马里兰大学全球校区获125万美元资助：为军人与在职成年人认定服役与工作所学
马里兰大学全球校区（UMGC）11月3日在马里兰州 Adelphi 宣布，学校获得盖茨基金会125万美元资助，用于开发和测试一种「技能优先」方法，更高效地认定人们通过服役、工作经历和传统课堂之外的其他经历所获得的学习。
这项为期两年的项目名为「全国技能优先学习认定架构」，初期聚焦与军方有关联的学员和在职成年人。这类学员往往拥有丰富的经验，却常常要经过漫长的流程，才能把已有学习转化为大学学分。项目支持 UMGC 认定学习「无论在何处、以何种方式发生」的承诺。
UMGC 校长 Gregory W. Fowler 表示：「成年学员和军人学员通过工作、服役和生活积累了广泛的知识与技能，我们很自豪能认定这些学习。这个项目将帮助学员在已有经验的基础上继续前进，为他们的教育和职业目标提供更清晰的路径，同时保持确保 UMGC 学分质量的学术严谨与教师监督。」
资助将支持 UMGC 探索用技术工具解读军人与工作记录、识别技能与能力，并将其与学习成果对照。学分的正式认定仍由教师决定，系统提出的建议会展示其形成过程。项目目标是帮助学员更早了解其已有知识和经验可能如何计入学业，从而有望减少不必要的课程、费用和完成学业所需时间。
该项目建立在 UMGC 已有的学习成果评估与军人学分认定经验之上。通过其「军衔学分」计划，自2024年年中以来，已有超过22,000名学员获得超过109,000个学分，估算节省学费2,740万美元。UMGC 是本轮盖茨基金会「全国规模企业创新基金」五所参与大学之一，各校将共同探索如何让学员的技能与学习在机构和系统之间流动。UMGC 成立于75多年前，专门服务在职成年人和军人的高等教育需求，是马里兰州规模最大的高等教育提供者，在全球设有175多个教学与服务地点。（来源：马里兰大学全球校区）
UMGC Awarded $1.25 Million Grant: Skills-First Project to Recognize Military and Workforce Learning
University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC) announced on November 3 in Adelphi, Maryland, that it has been awarded a $1.25 million grant from the Gates Foundation to develop and test a skills-first approach to more efficiently recognize learning gained through military service, the workforce and other experiences outside the traditional classroom.
The two-year project, the National Skills-First Architecture for Learning Recognition, will initially focus on military-affiliated learners and working adults, who often have substantial experience but can face lengthy processes to translate that learning into academic credit. "Adult and military learners acquire extensive knowledge and skills through work, military service and life, and we are proud to honor that learning," said UMGC President Gregory W. Fowler. "This project will help learners build on their experience, offering a clearer path to their educational and career goals while maintaining the academic rigor and faculty oversight that ensure the quality of UMGC credit."
The grant will support UMGC's efforts to explore how technology tools can interpret military and workforce records, identify skills and competencies and map them to academic outcomes. Faculty will continue to determine official credit awards, and assisted recommendations will show how they were reached. The goal is to help learners understand earlier how their existing knowledge and experience may count toward their education, potentially reducing unnecessary coursework, costs and time to completion.
The project builds on UMGC's experience in prior learning assessment and military credit recognition. Through its Credit for Military Rank initiative, more than 22,000 learners have received more than 109,000 credits since mid-2024, saving an estimated $27.4 million in tuition. UMGC is one of five universities participating in this round of the Gates Foundation's National Scale Enterprise Innovation Fund. Founded more than 75 years ago to serve working adults and military service members, UMGC is the largest provider of postsecondary education in Maryland, with more than 175 classroom and service locations worldwide. (Source: University of Maryland Global Campus)
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