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dc.contributor.authorPitman, Tim
dc.contributor.authorVidovich, L.
dc.contributor.editorReushle, Shirley
dc.contributor.editorAntonio, Amy
dc.contributor.editorKeppell. Mike
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-12T05:58:34Z
dc.date.available2020-11-12T05:58:34Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/81658
dc.identifier.doi10.4018/978-1-4666-8856-8.ch002
dc.description.abstract

© 2016, IGI Global. All rights reserved. This chapter explores the difficulties surrounding the credentialing of open learning through an analysis of policies and practices relating to recognition of prior learning (RPL) in the Australian higher education sector. Here, credentialing encompasses both RPL for credit, where we ask to what extent there is a hierarchy of value placed on prior learning; and RPL for access where the notion of 'meritocracy' is foregrounded. The main argument is that, in the context of the Australian higher education sector, and possibly well beyond, RPL is more likely to be operationalised for strategic reasons relating to competitive university positioning within the sector, than for pedagogic motivations. As a result, equity considerations-especially for the most disadvantaged students-are further marginalised. It is one thing to develop processes through which open learning facilitates the production of knowledge, but another for this knowledge to be recognised by the Academy.

dc.titleAustralian universities' RPL policies and practices: What knowledge counts?
dc.typeBook Chapter
dcterms.source.startPage18
dcterms.source.endPage33
dcterms.source.titleOpen Learning and Formal Credentialing in Higher Education: Curriculum Models and Institutional Policies
dcterms.source.isbn1466688564
dcterms.source.isbn9781466688568
dcterms.source.chapter14
dc.date.updated2020-11-12T05:58:34Z
curtin.departmentHumanities Research and Graduate Studies
curtin.accessStatusFulltext not available
curtin.facultyFaculty of Humanities
curtin.contributor.orcidPitman, Tim [0000-0002-4237-2203]
curtin.contributor.researcheridPitman, Tim [B-1856-2010]
curtin.contributor.scopusauthoridPitman, Tim [30567716100]


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