Inside Higher Ed

Leaning Into Credit for Prior Learning

We live in a world where learning opportunities exist everywhere, in both formal and nonformal settings. Large-scale online courses, corporate or other workplace learning opportunities, skill or ...
Business Wire

University of Phoenix Issues White Paper Offering a Framework of Credit for Prior Learning in Graduate Degree Programs

PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--University of Phoenix has released a new white paper, “Advancing Graduate Education Through Credit for Prior Learning: A Framework for Equity, Access, and Academic Success,” ...
Center for American Progress

Center for American Progress

Prior learning assessments measure what a student has learned outside of the college classroom, evaluate whether that learning and then determine the equivalent number of college credits. Adult ...
Inside Higher Ed

Who Gets the Credit?

The granting of college credit for knowledge gained outside the traditional academic setting – prior learning assessment – appears poised to take off in higher education. With a lift from the ...
ung.edu

Prior Learning Assessment (PLA)

Prior learning is learning gained through life or work outside of structured higher educational courses. Veteran and Adult Learner Programs works with UNG students in regards to PLA by evaluating ...
Center for American Progress

Articulation Agreements and Prior Learning Assessments

A brief lays out two tools that can help today's diverse learners complete their college degrees. Students attend a pharmacology class at Oregon Health and Science University School of Nursing. Too ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Where Life Earns Credit: ‘Prior Learning’ Gets a Fresh Assessment

At first, James A. Nienow was skeptical of the idea. Why should instructors give students academic credit for something they had done outside a classroom? Mr. Nienow, a biology professor at Valdosta ...
KSL

University of Utah students favor 'Prior Learning and Service' college credit award program

SALT LAKE CITY — Dom Tychsen is a midshipman in the University of Utah's Naval ROTC program. He also served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, laboring in New Mexico and ...
Business Wire

University of Phoenix Hosts Webinar on “The Ins and Outs of Transfer Credit,” and Credit for Prior Learning

PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--University of Phoenix is holding a free webinar on the practical aspects of earning college credit for prior learning and life and work experiences, titled “The Ins and Outs ...
EdSource

Why many colleges are giving more credit for learning outside the classroom

EdSource · How a small rural school district is setting an example for school counseling statewide When she enlisted in the Navy in 2003, Alice Keeney attended naval nuclear power school. There, she ...