European Short Learning Programmes
SLP4U Portal
According to the European Short Learning consortium, a short learning programme (SLP) can be described as a group of courses (units, modules, or other learning building blocks) with a common subject, designed in response to a specific need, that targets higher education lifelong learners and delivers credit-based (ECTS) certification/credentials.
SLPs are shorter programmes stackable to larger ones such as a degree. These short programmes enable learners to have a feeling of progressing as they need less time to achieve a milestone. At the end of an SLP, after assessment, is awarded to the learner a credential that contains information related to the title of the qualification, the number of ECTS, the learning outcomes/competences, the level of the course achieved, assessment info and the grades earned.
On the SLP portal called SLP4U you can sign up for all kinds of SLPs.
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SLP Characteristics
Recognition and accreditation
Recognising SLP qualifications as part of wider degree programmes. Such that these qualifications are compliant with the (renewed) EQF as well as with quality assurance and accreditation procedures
Relation to formal degrees
SLPs must be regarded as building blocks to formal degrees
Target groups
Online and blended
The E-SLP project will mainly focus on flexible online/blended SLPs
Flexibility and scalability
Implementation of flexible and scalable SLPs as main part of continuing education/continuous professional development and lifelong learning policies. Flexibility by for example responses to market, flexible building blocks to degrees, openness, non-stop enrolment, flexible learning paths, asynchronous, etc. and scalability by progressive accreditation, massive audience, easy context adaptation, etc.
Society and Market driven
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SLPs respond to the demand of large numbers of students for a shorter study; to the immediate economic knowledge and skills requirements in enterprises, to cultural, social and environmental needs and personal development in society.