Erica Ellard, Director, Academic Resource Center
Victoria (Tori) Meyer, Associate Professor, Audio Aesthetics & Technology Dept.
Janice (Jan) Palmer, Associate Professor and Chair, Nursing Dept.
Debbie Psihountas, Professor, Business Dept.

Learn more about Prior Learning Assessment (PLA)! PLA is a means by which students, particularly adult students, may earn credit for learning that may have occurred outside a classroom. This opportunity is available to Webster students, and four members of the Webster community attended a workshop provided by the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) to learn more. This presentation will allow those individuals, who now have certificates of mastery in assessing learning for college credit, to share some of the information they learned, including how manageable this process truly is and how it can be used to help Webster students matriculate, persist, and graduate. Webster students may enroll in the online course EDUC 1000: Educational Program Analysis to help them build portfolios to document their learning. The course provides them with a meaningful framework for understanding their learning as they take an active role in shaping and presenting it for review.