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Apprenticeship |
A formal relationship between the worker and sponsor
that consists of a combination of on-the-job training
and related occupation-specific instruction. See
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Artifact |
See Career Artifact |
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Asset |
Any tangible or intangible possession that possesses
some intrinsic value. See Career
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Associate’s degree |
degree awarded usually for at least 2 years of full-time
academic study beyond high school. see Education |
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Bachelor’s Degree |
A degree awarded usually for at least 4 years of
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Branding |
In the context of contemporary career development,
branding refers to a process of developing a personal
career "image" that clearly conveys the essence of an
individual and his/her career status and goals. Also
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Career Artifact |
A career artifact is a document that verifies an
experience. A few examples: high school diploma, letters
of commendation from a volunteer organization,
photographs, newspaper clippings that point to your
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Career Asset |
 A career asset is any experience—paid
or unpaid, formal or informal—that
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Career Portfolio |
A career portfolio is an organized, up-to-date
collection of references and artifacts that verify
your claims of personal experiences and achievements
that appear on your resume and curriculum vita.
It is assembled in a convenient portable format that can
be displayed at employment interviews or meetings with
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Career Shadowing |
See Externship |
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Career Simulator |
An online virtual world that allows participants to
engage in career role-play activities that present and
challenge the participant's understanding and skills.
Properly executed with organized study groups and
workgroups, experiences in career simulators can
contribute valuable (and otherwise absent) experience to
a career portfolio. Also
see Virtual World
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Classroom Lecture
Videos |
Classroom lecture videos feature an instructor in a
classroom format. Most CLVs are shot on location in and
with minimal editing. Compare this with
tutorial
videos where you get the impression the teacher or
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Contributing Scholar |
A contributing scholar is a responsible,
well-educated, and experienced scholar or scientist
whose ambition is to make a serious contribution to
human understanding and welfare, but without the
academic credentials that traditionally required.
Integrity and professional ethics distinguishes a
contributing scholar from a crank or overzealous
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| Cramming |
Cramming is a learning style characterized by
attempts to absorb course material in a short period of
time and with the sole intention of passing an exam. It
is commonly employed in institutional education, in
spite of the fact it is an ineffective learning style. |
| Creatives Portfolio |
The point of many career pursuits is to create
objects or images of a creative nature. This is
especially true for the graphic arts, studio art,
fashion design, photography, videography, and
architecture. In a manner of speaking, the curatives
portfolio is your professional "samples case."
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A degree awarded usually for at least 3 years of
full-time academic work beyond a bachelor’s degree;
e.g., lawyers, physicians and surgeons, and dentists |
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Documentary videos are
professionally produced educational videos that are most often intended for
television and DVD distribution. Documentary videos present important facts and
stir the imagination, ,usually doing more to excite a
sense of wonder, creativity, and commitment to learning
than offer up a lot of objective facts
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Docututorial Video |
A docututorial video is an educational video that
combines some of the color and excitement of a
documentary video
with significant amounts of detail that
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career asset characterized by learning new facts,
processes, ideas, and perspectives on one or more
topics. Education may be formal, such as a fixed
curriculum offered by an accredited school or college.
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Any activity—formal or
informal, paid or non-paid, academic or hands-on—that
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Externship |
A potentially high-value career asset characterized
by spending a short time (typically between three days
and two weeks) observing and participating in the
activities of a workplace that employs individuals in
your chosen career field. The goal is a deeper
appreciation of the day-to-day quality of work in the
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Formal Education |
Formal education is an education experience
characterized by a syllabus, a fixed curriculum, an
on-site teacher or mentor, access to learning materials,
most likely a fee or tuition, quizzes and exams, and a
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(General
Educational Development) A credential
signifying the completion of a program that is
equivalent to a high school curriculum. |
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Development |
See GED |
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A learning environment characterized by doing most
or all the required study "in the comfort of home."
Through its existence in the 20th century, it was
assumed the learners were of primary and secondary
school age, doing the work in order to satisfy
state education standards outside conventional schools.
