Recognition of prior learning

Recognition of prior learning describes a process used by educators and employers to evaluate skills and knowledge acquired outside the classroom.

Quotes

 * Assessment of prior experiential learning (APEL) ... can grant visibility to outsider knowledge that is valuable for its divergence from academic ways of knowing, not only its similarity, and rewrite the relationship between experiential learning and academic authority.
 * Elana Michelson, "Beyond Galileo's Telescope: Situated Knowledge and the Assessment of Experiential Learning," Adult Education Quarterly, Vol. 46, no. 4, Summer 1996, p. 185.