PLA Inside Out (PLAIO) is the first scholarly online journal entirely devoted to the recognition and assessment of prior experiential learning.
The goal of this electronic publication is to help anchor prior learning assessment (PLA) work as central to our thinking about teaching and learning, to support and recognize scholarly work in the field of prior learning assessment, to provoke new ideas and experiences in PLA practices, to provide a central repository for PLA-relevant resources, and to place our PLA work in an historical context.
Prior learning assessment is known throughout the world by many different names: Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL), Assessment of Prior Learning (APL), Assessment of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL), Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR), and Prior Learning Assessment and Articulation (PLAA), to name a few. The goal of PLAIO is to address all forms of recognizing, articulating and assessing prior college-level learning, regardless of its name or its country of origin.
Co-Editors:
Nan Travers, Director of Collegewide Academic Review
Alan Mandell, College Professor of Adult Learning and Mentoring
SUNY Empire State College
Vol 1, No 2 (2012): PLA: Quality Assurance and Accountability
Even as PLA has become a more regular feature of higher education; even as PLA and its myriad practices have been recognized as a legitimate way to acknowledge college-level learning regardless of the origins of that learning, the question of quality cannot disappear. Detractors have always questioned the academic viability of PLA, but even those of us who have championed its cause have to take responsibility for regularly grappling with the important issues of quality assurance and accountability that emerge in every aspect of our PLA work.
The second issue of PLAIO focuses on a range of issues, problems and questions concerning quality assurance and accountability.
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Table of Contents
Editorial
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Quality and Legitimacy |
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Alan Mandell, Nan Travers |
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Invited Essay
Inquiry (Peer-Reviewed)
Interviews
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A Second Chance for Qualification: An Interview with Patrick Werquin |
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Alan Mandell, Nan Travers |
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Breaking Barriers, Finding Alternatives: An Interview with Susan Simosko |
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Viktoria Popova-Gonci |
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Practice Today
Ask A Question
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Applying CAEL Standard IX |
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Morry Fiddler, Gabrielle Dietzel |
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Resources
PLIRC Research Database
