Recognition of Academic Achievement:
Any RPL process includes a step to validate academic achievements earned at another institution. At the university level, this recognition takes the form of course or credit equivalencies.
Recognition of prior learning from experience (non-academic): This type of recognition is more complex to implement. At the college level, the process is well-structured, and the standards governing the design of assessment tools are established by the Ministry of Higher Education (MES, 2021b). At the university level, the recognition of experiential learning is developing but remains in a more embryonic stage than at the college level. Universities have the autonomy to develop their own RPL practices (Morrissette and Larochelle, 2021).
