How it works
We empower institutions to recognize and value students' accumulated knowledge by assessing their prior learning.
Prior Learning Assessment (PLA), allows individuals to earn college credit for knowledge gained outside traditional classrooms.
By evaluating skills from work experience, military service, volunteer activities, and self-study, PLA helps students fast-track their education, saving both time and money.
Prior Learning Assessment is a constellation of opportunities
We empower institutions to recognize and value students' accumulated knowledge by assessing their prior learning.
George has stopped and started his degree pursuits multiple times. With 6 years of experience, he's committed to finishing up. His only constraint is his access to financial aid due to the number of credits he has taken.
Bruce's son is 16 and doesn't want to go to college. Bruce wants his son to gain skills that can count towards a degree should he decide to go to college in the future.
Emily wants a promotion but needs a degree. With credits, microcredentials, and 15 years leading tech teams, she seeks quick confirmation of prior learning credit—no commitment, no waiting.
Summit Heights University seeks to boost completion rates by incentivizing former students—90% out for 3+ years, likely working—to return and finish their degrees.
SkillFront Training has updated their curriculum, which now includes over 100 trainings that five institutions need to evaluate. Previously, this process took over a year.
Erin, a high performer, is offered a tuition benefit to complete her master's. Three schools accept her employer's training for credit. Will they also consider her 20 years of leadership for experiential credit?
Pinnacle Solutions is overhauling their corporate training to partner with local colleges, aiming to convert training into college credit.
Janie has 12 years of experience training people on technical applications. It's time to get a degree so she can get a promotion.
Robert was just laid off and the market is competitive. He has the option to complete his degree at a local university or take a series of microcredentials.
Regional Talent Initiative is partnering with companies who are downsizing to see if any talent can be upskilled for new industries moving to the region.
The college president is enhancing regional and employer relations with a strategic initiative for adult learners.
Seamless integration with your student systems
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Interoperable
The EAS platform can deliver smooth, continuous data exchange between your technical systems, empowering informed strategic choices. Simplified UX for validated credentials.
Secure
Leveraging AWS infrastructure, we ensure your institutional data remains isolated and protected using industry-leading privacy protocols.
Accessible
Our platform incorporates inclusive design principles, ensuring users of all abilities can fully engage with and benefit from the system’s capabilities.
Precision resource planning through data
Transform your institution's decision-making with real-time analytics. EAS delivers just-in-time data insights that enable leaders to strategically allocate resources for maximum impact and measurable results.
Track student progression in real-time, identifying key success points and potential barriers to completion.
Monitor evaluation patterns and credit distribution trends to optimize academic assessment processes.
Measure the effectiveness of awarded credits and their value to degree completion paths.
What’s included
Our flexible platform adapts to your institution's unique prior learning assessment needs, delivering exceptional ROI through comprehensive features.
Customizable permission levels and role-based training ensure secure, appropriate platform access for your entire academic team.
Enable partner providers to update their offerings in a templated format to ensure you have all of the information you need without having to track emails and follow up
Seamlessly engage students at every enrollment stage, from prospective to enrolled learners, through assessment inquiries based on learning outcomes and competencies specific to the course.
Generate detailed, customizable reports that enhance transparency, strategically allocate resources, and uphold institutional accountability. These reports offer a thorough insight into operations.
Frequently asked questions
Everything you need to know about how the product works
We have a CLR (or LER or student wallet), how does that work with the platform?
We are committed to interoperability and are members of the 1EdTech community to ensure that our systems are optimized for the best user experience. Let’s discuss what you have and how we can seamlessly ingest that data without creating additional work for anyone in the ecosystem!
What are my compatibility and integration options?
We are committed to interoperability and are members of the 1EdTech community to ensure that our systems are optimized across the higher education ecosystem. To discuss which systems you are interested in integrating with, please contact us.
How do students access this tool?
It depends on how the institution wants to invite individuals (email, website, portal) and at what point in the student journey, including at inquiry, application, admissions, enrolled or stopped out. Of course, there is always the option to have them all available! To discuss how it can work for you, please contact us.
Will we have advisers inundated with walking students through this?
The platform was designed to be fully authentic to the experience that institutions want to have with their students. Best practices include an explainer video, basic metrics for students to understand the value of their investment of time, and guidance on how the reviewers consider the individual’s input. By using these best practices, students have agency to complete the process without needing to work with an individual or sign up for a class.
We update our course catalogue regularly. How often do we need to update the platform and how difficult is it to interface it “real time”?
EAS was designed to accommodate changes to the curriculum both on cycle and off-cycle. Changes can be uploaded by individual courses or by the full catalog.
Can we collect the major or degree sought?
Yes! EAS can collect whatever information is helpful to the institution reviewer.
Will the platform increase faculty workloads?
The EAS platform was designed to reduce the workload on faculty by providing them recommendations of specific courses that they can approve or deny. Faculty have reported that they have spent less time because they are not tracking information in emails and multiple systems. Plus they are looking at a discreet course and option.
How have the faculty responded to using EAS?
In short, they have been surprised by how easy the interface is to use, the accuracy of the recommendations and the ability to say yes, no, or provide an alternative course. EAS was designed to reduce the workload on faculty by providing them recommendations of specific courses that they can approve or deny. Faculty have reported that they have spent less time because they are not tracking information in emails and multiple systems, plus they know what they are looking for.
How have the Advisors responded to using the platform?
Advisors have been relieved. No longer are they chasing students or faculty. Rather, they have full insight into where a review is in process and can see what reminders have been generated. They are able to provide JIT feedback and updates to students.
How quick does EAS respond to requests for modifications if needed?
EAS has a 24 hour SLA to review and provide feedback to institutions on the level of modifications being requested.
What if we don't evaluate one of the modules? Can we customize the platform?
The platform was designed to be fully authentic to the experience that institutions want to have with their students and faculty while being in alignment with their policy and processes. The modular design gives institutions broad flexibility in making the system work in their context.
