The Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) this week announced that it is now partnering with colleges to directly award college credit based on its LearningCounts prior learning assessments, which measure learning gained outside of the traditional classroom. The announcement marks a shift for CAEL, which had previously included credit recommendations from the American Council on Education (ACE) as one of its credit pathways under Learning Counts. But after this month, ACE will no longer issue those recommendations. Several institutions have signed on to the new process, and CAEL will also offer credit recommendations through the National College Credit Recommendation Service (NCCRS).