Breaking Down the Silos: An Interview With Bonnie Kennedy

Authors

  • Nan L. Travers SUNY Empire State College
  • Alan Mandell SUNY Empire State College

Abstract

In each issue of PLAIO, we include interviews with scholars and practitioners whose work provides us with new insights into prior learning assessment – into the recognition of experiential learning.

In this interview, Bonnie Kennedy, executive director of CAPLA (the Canadian Association for Prior Learning Assessment), focuses on CAPLA's many efforts to encourage the assessment of work-based learning in order to make "invisible learning, visible" and to enrich employment opportunities for adults.

Author Biography

  • Nan L. Travers, SUNY Empire State College

    Nan L. Travers, Ph.D., Director of the Office of Collegewide Academic Review, SUNY Empire State College. Nan focuses on self-designed student degree programs, assessment of prior college-level learning, and ePortfolios. She conducted extensive research and is published in various areas of adult learning, including prior learning assessment. She serves on the board for the Prior Learning International Research Centre (PLIRC) and the start-up board for LearningCounts.org, CAEL. She is the founding co-editor of PLA Inside Out: An International Journal on the Theory, Research, and Practice in Prior Learning Assessment (www.plaio.org). Her doctorate is in Adult Learning from the University of Connecticut.

Photo of Bonnie Kennedy

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Published

2014-11-25

Issue

No. 4 (2014): PLA and Workplace Learning

Section

Interviews

License

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How to Cite

Breaking Down the Silos: An Interview With Bonnie Kennedy. (2014). PLA Inside Out: An International Journal on Theory, Research and Practice in Prior Learning Assessment, 4(4). https://plaio.org/index.php/home/article/view/82