Connecting Credentials Framework (CFF)
Innovations in Higher Education: Preparing for the Future of Learning & Work
Gated Content | Gated Information
Credential Transparency Description Language (CTDL) – Credential Engine
Credential Value Index (CVI) – Burning Glass Institute
Hawai‘i’s Public Classifications of Credentials & Promising Credentials in Hawai’I Report
Credential Registry Badge Publisher Tool — Credential Engine
Overview The Credential Registry Badge Publisher Tool, developed by Credential Engine, helps organizations publish detailed Open Badge information within the Credential Registry. This tool allows issuers to map badge metadata […]
Indiana Partnership with Credential Engine
Overview The Indiana Partnership with Credential Engine is a statewide initiative to enhance credential transparency and accessibility for learners, employers, and educators. The initiative is driven by the Indiana Commission […]
Enhancing Global Learning Mobility Through Credential Transparency – AACRAO / Credential Engine
Governance and Technology Needs for Implementing Issuer Registries within Learning and Employment Record Ecosystems –DCC and Credential Engine
Issuer Registries in Practice: Credential Engine & Digital Credentials Consortium Collaboration
Overview The Digital Credentials Consortium (DCC) and Credential Engine are collaborating on a 2024-2025 initiative to explore the governance and technology needs for issuer registries being used within Learning and […]
State of Alabama Workforce Development -Talent Triad
Credential Engine Initiative on Equity, Jobs Skills, and Pathways
Overview In July 2024, Credential Engine launched a 2-year initiative to expand education and employment information available as linked open data in the Credential Registry. The aim of this effort […]
Indiana Commission for Higher Education (CHE)
Center for Skills by C-BEN – Competency-Based Education Network
Overview In April 2024, the Competency-Based Education Network (C-BEN) launched the Center for Skills by C-BEN (CFS x C-BEN). Supported by a $1.5 million grant from Walmart, the Center will […]
Midwest Credential Transparency Alliance (MCTA)
Overview The Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC) launched The Midwest Credential Transparency Alliance (MCTA) in January 2021 to work with all 12 Midwest states to help move them along a path […]
Qualifications Frameworks (QFs)
Scaling the Skills-Based Workforce System in Connecticut (CT)
Overview Led by the Connecticut Office of Workforce Strategy and funded by SkillsFWD, this project is expanding and improving the state’s skills-based hiring ecosystem by leveraging Learning and Employment Records […]
Validated Skills – Accelerate Montana – Montana Credential Registry
Overview Funded by SkillsFWD, Validated Skills is a pilot program of Accelerate Montanta announced in December 2023. The program drives statewide adoption of learning and employment records (LERs) in the […]
Credential Transparency Description Language (CTDL)
Credential Engine developed the Credential Transparency Description Language (CTDL) to ensure that data related to credentials and skills speak a common language. The CTDL is a schema (a type of […]
Credential Registry
The Credential Registry (Registry), operated by Credential Engine, is a public, cloud-based system available to anyone seeking information about a variety of credentials and skills in an easily-accessible format. Users […]
Credential Engine
Credential Registry
Credential Interoperability Frameworks
North Dakota Partnership with Credential Engine
Overview The North Dakota University System, in collaboration with the Statewide Longitudinal Data System (SLDS) and Credential Engine, is giving its residents access to detailed, accurate information about the more […]
Linked, Open Languages/schemas (CTDL & CTDL-ASN)
Overview Credential Engine’s family of specifications are available for use under open licenses. These specs include the Credential Transparency Description Language (CTDL) used to describe credentials and information about them. […]
Alabama Talent Triad
Overview Alabama’s workforce development system is helping state residents acquire the skills, training, and services needed to pursue in-demand jobs in the state. Alabama is building three open-linked data sets, […]
Alabama Partnership with Credential Engine
Overview Leaders in Alabama are developing a statewide Credential Registry as a state-specific subset of the global Credential Registry. They are using the Credential Transparency Description Language (CTDL) available from […]
Accelerating Opportunity: Kansas
Overview The Kansas Board of Regents, in partnership with the Kansas Department of Commerce, has implemented Accelerating Opportunity: Kansas (AO-K) to transform the delivery system for adult education in the […]
Career Bridge
Overview Career Bridge is a public-facing, online resource that students and transitioning workers use to support career and education planning. It is designed to work as a one-stop shop, offering […]