Microcredentials, Skills Badging, LER's, and Credit for Prior Learning Resources

The WCET Steering Committee Microcredentialing workgroup is a small and passionate group of higher education leaders and practitioners. Led by Krysia Lazarewicz, Wiley University Services, and Suzanne Ehrlich, University of North Florida, the group has had discussions since December 2022 […]

Digital wallets that store career credentials promise benefits for recruiters and job candidates.

CLRs, LERs, and Leveraging the Open Edtech Ecosystem for Lifelong Learning and Career OpportunitiesA conversation between Guillermo Elizondo, co-founder and ...

Date of Recording: 11/03/2022 With support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, AACRAO has convened a CLR/LER Community of Practice to advance knowledge and best practices around Comprehensive Learner Records and Learning and Employment Records within higher education institutions. Within our efforts to ensure that our member's voices are heard within these conversations, AACRAO has been at the forefront of leading industry conversations and forging strategic partnerships, such as the Credentials Future Coalition, to guide the knowledge and insights that our members need to implement these tools on campus successfully.

Education Quality Outcomes Standards (EQOS) establishes universal, independent measures of education and training program quality to help people navigate the increasingly crowded and confusing education and training marketplace.

Credentials and learner records are accelerating the shift to competency-based learning and help learners manage unbundled learning by collecting evidence from multiple providers and provide quicker and more personalized onramps to high-wage employment.

Finding the language to empower your community ASU TLN Unconference - May 18, 2023 Dr. Kerri Lemoie & Gillian Walsh Verifiable LERs

For All Audiences   Questions What is an Open Badge? What is a Comprehensive Learner Record (CLR)? What is the Difference between Open Badges, Comprehensive Learner Records, Transcripts, and Resumes? What’s the difference between a Comprehensive Learner Record (CLR) and a Learner Employment Record (LER)

The charge of this project is using artificial intelligence to assist in aggregating and organizing unstructured learning and employment data into structured formats necessary to populate an LER.

Listen to this episode from Change-Makers in Higher Ed on Spotify. How Can We Accelerate Micro-Credentialing? Is one of the most important questions educators, and those working in higher education, can ask if they are interested in innovating teaching and learning. Campuses across the country are adding micro-credentials to their course lists, setting students up for career success once they graduate. The workforce has been quick to implement microcredentials too, as corporations partner with institutions to create alternative credentials. Also, corporations themselves are offering MCs to help students matriculate directly into their companies. Are you curious about Microcredentials?  Tune into this episode to hear from two change-makers, Jessica Dupont, Executive Director of Market Development and the Student Experience at Oregon State University and Sean Gallagher, Founder and Executive Director of Northeastern University’s Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy and Executive Professor of Educational Policy at Northeastern University to learn how microCredentials have impacted their campuses and others nationwide.

Overview and Introduction Today, we conclude the WCET blog series on microcredentials which set out to address the inception, implementation, and evaluation of microcredentialing approaches across the higher education industry. We learned that there is a wide range of reasons […]

Understand the type of microcredentials that exist to decide whether or not to add these credentials to you academic offerings.

Microcredentialing programs remain nascent at many institutions, but interest continues to grow. As the demand for flexible learning experiences incre

5 verbs: Issue, Earn, Store, Share, Spend. A universal, open source digital & physical learner wallet that can connect to any system. The Metamask for digital credentials, education, and employment.

CyManII is an inclusive national research Institute with major leading universities that leverages DOE labs such as ORNL, INL and Sandia National Laboratories.

Watch Accredible CEO and Co-Founder Danny King, appear on a panel at the 2023 ASU+GSV Summit to discuss blockchain credentialing and learning and employment records

Exploring Innovative Models for Microcredentials in Higher EducationMicrocredentials have emerged as a flexible and efficient way for institutions to meet th...

New approaches to CPL can result in more adult college students and more equitable outcomes for them, writes Michelle Navarre Cleary, an educator focused on adult learners’ success. She offers four actions to take.