NALL – Various Projects and Resources

NALL (New Approaches to Lifelong Learning) NALL, as part of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), under the leadership of Dr. David Livingstone, has done research on informal learning and PLAR between 1997 and 2001. NALL’s basic objectives are to document current relations between informal learning and formal/nonformal education, identify major social barriers […]

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PLA: A Guidebook to American Institutional Practices

This is a print publication available for purchase from the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL). Based on a CAEL survey, the Guidebook outlines the use and acceptance of prior learning assessment methodologies in post-secondary institutions in the United States. These include: portfolio, standardized exams, challenge exams, the formal assessment of non-college programs by […]

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