Office for Prior Learning Assessment
News & Events
May 19, 2011
"Recent research by Stamats, a higher-education marketing company, indicates that the availability of credit for life experience is the No. 1 thing adults look for when selecting a college." As one professor discovered, today "evaluations of what educators call prior learning—which can include on-the-job training, military experience, or even volunteering—are not only legitimate but necessary. To accept the legitimacy of experiential learning is to expand the definition not only of college credit, but of college itself."
May 18, 2011
Incomes, job security, and economic growth increasingly depend on postsecondary credentials with value in the labor market. Postsecondary credentials have become the keys to individual self-sufficiency, greater civic participation, and higher levels of family well-being, as well as the catalysts for local, regional, and national economic growth.
May 18, 2011
"One of the fastest, cheapest, and most effective ways to increase the number of citizens in your state with a college certificate or degree is to target adults who have 'some college, but no degree.' Many of these individuals already have sufficient credits for an associate degree, and many more are just a few credits shy of earning a...bachelor's degree....States and institutes of higher learning can make use of 'prior learning assessments' to grant credit for college-level skills learned outside of the classroom..."
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