PLA Inside Out

PLA Inside Out: An International Journal on Theory, Research and Practice in Prior Learning Assessment (PLAIO) is the first and only scholarly online journal entirely devoted to the recognition and assessment of prior experiential learning, edited by Nan Travers and Alan Mandell, SUNY Empire State University (USA), Susan Forseille, Thompson Rivers University (Canada), and Ruud Duvekot, UNESCO Research Fellow (Netherlands). Carl Burkart, Empire State University, is the associate editor.

The goal of this electronic publication is to help anchor prior learning assessment work as central to thinking about teaching and learning, to support and recognize scholarly work in the field, to provoke new ideas and experiences in prior learning assessment practices, to provide a central repository for relevant resources, and to place prior learning assessment 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), Validation of Prior Learning (VPL), Recognition, Validation and Accreditation (RVA), Prior Learning Assessment and Articulation (PLAA), and Recognition and Validation of Nonformal and Informal Learning, 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.

For more information about PLAIO, including access to all past issues, please go to: PLAIO.org.