BCPLAN SYMPOSIUM 2025

When
May 08, 2025
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Location
Kwantlen Polytechnic University—Richmond Campus
Registered
47 registrants

Stronger Together: Innovating the Future of PLAR through Collective Action.

Mark your calendars for the upcoming Symposium!

Location: Kwantlen Polytechnic University—Richmond Campus
Date: Thursday, May 8, 2025
Time: 8:30 am – 5 pm

BCPLAN AGM - 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Anyone welcome!

What to expect?

Lightning Talks – Quick, engaging presentations on new approaches, challenges, and solutions in PLAR.
Presentations – Practitioners in the field will share their best practices and current insights.
Resource Fair – Explore tools, research, and connections that can help advance your work in PLAR.
Panel Discussion – A dynamic conversation featuring experts tackling the most pressing questions in PLAR today.

*This event is in person and will not be recorded or live streamed.

This is more than just an event - it’s an opportunity to connect, collaborate, and take action. We would love for you to join us and be part of these important conversations. We are excited to announce our keynote speaker, David Porter , Ed. D!

Excited to network, learn and connect with others about the future of PLAR? Preview the Conversations That Matter BCPLAN _ Symposium 2025 Final Agenda.docx.pdf

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.

BC Prior Learning Action Network
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