Adult Students

The fastest, most efficient way to further your education is to look for higher education institutions that offer Prior Learning Assessment (PLA), which enables you to earn college credit for what you already know from your life and work experience.

The Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) offers a couple of ways for you to find out more:

  • Visit our website, LearningCounts.org, to learn about PLA and view a list of institutions that accept PLA credits
  • Evaluate your own experience using our book, Earn College Credit for What You Know (see below for more information about the book)

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Research & Publications

2013

  • Achieving Dreams: Results from a Survey of Students using LearningCounts Portfolios to Earn College Credit

    CAEL

    The benefits of LearningCounts are very real for adult learners. Successful portfolios can save students a significant amount of time and money when they can apply these credits towards their postsecondary degrees. CAEL recently reached out to current and former LearningCounts students to learn more about them—what brought them to LearningCounts, their experiences with the program, and the impact of portfolio assessment on the achievement of their education and career goals.

2012

  • Earn College Credit for What You Know, fifth edition

    Janet Colvin

    This edition offers the latest, most current information on prior learning assessment (PLA). Earlier editions of this book, specifically written for adult learners considering the prior learning assessment process, have assisted tens of thousands of adult learners.  The book is also helpful to evaluators, administrators, faculty, and training managers.  Many CAEL member institutions use this book as text for their PLA portfolio development courses.

    The new 5th edition of Earn College for What You Know features: 
     

    • Updated references throughout the publication
    • Exercises for understanding and applying learning theory
    • Profiles of adult students and their successful use of prior learning assessment to complete their degrees
    • Explanation of the CAEL standards for quality prior learning assessment
    • An expanded and refined focus on the use of online portfolios

    A 20% discount is available for members. Price: $29.95, E-Book Price: $14.95

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