Leading Transformation in Prior Learning Policy and Practice : Innovating APL, PLA, RPL

No. 1 in Amazon Best Sellers Rank, for books dedicated to APEL - 17th September 2013.

Believing higher level learning is created through work and life is still a radical belief in traditional higher education globally. Yet it is a powerful belief that can create new growth opportunities for individuals and higher education institutions alike.

This practical book is for practitioners or leaders in institutions wanting to expand or develop policy or practices for the recognition of prior learning (RPL), accreditation of prior learning (APL) or prior learning assessment (PLA).

This book:
> helps practitioners initiate change
> uses ideas informed by practitioner research
> asks key reflective questions for change.

REVIEW:

"Tony Wall has been in the vanguard of promoting and developing innovative and practical approaches to the formal acknowledgement of prior learning by universities and others for many years. This latest contribution to the field moves the debate - not least about how to extend and broaden access to successful tertiary educational experiences - on yet again."

Professor Emeritus Stuart Billingham, Coordinator of the World Congress SAY Ambassador Programme, Chair of NYBEP, Trustee of UNITE Foundation.

Tony Wall, BSc(Hons) BBA MSc MA ACIPD CMALT NLPMP FHEA FRSA, is a Senior Lecturer, Principal Investigator and International Work Based Learning Consultant at the University of Chester's Centre for Work Related Studies, United Kingdom. He is a specialist in personal and organisational transformation through work-based learning – using ideas from leadership, learning and applied psychology to help practitioners work through and rigorously investigate real world situations, leading to deeper, longer-lasting impact. He has action researched a number of flexible systems to promote the recognition of experiential learning through APL / PLA / RPL (accreditation of prior learning, prior learning assessment, recognition of prior learning). Tony works closely with businesses, training and educational organisations internationally to boost learning effectiveness through the university-accreditation of training courses – enabling learners to make bigger, longer-lasting, impacts at work – and at the same time – achieve prestigious university qualifications. He speaks internationally on issues related to work-based learning and personal transformation.