EdSource

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

EdSource · From a juvenile facility to a college dorm room When she enlisted in the Navy in 2003, Alice Keeney attended naval nuclear power school. There, she learned how to safely operate the nuclear ...
Inside Higher Ed

Listen: Encouraging Innovation in Credit for Prior Learning

Credit for prior learning is one strategy colleges and states can employ to expedite adult learners’ progress toward their degrees and promote student success. Past research also shows that students ...
KSL

Give your experience the credit it deserves: UVU's Credit for Prior Learning program

Credit for Prior Learning is a game-changer for adult learners. "Learning happens in more places than a traditional classroom, so we want to apply that learning toward people's educational goals," ...
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 ...
SUNY Cortland

Credit for Prior Learning

Students who have acquired skills and knowledge through prior learning experiences might be equivalent to college-level credit. Credit for Prior Learning (CPL) is available in certain instances if ...
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 ...
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,” ...
Campus Technology

6 Steps to Move Prior Learning Assessment Forward

A new report from Capella University shares ways institutions can grow their prior learning assessment (PLA) offerings. The PLA model is "the practice of documenting a learner's existing knowledge and ...
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 ...
Morningstar

University of Phoenix releases white paper on Credit for Prior Learning as a catalyst for internal mobility and retention

Credit for prior learning is one way we say to them, what you already know counts. When employers and universities recognize that learning, remove redundant coursework and create clear, credit-bearing ...
Business Wire

University of Phoenix Traditional MBA Program Offers Opportunity for Credit for Prior Learning

PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--University of Phoenix is pleased to share that it offers qualified students enrolled in its traditional online Master of Business Administration (MBA) or Master of Management ...
SUNY-ESF

Credit for Prior Learning

At ESF, we acknowledge that some students have acquired skills and knowledge through prior learning experiences that may be equivalent to college-level credit. Credit for prior learning (CPL) is ...