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I know I've seen threads on this before, but I did a search and SO MANY results show up for mooc, and PLA is too short of a word to search for
so which moocs have you got credit for and for which schools
and did the moocs fulfill required courses or free electives ?
am considering these mooc specialization
https://www.coursera.org/specializations...athematics
https://www.coursera.org/specializations...Mode=login
and then trying to do a PLA for them
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I usually do the MOOCs to get up to speed on a topic or use to prepare for CLEPs or DSSTs. If you're really good and really know the material you might be able to do a PLA. Never done it myself, though.
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PLA here does not get a lot of love. The Big 3 make PLA painful. I have found better luck at community colleges doing PLA.
Non-Traditional Undergraduate College Credits (634 SH): *FTCC Noncourse Credits (156 SH) *DSST (78 SH) *CPL (64 SH) *JST Military/ACE (48 SH) *CBA (44 SH) *CLEP (42 SH) *FEMA IS (40 SH) *FEMA EM (38 SH) *ECE/UExcel (30 SH) *PLA Portfolio (28 SH) *EMI/ACE (19 SH) *TEEX/ACE (16 SH) *CWE (11 SH) *NFA/ACE (10 SH) *Kaplan/ACE (3 SH) *CPC (2 SH) *AICP/ACE (2 SH) *Sophia/ACE (2 SH) and *FRTI-UM/ACE (1 SH).
Non-Traditional Graduate College Credits (14 SH): AMU (6 SH); NFHS (5 SH); and JSU (3 SH).
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I haven't done it, but if I were to try, I would get the course I wanted to PLA picked out, and the requirements of the PLA down before taking the MOOC. Then I would fill in my PLA portfolio as I went through the MOOC, making notes about the learning objectives fulfilled by each assignment or project and writing a short narrative about each one to be edited into the final portfolio.
NanoDegree: Intro to Self-Driving Cars (2019)
Coursera: Stanford Machine Learning (2019)
TESU: BA in Comp Sci (2016)
TECEP:Env Ethics (2015); TESU PLA:Software Eng, Computer Arch, C++, Advanced C++, Data Struct (2015); TESU Courses:Capstone, Database Mngmnt Sys, Op Sys, Artificial Intel, Discrete Math, Intro to Portfolio Dev, Intro PLA (2014-16); DSST:Anthro, Pers Fin, Astronomy (2014); CLEP:Intro to Soc (2014); Saylor.org:Intro to Computers (2014); CC: 69 units (1980-88)
PLA Tips Thread - TESU: What is in a Portfolio?
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