Session Presenter: Dr. Nan Travers

Dr. Nan Travers, Consultant, Intrascope, LLC, is recently retired as the director for the Center for Leadership in Credentialing Learning at SUNY Empire State University. Her work focuses on research, policies and practices of the recognition, validation, and credentialing of learning, nationally and globally.

She is the co-lead for the Credential As You Go national initiative, with past funding through Lumina Foundation, U.S. Department of Education Institute for Educational Sciences, and Walmart. She has been the PI for multiple other grants and projects focused on innovative strategies for prior learning assessment and credentialing.

Travers serves as founding co-editor for the journal: PLA Inside Out (www.plaio.org), is a co-founder of the Prior Learning Assessment Network (PLAN), and led the development of the Learning Recognition Toolkit, and open source website for institutions on prior learning processes. Her doctorate is in Adult Learning from the University of Connecticut.