The basic definition applies today, but the demographic
of the learners includes adults who find that
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Literally, informal education refers to learning
experiences outside the "walls" of recognized formal
education. Until recently, employers and prospective
employers tended to ignore any mention of informal
education. Today, however, informal education (career
homeschooling, for example)
has become a recognized career
asset. This assumes, of course, there is some
credible means for evaluating the outcomes. More... |
| Internships |
Potentially high-value career assets that are
characterized by work experience as an apprentice. The
duration of internships is between several months to a
year. Interns ant not usually paid; however, some intern
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Iterative Learning |
Iterative learning is a learning style characterized
by repeating the same general sequence of topics, but
each time in greater depth and often from different
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One of the components of career characterized by
providing financial income in exchange for time and
talent. Usually a necessity and sometimes an option; but
always just a component of a broader
career portfolio. |
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Knowledge Aggregator |
One who researches a given topic, evaluates and
organizes the information, and finally creates a
thorough account and interpretation of the findings. |
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Learning Resources |
Learning resources are Items that can provide useful
information for learning. They might be as simple as an
image or hyperlink, or as complex as an entire
e-textbook or 2-semester series of lecture videos. |
| Lecture Video |
See Classroom
Lecture Video |
| Learning Journal |
"The Learning Journal is where the learner and
the subject matter meet in a very intimate and
meaningful fashion." [DH]
A learning journal is a detailed account of learning
experiences with a particular course or study program.
Effective learning journals are often highly personal
and include study notes and observations that anyone
else would find confusing ... at best. The cleaned-up
version of a learning journal becomes a study summary
for your learning portfolio.
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Learning Wrapper |
A study program or college major that shares
essential career assets with many other, often seemingly
unrelated, fields of study. Learning, refining, and
experiencing the essential skills for Art History, for
example, directly apply to something else such as
Marketing. In that example, classes in Art History are
simply a wrapper for the more general experiences gained
by the study. |
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Lifelong Learning |
Lifelong learning literally means
"learning for a lifetime." The term originated in
the latter half of the 20th century, and generally
referred to middle-age and older adults who wanted some
"personal enrichment" in their lives. In today's
fast-paced and unpredictable working culture, lifelong
learning applies to anyone who hopes to build and
sustain a career that promises security and life
enrichment to the very end. |
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| Master’s
Degree |
A degree awarded usually for 1 or 2
years of full-time academic study beyond a bachelor’s
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On-the-Job Training |
Training or preparation that is typically needed,
once employed in an occupation, to attain competency in
the occupation. Training is occupation specific rather
than job specific; skills learned can be transferred to
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| Peer Workgroups |
Groups of three or more people organized for the
purpose of completing a learning or research project.
Evidence of working in groups that study and solve
problems can be a career asset of the highest value. |
| PowerPoint™
Presentations |
PowerPoint are slides created by educators and
textbook publishers. They often represent lecture
notes associated with a particular textbook. Sometimes
they are stand-alone tutorials. NOTE: PowerPoint (PPT)
files are frequently large enough to require relatively
long download times. |
| Preview Textbooks |
Preview textbooks are textbooks that publishers make
available online and free of charge. The purpose is to
provide a sample of the book for review by
potential school adopters.
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| Resources |
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| Shadowing |
See Job Shadowing |
| Skills |
Skills are procedures, techniques, processes that
are learned and refunded throughout one's career.
In today's learning and working environments, skills are
tools that are used for constructing shaping broader
career assets. Skills are
not (as they were through the 20th century) the primary
goal of education and the lone asset in a
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Task Force |
A task force is workgroup that is formed to complete
a well-defined task and is dissolved when the task is
completed. In the context of career building, final
reports about the project and letters of confirmation
from task-force principals can be valuable assents in a
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| Textbook Companion
Website |
Textbook publishers create websites to support the
content of their more popular products. Originally
intended solely for students who have purchased the
textbook, the publishers have found there is marketing
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| Topical Tutorial |
A topical tutorial is relatively short reading
resource that deals with a single, narrow topic. Topical
tutorials are usually complete, stable chapters from a
leading textbook. NOTE: Topical tutorials are
often PDF files. Some of these files can be rather
large, thus requiring relatively long download times. |
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Tutorial Video |
A tutorial video is a type of teaching video that
uses a one-on-one format—one
narrator addressing the camera. By contrast, a
classroom lecture
video shows a teacher addressing any
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| Verifiable Career Asset |
The value of a career asset rests
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See Virtual World |
| Virtual World |
A virtual world is an online 3D digital world that
is capable of supporting large numbers of independent
avatars and offers opportunities for social interaction,
exploration, inventiveness, and financial opportunity.
The preferred virtual world for Free-Ed.Net is
Second Life®. |
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Virtual World Experience |
3D virtual worlds, such as
Second Life®,
offer unprecedented opportunities for social interaction
and professional engagement. Although the environment is
"virtual," the experiences are very real ... and can be
developed into very significant
career assets. Also see
Career Simulator. |
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| Web
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Web 2.0 describe web sites that use technology
beyond the static pages of earlier web sites. Although
web 2.0 suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it
does not refer to an update to any technical
specification, but rather to cumulative changes in the
ways software developers and end-users use the Web.
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| Workgroup |
Two or more individuals who work together to achieve
a common goal. The achievements of a properly
organized workgroup can serve as verifiable career
experience. |
| Wrapper |
See Learning Wrapper |
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