Canadian Adult Education Credential

The Canadian Adult Education Credential (CAEC) has been released. Testing centres and test prep providers are ramping up to support access to this credential for adult students seeking a high school equivalency diploma. This support will help a borad range of adult students in Alberta and acrross the country gain further access to employment and academic studies.

As part of its mandate, Hilgartner Learning is working to support the delivery and acceptance of this credential with the following initiatives:

• Foundational Learning Community of Practice
  This community of practitioners will advocate for the CAEC as a valid credential for high school equivalency, vocation access, and entrance into academic study programs. This advocacy will be among and with students, testing centres, learning centres, provincial education agencies.
• CAEC Prep Courses
  These CAEC test prep courses will help students prepare for the CAEC tests. The prep courses will determine prior learning, create a differentiated learning plan, provide formative feedback, deliver remediation activities, and connect facilitator support.
• CAEC Prep Provinicial Registration Web Application
  Working with the Foundational Learning Community of Practice, Hilgartner Learning will work to set up a web application for CAEC testing and learning centres to provide enrollment services. This one-stop-regisgtration process will connect testing and learning services. It will promote CAEC as a credential and increase access.
• Foundational Learning Management System
  This learning management system works to create access to CAEC Prep support for adult students. It allows for multiple online and in-person delivery modes. It employs instructional design and user experience principles to promote access and responsive instruction. Learning Centres can port the courses over to their own managment systems. They can register students for the Hilgartner Learning hosted LMS.
• CAEC Remote Testing
  Hilgartner Learning will work with the Foundational Learning Community of Practice and provincial agencies to support remote testing. With proctoring, students would be able to write from home or other centres where testing supervision is not available.

Currently, we are working on finishhing off our CAEC Prep courses. Reach out to us if you are interested in seeing the courses or have questions. Equally, we are visting testing and learning centres as part of forming this Foundational Learning Community of Practice.