It’s personal
Karen benefited from the credit for prior learning experience, which propelled her successful career from the military into higher education leadership.
Credit for prior learning is still a hard and cumbersome process for students, faculty, staff, and employers.
EAS was created by two higher education professionals who brought together their lived experiences and the lessons learned in almost 50 years in higher education. In November 2019, after presenting at a conference focusing on AI student facing apps, we started talking about PLA.
EAS emerged as an opportunity to leverage AI, provide a centralized method to collect student information without 1:1 guidance; support the faculty with recommendations, calibrate credit awards across reviewers, and bring data transparency to ensure optimal resource allocation.
The vision has grown to provide insights at the competency level -- mapping JIT learning to employment.
1950s
The notion of PLA was spawned from the GI Bill and the desire for military training to map to college credit.
1974
CAEL codifies PLA framework
1994
Karen joins the military
1996
She starts taking college classes
2001
She finds out about PLA at Southern Illinois University
2002
Bachelor’s earned
2004
Masters awarded
2006
PhD conferred
2007
Faculty member
2017
Provost, CSU Global
2022
President, Salem University
