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Course Outlines in the BC Transfer System: Designing Content and Format to Facilitate Course Transferability
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Fiona A. E. McQuarrie – British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2024
The purpose of this report is to examine and compare course outlines at BC Transfer System member institutions, and to provide recommendations for course outline content and format to facilitate request for transfer credit. This project examined course outlines and/or syllabi from 36 BC Transfer System member institutions, along with each…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Transfer Policy, Educational Policy, Institutional Cooperation
Reverse Transfer: The Feasibility of Reverse Transfer in the BC Transfer System
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McQuarrie, Fiona A. E. – British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2022
Reverse transfer has been part of the United States post-secondary landscape for more than a decade, in the form of statewide, system-wide, regional, and institutional transfer agreements. Reverse transfer agreements, as structured in the US, allow a college student in an associate degree program who transfers to a university before completing the…
Descriptors: Reverse Transfer Students, College Credits, Educational Attainment, Associate Degrees
Enhancing Accessibility and Inclusion: The 2024 Landscape of Credit for Prior Learning in U.S. and Canadian Higher Education
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Wendy Kilgore – American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), 2024
Undergraduate credit for prior learning (CPL) is an important aspect of today's higher-education landscape. This report presents an in-depth look at the current state of undergraduate CPL in the United States and Canada. The primary objective of the report is to foment dialogue and action toward a more inclusive, effective higher-education system…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Inclusion, College Credits
Exploring Stranded Credit in the BC Transfer System
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McQuarrie, Fiona A. E. – British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2023
Stranded credit is credit that students have earned at a postsecondary institution, but cannot use or transfer because they have unpaid debts at the institution. Institutions will usually not issue official transcripts to students with debt, which results in the student being unable to formally document the credits they have acquired. This can…
Descriptors: College Credits, Transfer Policy, College Transfer Students, Foreign Countries
Identifying and Removing Barriers Influencing New Students' Decision to Enroll in an Online Course
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Brockerhoff-Macdonald, Bettina; Sckopke, Christina – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2021
Why are newly admitted students to online programs not registering in courses in the session for which they applied for admission? Two surveys were completed (January 2019 and May 2019) by students who had accepted an offer of admission into an online program at Laurentian University, but had subsequently not registered for courses for the…
Descriptors: Barriers, College Admission, College Applicants, College Students
Exploring Students' Motivations for Credit Accumulation
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British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2021
Building on earlier quantitative BCCAT [British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer] research assessing number of credits required for graduation (2010, 2020), this study sought to use a qualitative analysis to explore the reasons why students collect more credits than required for their credential(s) and their general feelings towards…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Motivation, College Credits