Scaling up PLA requires strong policies, planning backend processes

Abstract

SAN DIEGO — Prior learning assessment might be one of the education modes of the future, but can it be scaled up in an effective way? At the annual conference of the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, Bitsy Cohn, director of credit for prior learning for the Colorado Community College System; Lisa Duddy, academic director for the New Jersey Health Professions Consortium, Bergen County; Anne Kamps, dean of learning solutions at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College; and Heather McKay, director of the Education and Employment Research Center at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, shared ways they used grant money to implement and scale prior learning assessment initiatives.