Paul Fain Shares Latest News On MOOCS At Cael International Conference Nov 6-8
Inside Higher Ed Senior Reporter Addresses Council for Adult and Experiental Learning's Closing Session.
- (1888PressRelease) October 30, 2013 - Chicago - Paul Fain, Senior Reporter with Inside Higher Ed, will speak on "MOOCs and Competency Assessment: What's the Latest News?" beginning at 11:30 a.m. Nov. 8 during the closing session of the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) 2013 International Conference, Pamela Tate, CAEL CEO and president announced today.
"Destination Education-Charting a Course to Degree Completion," is a must-attend event for any innovators in higher education. It will be held Wednesday-Friday, Nov. 6-8, at the Hyatt Regency Mission Bay Spa and Marina in San Diego, CA.
Fain has covered community college, for-profit institutions and the adult student market at Inside Higher Ed, an online source for news, opinion and jobs for all of higher education, since 2011. Previously he was a senior reporter for The Chronicle of Higher Education, where he wrote about college leaders, finance and governance. A former staff writer for C-VILLE Weekly, a Charlottesville, Va. newspaper, he has written for The New York Times, Washington City Paper and Mother Jones.
His numerous awards include the 2008 Dick Schaap Excellence in Sports Journalism Award and a 2006 second-place prize for beat reporting from the Education Writers Association. A native of Dayton, Ohio, Paul got hooked on journalism while working countless hours at The Review, the student newspaper at the University of Delaware, where he earned a degree in political science in 1996.
The Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) is a nonprofit 501(c) (3) organization based in Chicago, Illinois that assists adults with their educational endeavors, finding practical ways to earn college credit for learning acquired through training and work experiences. CAEL works with the public sector, private sector industries and higher education institutions to ensure that adult students receive the most efficient training and education to occupy a meaningful professional place in a 21st century economy. Since 1974, CAEL has assisted colleges and universities in providing college credit for prior learning. CAEL is the recognized national expert on a method known as portfolio assessment, and their Ten Standards for Assessing Learning are used by colleges and universities, as well as accrediting organizations, across the country.
LearningCounts.org is managed by the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL), and operates with support from Lumina Foundation, the Kresge Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, the State Street Foundation, the Houston Endowment, USA Funds, and Brown Foundation. The Walmart Foundation is also providing support and funding scholarships for eligible users of LearningCounts.org.
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