalogue
WPLAR Initiatives 2001-2007Project Catalogue