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 1 (2012): The Legacy of PLA: 40 Years of Practice
We celebrate the recognition of prior learning. An experimental activity that began in earnest less than a half-century ago in a handful of North American colleges and universities is now practiced in thousands of institutions, large and small, across the world and referred to in many ways. Initiated as a means to legitimate the power of experience, to acknowledge the limitations of traditional assumptions about knowledge, and to question seat time as the only means to judge true learning, the recognition of prior learning has become a critical tool of access and a significant part of a movement for educational and social justice.
This inaugural issue of PLAIO focuses on the historical roots of prior learning assessment and examines how these foundations are connected to--or disconnected from--current trends in higher education.
Table of Contents
Editorial
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The Power of Experience Inside Out |
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Alan Mandell, Nan Travers |
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Invited Essay
Inquiry (Peer-Reviewed)
Interviews
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Imagining What is Open: An Interview with Sir John Daniel |
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Alan Mandell, Nan Travers |
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Recognizing PLA: An Interview with Debbi Dagavarian |
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Viktoria Popova-Gonci |
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Practice Today
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Making Experience Count for Entry to B.A. Management with Advanced Standing: A Case Study in RPL |
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Lea McKay |
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Book Reviews
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The Complexities of Research into Prior Learning Assessments: Some Reflections |
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Xenia Coulter |
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Ask A Question
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Searching for a PLA/RPL Model |
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Morry Fiddler |
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Resources
PLIRC Research Database
Networking
