Thinking About Brains and PLA: A Conversation with Kathleen Taylor and Catherine Marienau

Nan L. Travers, SUNY Empire State College

Nan L. Travers, Ph.D., Director of the Office of Collegewide Academic Review, SUNY Empire State College. Nan focuses on self-designed student degree programs, assessment of prior college-level learning, and ePortfolios. She conducted extensive research and is published in various areas of adult learning, including prior learning assessment. She serves on the board for the Prior Learning International Research Centre (PLIRC) and the start-up board for LearningCounts.org, CAEL. She is the founding co-editor of PLA Inside Out: An International Journal on the Theory, Research, and Practice in Prior Learning Assessment (www.plaio.org). Her doctorate is in Adult Learning from the University of Connecticut.