The article explains this problem best with an example from the corporate realm where: "ten years work experience can be described as one year 's experience repeated ten times."(44) this creates an issue of quantity over quality. For an applicant, was that decade spent actively gaining additional knowledge or was it spent doing routine tasks everyday? Therefore, out of two applicants, one with more and one with less experience, it is difficult to determine who 's is more credit-worthy and of higher quality. Therefore, for an institution with a PLAR program to say an individual requires 5, 10, or 15 years of experience to receive credit is not …show more content…
Therefore based on the scenarios that were brought up during this discussion, a program with these goals would be more beneficial if it was to be handled on a case-to-case basis rather than a standardized scale simply because each individual has different learning needs, thought processes, and experiences that would require personalized attention from the educational