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New Initiative Targets Transfer Credit Loss
19+ hour, 6+ min ago (736+ words) Higher education accreditor SACSCOC’s new consortium aims to create common transfer pathways and shorten time to degree. SACSCOC’s new Transfer Credit Consortium brings colleges and universities together to develop common transfer pathways for general education courses. The SACSCOC Transfer Credit…...
Why Credit Evaluation Work Deserves a Bigger Table
4+ day, 19+ hour ago (396+ words) The work of learning evaluation matters now more than ever. By Heather Adams and Juana Sánchez Learning-evaluation decisions are enormously consequential to learners, shaping how many classes they still need to reach graduation. Without timely evaluation, incoming learners can lose…...
Tension Between Access, Quality in Credit Transfer (column)
1+ week, 5+ day ago (593+ words) Improving credit transfer and learning mobility will make it easier for people to game the system. But that risk is outweighed by the far larger number of students it will help. In what was little more than an aside in…...