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Institutional Readiness for Prior Learning Assessment
Type of Presentation
Concurrent Session (45 minutes)
Session Abstract
Prior Learning Assessment, a hallmark of adult degree programs, requires the development and maintenance of robust, quality processes. This session showcases institutional “readiness” for determining sound and relevant PLA options.
Target Audience
The session is intended for faculty and administrators in adult higher education programs who are interested in beginning a PLA process or who need to refresh a fledgling program.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will be able to use a self-assessment survey to review their own institution’s readiness for prior learning assessment and to identify strategies to build a new PLA initiative or update and reaffirm an existing one.
Session Description
What do institutions need to know about themselves in order to plan and maintain effective Prior Learning Assessment processes? At last year’s AHEA pre-conference in Las Vegas, participants completed a pilot of the institutional self-assessment survey that will be used in this session. Since that time, the survey has been refined in light of what ACE’s Center for Education Attainment and Innovation has discovered about promoting PLA in three regions of the country. This session will provide foundational information for those who see PLA as both a learning experience and service opportunity for adult learners.
Efforts are made to try to schedule sessions on the day preferred by the Primary Presenter, though this cannot be guaranteed. Please check your preference.
No preference
Primary Presenter
Patricia Brewer, EdD, American Council on Education
Work Title
Midwest Regional Liaison