Chapter 4: Supporting Documentation

The Supporting Documentation section of the PLA portfolio showcases documentation of your learning achievements through experience. This chapter will delve into the many acceptable types of documentation, leading students through brainstorming activities for discovering and acquiring documents, best practices for presenting the documents, and ways to give context for the reviewers relating to course learning objectives.

Learning Objectives

• Evaluate supporting documentation in terms of relevance and impact as part of a Prior Learning Portfolio
• Reflect on supporting documentation as a component of the learning portfolio in context with other components
• Frame documentation in relation to course learning outcomes
• Collect supporting documentation for the prior learning portfolio.