“Credit for Prior Learning: Planning through Implementation” six module playlist. These trainings are designed to support CPL leads.
To access these modules, log in by entering your email at visionresourcecenter.cccco.edu/login and search for “Credit for Prior Learning: Planning through Implementation” or search by individual modules:
- “Credit for Prior Learning: Introduction”
- “Credit for Prior Learning: Getting Started”
- “Credit for Prior Learning: Working with Faculty”
- “Credit for Prior Learning: Working with Staff and Administrators”
- “Credit for Prior Learning: Working with Curriculum Committee”
- “Credit for Prior Learning: Working with Counselors and Veteran Services”
- CPL Board Policy: BP4235
- CPL Administrative Procedure: AP4235
- CCCCO Guidance System Memorandum ESS 20-300-001 Credit for Prior Learning
- CCCCO CPL Updated Guidelines and Reporting Requirements
- ACCJC Policy-on-Credit-for-Prior-Learning_June-2024
- Cal State and CPL EO 1036
- UC and CPL
- CCC Management Information System CPL Data Elements
- ASCCC Adopted Resolutions April 22, 2023 7.04. Review of Credit for Prior Learning Regulations
- Senate Bill No. 1071
- Senate Bill No. 466
- Santa Monica College:
- TEMPLATE SMC CPL Inventory This spreadsheet is designed to help faculty create an inventory of CPL courses within their discipline.
- ACE Military Guide
- Articulation website: AP, IB, CLEP, DANTES, and DLPT
Palomar College CPL Resources
- Palomar CPL for Military Students (Zoom recording)
- Palomar CPL for Military Students workshop slides
Portfolio Rubric Examples from Palomar College
- Palomar Portfolio Review Templates
Palomar Rubric Examples
- West Hills College: Standard portfolio review framework example
- Portfolio Review – eportfolio in Canvas
Palomar College CPL Petition eForm examples
- Edsource: Why many colleges are giving more credit for learning outside the classroom
- Credit for Prior Learning: Leveraging Past Learning to Close Present-Day Equity Gaps
- Racial Equity and Prior Learning Assessment
- CAEL: How Can Institutions Address the Equity Gap in PLA/CPL Credit Receipt by Adult Learners?
- Flex-Learning-Report-Final
- ACE: Reimagining Transfer for Student Success
- ACE Military Guide_Institution Onboarding Guide_April 2021 (1)
- PLA Boost Report CAEL WICHE – October 2020
- ASCCC: Credit for Prior Learning as an Equity Lever
- Recognition of Learning Tool Box Collaborative efforts provided by the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment for the Learning Recognition Collaborative – an online repository to assist colleges in the recognition of learning.
- Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) Prior Learning Assessment
- Prior Learning Assessment Inside Out: An International Journal on Theory, Research and Practice in Prior learning Assessment
- Lumina Foundation: America’s Call for Higher Education Redesign 75% of Americans would be more likely to enroll in Higher Ed if they could be evaluated and receive credit for what they know.
- CAEL Fueling the Race for Postsecondary Success Longitudinal study of PLA outcomes: shows increased graduation rates and persistence and does not discriminate!
- Joint statement on the transfer and award of credit for AACRAO, ACE and CHEA

