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

Last updated 2026-02-25 - new badge image

About this event

Don Presant of Learning Agents presented on February 25th, 2026:

"Opening Up Recognition in Africa - Badge Canvas goes on safari", a recap of the Green Skills Symposium hosted by UK's Royal Academy of Engineering in Nairobi, Kenya in February 2026.

The presentation was followed by an virtual Badge Canvas exercise, similar to the face-to-face exercise that Don facilitated in Nairobi.

CoL session content

• Presentation deck 1: INTRO - Opening Up Recognition
• Presentation deck 2: Badge Canvas Toolkit Orientation
  
  

Other content shared

• Badge Canvas (editable PowerPoint file)
  Learning Agents’ adaptation and extension of a longtime useful brainstorming tool in the Open Badges community as a Powerpoint workbook.Use this tool to plan your overall credentialing system and sketch in badge content. It includes a copy of the Learning Agents Flexible Recognition Framework that you can adapt for your context.The Badge Canvas can be used solo, or as a group collaboration exercise.
  Licenced under Creative Commons with Attribution (CC BY).

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

This badge was issued in partnership with CanCred.ca.