Community of Learning - PARTICIPANT

The Canadian Association for Prior Learning Assessment (CAPLA) supports and advocates for the awareness, acceptance, and better practice of Recognition of Prior Learning processes, knowledge, skills, and attributes for all people.

Type of recognition

Learning participation and brief reflection (Organized Learning, lightly evaluated)

This badge is only issued to participants who reflect on what they learned and how they might apply it in their professional practice.

Aligned to Learning Agents Flexible Spectrum of Recognition:

About the Community of Learning (CoL)

The CoL is a participant-driven space, open to anybody interested in RPL/PLAR: CAPLA will facilitate the sessions, but the community will shape them. This is a safe space where we can discuss, share, and support each other in the RPL/PLAR work that we do.

If you are relatively new to the RPL/PLAR field, come and benefit from collaboration with seasoned RPL/PLAR practitioners: it's a great opportunity to network and find the support you need. If you are a more established RPL/PLAR Practitioner, it's a great place to discuss your work with like-minded colleagues, share and find potential answers to issues and challenges in your service delivery.

Learning Objectives

1. Learn informally in active discussion with experts and peer RPL professionals
2. Explore topics related on the practice of RPL process
3. Reflect on the potential benefits of applying this learning to improve personal and/or organizational practice

Assessment

The badge recipient completed a badge application form, reflecting on what they learned and how they might apply it in their professional practice.

This is a Reflective Learner participation badge with no formal assessment of learning, just light validation of the badge recipient's professional reflections.

Estimated learning effort

1.5 hours

About this CoL event

Johanne Laroche and Emily Bouliane, Expert counselors in RAC (RPL) from CERAC Marie-Victorin, presented on December 3, 2025:

"Enhancing RPL processes by leveraging key elements of the Quebec College RAC model"

Event content

• Presentation deck
  
  

Other content shared

• Reconnaissance des acquis et des compétences en formation collégiale technique
  Published by the Government of Québec. This foundational document is the basis for RAC (RPL) services at the college-level in Quebec. It has been informally translated below.
• Recognition Of Prior Learning And Competencies In Technical College Training - Unofficial Translation
  Provided as an informal reference only.
• "On gagne à être reconnues - témoignages etudiants"
  “RPL changes people’s lives for the better!” - students’ RPL experiences at the university level in Quebec, produced by Service de soutien interuniversitaire en RAC (SSIRAC)

About CAPLA

The Canadian Association for Prior Learning Assessment (CAPLA) supports and advocates for the awareness, acceptance, and better practice of Recognition of Prior Learning processes, knowledge, skills, and attributes for all people.

What is Recognition of Prior Learning?

Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) is a set of processes that allows individuals to identify, document, be assessed, and gain recognition for their prior learning. The focus is on the learning, rather than on where or how the learning occurred. Knowledge, skills, and abilities gained from life experiences may be formal, informal, or non-formal. RPL processes may serve several purposes, including: credit or advanced standing at an academic institution, licensure and professional certification, employment, career planning, community recognition or self-knowledge.
Adapted from the CAPLA RPL Quality Assurance Manual

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