This YouTube channel, created by Deb Carr offers 14 webinars on how to “Do RPL Better”. These webinars are based on findings from her master’s thesis: Global Learning – The RPL Candidate – a neglected stakeholder. YouTube channel

Verifies skills to develop RPL Toolkits and cluster units of competency for assessment through a learn-and-assess OR assessment-only pathway.

This Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) Handbook, authored by Nan L. Travers contains 7 chapters: Introduction to Prior Learning Assessment (PLA); The Five Critical Factors of PLA Programs; PLA Philosophy, Mission and Policies; Institutional Support of PLA; PLA Program Practices; Professional Development on PLA; and PLA Program Evaluation. Its appendices include PLA Policy and Practice Considerations […]

A “how to” guide for all elements and stages of the RPL process.

Contains four main sections: Overview chapters Researching the Recognition of Prior Learning: The emergence of a field; and Advances in Theorising RPL; Policy-oriented chapters Lifelong Learning Policy and RPL in the Learning Society: The promise of Faure?; and RPL, Labour Markets and National Qualifications Frameworks: A policy perspective; Issues-based chapters RPL and Workforce Development; Treading […]

The scenario presented to the reader is a policy recommendation illustrating how to introduce transversal competences into guidance and validation while taking into account different learning pathways of the candidates participating in these processes.