The opportunity
Prior Learning Assessment
leverages
There's an untapped opportunity- 40 million Americans have earned college credits without completing their degrees - they're ideal candidates for prior learning credit.
They take on average 17 more credits, save a student up to $10,000 in tuition and a year of coursework
of people are more likely to graduate after receiving CPL
of students stop out due to financial reasons
of stop outs are over 25 years old
They are valued by employers for their diverse perspectives and workplace readiness, while faculty appreciate their experience, motivation, and need for practical, supportive learning environments.
of stop outs want to get a degree
We keep good company
We are the adult learners’ #1 solution to reducing time and cost to completion
We empower institutions to recognize and value students' accumulated knowledge by assessing their prior learning.
We keep good company
We help you save time, money and effort
The EAS platform makes it easy for individuals, institution administrators, and faculty to assess prior learning.
Collect
Individuals upload their unique combination of experience, training, college credits, certifications, exams, badges and volunteering and provide artifacts of knowing for specific courses.
Recommend
Faculty are provided course recommendations based on individual’s input that they can approve, deny, or provide an alternative course of action including pushing to faculty in other departments.
Report
Institutions can see where students and faculty are stuck, which experiences and learnings are most valued, who approved what based on the specific artifacts and quickly allocate resources.
Adult learners earn credit for what they know
140M adult learners are waiting for institutions to make it easy to earn credit for prior learning
Providing Agency
The power to start, pause, and amend your experience — control every moment, shape the experience, and make it truly yours.
Demonstration of Knowing
A unified platform for uploading prose, video, or artifacts to demonstrate and validate learning.
Holistic Consideration
Ability to share work, volunteer, training, certificates, exams and stranded credits for comprehensive consideration.
Saving Time and Money
Fast-tracking your degree by reducing both time and costs—making graduation more affordable, efficient, and within reach.
Building Confidence
Acknowledging that adult students have already proven their ability to learn, grow, and succeed.
Advancing Career
Unlocking new opportunities with a degree and experience in high value careers.
Institutions demonstrate commitment to all students
Institutions have the opportunity to make earning credit for prior learning easy while retaining quality and equity
Boosting Graduation Rates
Accelerate the path to a degree while enhancing completion rates, ensuring adult learners achieve their academic goals faster and more efficiently.
Enhancing Outcomes
Harness past experience to enhance career opportunities, increase employability, and maximize learning potential for future success.
Calibrating Awarded Credit
Addressing faculty concerns and providing training to ensure consistency and fairness in credit evaluation.
Evaluating the Process
Leveraging system data to enhance institutional support and resource allocation for Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) initiatives.
Reaching untapped markets
Transform your institution in a destination for lifelong learners and career focused professionals.
Cutting through red tape
Simplify credit assessments with streamlined processes that save both time and money, making the path to degree completion quicker and more cost-effective.
Boosting the value of partner offerings
Increases the value of their credential and provides pathways to degree completion
Reducing the Workload
Streamline the process by entering training and education data just once, enabling multiple institutions to efficiently review and assess it, saving time and reducing redundancy.
Elevating Participants Outcomes
Ensuring seamless transferability with guaranteed credit acceptance at specific institutions, making transitions smoother and more predictable for students.
Creating Stackable Experiences
Reducing both the time and cost needed to build a highly skilled workforce, making education more efficient and accessible for career-driven individuals.
Generating Learning Pathways
Transform a single learning experience into a stackable credit pathway, allowing you to build toward a degree with every step you take.
Reimagining Partnerships
Expand opportunities for participants by identifying and partnering with new institutions, offering a wider range of options for their educational and career advancement.
Optimizing Regional Talent
Create training programs that are highly valued by both institutions and employers, ensuring participants gain relevant skills that enhance their career prospects and academic opportunities.
Providing boosted learning opportunities
From front line to executive, making the training and positions of talent map to college credit
Reducing the Workload
Streamline the process by entering training data just once, enabling multiple institutions to efficiently review and assess it, saving time and reducing redundancy.
Elevating Participants Outcomes
Ensuring seamless transferability with guaranteed credit acceptance at specific institutions, making transitions smoother and more predictable for students.
Creating Stackable Experiences
Reducing both the time and cost needed to build a highly skilled workforce, making education more efficient and accessible for career-driven individuals.
Generating Learning Pathways
Transform a single learning experience into a stackable credit pathway, allowing you to build toward a degree with every step you take.
Reimagining Partnerships
Expand opportunities for participants by identifying and partnering with new institutions, offering a wider range of options for their educational and career advancement.
Optimizing Tuition Benefit
Create training programs that are highly valued by both institutions and employers, ensuring participants gain relevant skills that enhance their career prospects and academic opportunities.
