Pragmatic partnerships between employers, non-profits and educators can make demand-driven work-based learning a lot faster and more effective.
Shane Sutherland is a Director of PebblePad, an engaging personal learning tool used in a wide variety of institutions and workplaces. PebblePad is the tool of choice for the initiative that he describes.

New Flyer applied principles of Recognizing Prior Learning (RPL) to develop and implement a passport that identifies the competencies for a production worker and assesses and recognizes the required core and technical skills.
New Flyer applied principles of Recognizing Prior Learning (RPL) to develop and implement a passport that identifies the competencies for a production worker and assesses and recognizes the required core and technical skills.
The New Flyer Joint Training Committee was looking to develop a transparent, competency-based process to assess whether laid off workers had the skills necessary to be recalled by seniority and assume positions where they could perform competently and safely. This process needed to be consistent with practices for internal progression and job rotation.
The project applied the principles and tools of RPL to:
The project provided several benefits including:
The Skills Passport project: