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Date: Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Time: 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM (Central Time)
Location: Red River College – 2055 Notre Dame Avenue – eTV Studio B (Building G; Room GM33)
AGENDA
9:30 – 10:00 a.m. Registration and Informal Networking
10:00 – 10:30 a.m. *Opening and Welcome – MPLAN and Red River College
10:30 – 11:15 a.m. *Presentation #1:
Qualifications Recognition in Manitoba: The Impact of The Fair Registration Practices in Regulated Professions Act
Presenter: Ximena Munoz, Manitoba Fairness Commissioner – Office of the Manitoba Fairness Commissioner
11:15 – 11:30 a.m. Questions
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch and MPLAN AGM
1:00 – 1:30 p.m. *Presentation of the MPLAN PEARL (Pursuit of Excellence in the Assessment and Recognition of Learning) Awards
1:45 – 3:00 p.m. *Presentation #2:
An Update on RPL Practices in Post-Secondary Institutions and other Organizations (panel)
3:00 – 3:30 p.m. Networking and Refreshment Break
3:30 – 4:15 p.m. *Presentation #3:
Manitoba Resources for Recognizing Learning – A Snapshot
4:15 – 4:30 p.m. *Closing
* These presentations will be live streamed.
Workplace Education Manitoba and WPLAR are pleased to announce a free eportfolio building course that will be offered twice in the next two months.
Logistical Details
The course will be offered once in May and once in June. It is run 9am-4pm over three days:
May
· DAY 1 (Sessions 1 & 2): Tuesday, May 8
· DAY 2 (Sessions 3 & 4): Thursday, May 10
· DAY 3 (Sessions 5 & 6): Tuesday, May 15
June
· DAY 1 (Sessions 1 & 2): Tuesday, June 5
· DAY 2 (Sessions 3 & 4): Tuesday, June 12
· DAY 3 (Sessions 5 & 6): Thursday, June 14
The course takes place in a computer lab. It will help you through the process of taking your resume to the next level in the age of the Internet. You will be creating your own eportfolio (also known as a Web CV), based on your resume, further details and any authentic evidence that you can bring. The process includes filming you for a brief video introduction.
Background to Portfolios
An ePortfolio highlights all the Essentials Skills and technical knowledge and abilities that you have to offer to employers.
The Essential Skills framework provides the ideal language for highlighting the transferable skills which employers look for while a portfolio is the ideal tool for documenting and communicating evidence of those skills.
The Portfolio process recognizes and organizes all of the Essentials Skills that you have. The portfolio also shows what you are able to do through recognition of prior learning.
Other Benefits:
- Building a portfolio can be a journey of self-discovery.
- A good portfolio is a great tool to introduce what you have to offer to employers.
- An ePortfolio can help you find a job.
This personal website will belong to you and can be made as private or public as you wish.
For more information check out our main page careerportfolio.mb.ca and these detail pages:
- Information about the “Accelerated Essential Skills ePortfolio course
- (This will help you decide if this is for you, and how to prepare for the course.)
- Take a look at what you can do in this sample!
- It shows the portfolio of Rommuel, our sample person.
Tell your friends and co-workers about this opportunity.
For more information, download the course description
If you are interested in attending, contact Phyllis Mann, Program Coordinator, Workplace Education Manitoba pmann@wem.mb.ca
Red River College’s RPL Services and MPLAN are pleased to present
RPL Symposium 2012 – Celebrating and Recognizing Learning
Date: Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Time: 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Location: Red River College ‐ Notre Dame Campus
2055 Notre Dame Avenue
eTV Studio B (Building G; Room GM33)
Join us in person for the day or access presentations online via livestream for:
- an update on Qualification Recognition practices in Manitoba
- an update on RPL practices in post‐secondary institutions and other organizations
- a snapshot of some of the RPL resources in Manitoba
The MPLAN AGM and PEARL (Pursuit of Excellence in the Assessment and Recognition of Learning) Award Presentations will also take place.
Registration information coming soon!
Watch Sandi Howell (Government of Manitoba) and Megan Schwabiuk (Workplace Education Manitoba) provide updates on workplace Essential Skills and RPL in the province.
(Recorded March 15, 2012)
It is almost Spring and we are already thinking about our annual RPL Practitioner Summer Institutes here at Red River College! This June, we are celebrating 10 years of delivering our RPL Foundation Summer Institutes – the first course in the RPL Practitioner Certificate! To date, over 660 individuals have completed this RPL Foundation course through the summer institutes, online, classroom or custom delivery for organizations/ institutions across Canada and internationally.
RPL Foundation Summer Institute – June 11-15, 2012
RPL Special Issues Summer Institute- June 18-22, 2012
(5 day institute with an online module to be completed prior to the institute)
Both institutes are credit courses in the RPL Practitioner Certificate. Registration is already underway. Early registration is recommended as space in both institutes is limited. To register, please contact the School of Continuing and Distance Education at 1 866 242 7073 or visit www.rrc.ca/rplcertificate.
