One common way in which educators do use rigor to mean unyielding or rigid is when they are referring to ârigorousâ learning standards and high expectations âi.e., when they are calling for all students to be held to the same challenging academic standards and expectations.
What is PLA? Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) is the process of evaluating and awarding credit for college-level learning acquired outside of the traditional classroom. This type of learning is also known as informal and non-formal learning. Prior learning is sometimes referred to as experiential learning. In many other countries the term recognition is included (e.g., prior learning assessment and recognition).
PLOS is a nonprofit open access science, technology and medicine publisher, innovator and advocacy organization with a library of open access journals and other scientific literature under an open content license. It launched its first journal, PLOS Biology, in October 2003 and publishes seven journals, as of October 2015. The organization is based in San Francisco, California, and has a European editorial office in Cambridge, England. The publications are primarily funded by payments from the a