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General Recommendation for the Award of Credit
The “Oldenburg” Model for the Accreditation of
Prior Learning
Between 2004 and 2007, the Carl
von Ossietzky University Oldenburg
participated in the “
ANKOM Initiative
”
(“Award of Credit of Vocational Com-
petencies for Degree Programmes”)
by the German Federal Ministry of
Education and Research (BMBF) as one
of twelve pilot projects (Hartmann et
al., 2006).
The pilot projects of the ANKOM were
enabled by an enactment of the Ger-
man
Kultusministerkonferenz
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in the year
2002. This enactment already suggests a
design for a system for the award of cre-
dit. It is stated that
“Knowledge and skills that were acquired
outside the higher education system can
be awarded with credit (if applicable
in the form of blanket accreditationd)
for degree programmes in higher edu-
cation if […] their content and level
are equivalent to the part of the de-
gree programme that is to be substi-
tuted […]“ (KMK, 2002).
The award of credit of competencies
acquired through vocational and pro-
fessional practice is being practised at
University of Oldenburg since 2006.
At the
Wolfgang Schulenberg-Institut für
Bildungsforschung und Erwachsenenbildung
at the Carl von Ossietzky University Ol-
denburg, a quality-assured method for
the assessment of the award of credit
of vocational learning outcomes for
degree programmes was developed in
line with the ANKOM initiative (Müs-
kens, 2006).
This method, a so-called equivalence
check, has already been used for as-
sessing numerous advanced and
vocational training certificates. The
equivalence check is mainly focused
on identifying those parts of a degree
programme and an advanced training
programme which are equivalent in
content and level.
Content
Content
Level
Study Module of
degree programme
Module of advanced
training programme
Level
Figure 2: Equivalence check
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Standing Conference of German Ministers of Education (federal States and federal ministers)
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