Please note that the Manitoba Prior Learning Assessment Network (MPLAN) offers a yearly scholarship of $400. towards a course tuition for a MPLAN member who is completing courses in the RPL Practitioner Certificate. For more information, visit the MPLAN website at www.mbplar.ca.
Morning with Sandi Howell
Program Manager-Sector Councils, Essential Skills and RPL, Government of Manitoba
Winnipeg Technical College, Delta Room Z
130 Henlow Bay, Winnipeg
Thursday, March 15, 2012
8:30 – 10:30 am
Event Fee: Members: $15.00
Non-Members: $20.00
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You are invited to participate in MPLAN’s March learning event with guest speaker, Sandi Howell. Sandi will provide an update on the initiatives and projects currently underway in such areas as Essential Skills, RPL and WPLAR. Bring a colleague and join MPLAN members and other participants for a continental breakfast, networking and the featured presentation!
Agenda
8:00-8:45 am Registration, Continental Breakfast and Networking
8:45-9:00 Welcome and opening remarks
9:00-10:15 Presentation by Sandi Howell
10:15-10:30 Questions and Closing remarks
Friday, December 9, 2011
11:30 am – 1:30 pm
Sydney’s at the Forks
215-1 Forks Market Road, Winnipeg
Event Fee: Members: $30.00 (includes lunch)
Non-Members: $35.00
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Join us for this festive event as MPLAN members share highlights from the recent CAPLA conference – Cashing in on the Riches of Prior Learning workshops including…
- Canada’s PLAR Networks-Coast to Coast and International Highlights
- Building Community Capacity in RP
- International Qualifications Network (IQN) Website
- Fostering Transferability and Implementing Quality RPL in Canada’s Colleges and Institutes
- Using RPL Practitioner Competency Profiles
- Career Portfolio Manitoba: Employability e-Portfolio Using Essential Skills
- Beyond Academic Credentials- A 360 Degree Look at the Recognition of Prior Learning
- SMEs & Informal Workplace Learning in Canada
Red River College of Applied Arts, Science and Technology is pleased to once again offer a number of courses in the RPL Practitioner Certificate program. The attached brochure provides course information for 2011-2012. Registration details and additional course information can be accessed at www.rrc.ca/rplcertificate.
Registration is open for the Fall term and there are still openings in the following courses:
RPL Foundation – 2 delivery options are offered this Fall. The online distance delivery course runs from October 17/11 to February 12/2012. The classroom delivery (i.e. series of full day workshops) runs November 2, 2011- April 6, 2012.
Train the Trainer: Portfolio – online distance delivery course runs from September 26, 2011- December 5, 2011.
RPL Practitioner (advanced) Course – online distance delivery starts October 31, 2011- March 5, 2012. The RPL Foundation course (or proven equivalent prior learning) is the prerequisite for this advanced course.
Both the RPL Foundation and the Train the Trainer: Portfolio courses will be offered again in either the Winter or Spring terms. For those practitioners who have completed all of the theory courses, the final RPL Practitioner Certificate course(s) - RPL Practicum or the RPL Capstone Project are now available. Please contact me for further information.
We’re already planning for next summer and will once again offer two summer institutes. The 10th annual RPL Foundation Summer Institute will run from June 11-15, 2012 and the RPL Special Issues Summer Institute is scheduled for June 18-22, 2012.
Deb Blower
RPL Facilitator
Red River College of Applied Arts, Science and Technology
204 632 2065
dblower@rrc.mb.ca
This June, Red River College is very pleased to offer 2 RPL Practitioner Summer Institutes. Registration is already underway. Both are credit courses in the RRC RPL Practitioner Certificate. For detailed information on the RRC RPL Practitioner Certificate, please go to www.rrc.ca/rplcertificate .
Please download the attached information for details on these special June learning events…..
- RPL Foundation Summer Institute – June 13-17, 2011
- RPL Special Issues Summer Institute – June 20-24, 2011 (online module to be completed prior to the institute, opens on May 24th)
Both institutes will be held at Red River College’s Notre Dame Campus in Winnipeg, Manitoba from 8:30 am -4:30 pm each day.
To register, please contact RRC’S School of Continuing and Distance Education at 1 866 242 7073 or visit www.rrc.ca/rplcertificate. Early registration is recommended as space in both institutes is limited.
MPLAN offers a yearly scholarship of $400 towards a course tuition for an MPLAN member who is completing courses in the RPL Practitioner Certificate. For more information visit the MPLAN website at www.mbplar.ca .
PEARL Award
MPLAN is pleased to invite nominations for the 9th Annual Pursuit of Excellence in the Assessment and Recognition of Learning (PEARL) Awards. This is a opportunity to identify and recognize projects, programs and organizations demonstrating significant achievements in the field of prior learning and qualification recognition.
MPLAN Scholarship
MPLAN is also seeking applications for the MPLAN Scholarship which provides financial support to a student embarking on or enrolled in Red River College’s RPL Practitioner Certificate Program.
PEARL Award recipients and Scholarship winner will be recognized at MPLAN’s Annual General Meeting in May 2011.