“We just reviewed a set of previously approved credentials in one report upload. Based on our institution's college catalog, the algorithm recommended five classes we had previously not considered by looking at disciplines outside of our department. It resulted in an expansion of credits awarded from 9 credits to 24 credits.”
Dean, Continuing Education
The opportunity Prior Learning Assessment leverages
There's an untapped opportunity- 40 million Americans have earned college credits without completing their degrees - they're ideal candidates for prior learning credit.
They take on average 17 more credits, save a student up to $10,000 in tuition and a year of coursework
of people are more likely to graduate after receiving CPL
of students stop out due to financial reasons
of stop outs are over 25 years old
They are valued by employers for their diverse perspectives and workplace readiness, while faculty appreciate their experience, motivation, and need for practical, supportive learning environments.
of stop outs want to get a degree
Streamline goal tracking
No more email tag or chasing action—set goals for each party and track progress on enrollment, revenue, and completion.
Move PLA actions through the evaluation pipeline
With JIT tracking and email prompting, you can now move more evaluation recommendations to faculty faster for awards.
- See where students are in the process
- Visibility into faculty evaluations
- Which credits are being awarded
Centralization and documentation
Adult Learners follow a two-step guided process to articulate what they did and how their experience translates to learning.
- Prompted to provide information that the faculty need
- Provided opportunity to add documents to validate knowing, including video
- Optional capacity to add courses they believe they have demonstrated competency in
Honoring faculty reviewer authority
Reduce the effort and time needed for faculty to find documents, review and award meaningful course credits.
- See all experience and artifacts in one view
- Comment on rationale tied to award
- Track all activities with date and time stamps
Help your adult learners reach for the stars!
We empower institutions to recognize and value students' accumulated knowledge by assessing their prior learning.
Prior Learning Assessment is a revenue generator like no other
The ROI on PLA is clear: it drives enrollment revenue that exceeds the investments in technology, personnel, and faculty compensation.
Frequently asked questions
Browse our most common inquiries to better understand how we can support your institution's assessment needs.
What are the ethical implications of using AI for PLA with EAS?
EAS is a closed system that is based 100% on the institution’s policy guideline and the faculty retain 100% authority for approving and denying. The algorithm is only trained on approved results. EAS creates a systematic way to bring transparency to a traditionally opaque process. Anyone with administrative access to the system can see what was reviewed by whom date and time stamped. Data is then available for strategic decision making: numbers of students starting, stopping, completing, time for each piece of the process, final credits reviewed, final credits awarded, majors/disciplines that are trending and where more resources are needed.
If we are new to PLA or don’t have fully fleshed out policies/procedures, will EAS work?
Yes, we designed the platform for institutions that are at any stage in their PLA evolution. The data garnered from the platform will help to drive unprecedented insights for data-driven strategic decision-making around modifying policies, practices, and resourcing (from training to institutional partnership to PLA fees).
Do you provide any professional services to help us get set up or lay the foundation?
Yes, our team of higher education professionals can work with you [and/or your team] on everything from building, refining, measuring, or implementing. Our system is based on the CAEL standards and we are committed to creating the optimal PLA for each institution’s context.
How do you compare to Predictor Pro (CPP)?
Our system is based on the CAEL standards and we are committed to creating the optimal PLA for each institution’s context. We provide a significantly different value proposition from the CPP. (link to the comparison doc)
Can we only use EAS for students or do we have to purchase both student and partner?
The platform was designed modularly enabling institutions to choose the preferred deployment. For optimal outcomes, we recommend using the partner side to build out an comprehensive equivalency table (if you don’t already have one) allowing for the system to differentiate institutionally equated experiences (exams, certifications, bootcamps, apprenticeships and training programs) from experiences that haven’t already been considered.
What is the pricing/business model?
We have a flat annual fee for unlimited access to institution’s faculty and staff. Then the students and partners licences are purchased in non-expiring bundles. Both students and partners have unlimited access to update their submissions over time on a singular license.
Are you making the credit decisions?
No – we honor the authority of faculty in making all equivalency decisions. We use AI to map the individual’s experience or partner’s offerings to your college catalog. The faculty will receive recommendations of potential equivalencies that they can approve or deny or provide alternative courses for. We then train the algorithm based on the faculty decisions to make it a better “helper” for future recommendations.
If you use AI, how do you protect data?
We have a proprietary algorithm that is trained to the institution’s specifications. Each institution has a separate instance on AWS with state of the art security and protection. (link to privacy doc)
What are your policies and procedures regarding data storage?
Each institution has their own data tables that do not intermingle data. Each institution has a separate instance on AWS with state of the art security and protection. (link to security doc)
