Opportunity College & University (OCU) – Carnegie Classifications for Student Access & Earnings
Extended Pathways
ChatGPT Study Mode
Research Report: 2024 National DACA Survey
Innovations in Higher Education: Preparing for the Future of Learning & Work
Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) Code
Digital Employee Experience (DEX)
Credential Value Index (CVI) – Burning Glass Institute
AI Academy & Futures Skills Board – General Assembly
Apprenticeship Repository – Registered Apprenticeship Partners Information Database System (RAPIDS) – U.S. Department of Labor
VALID-8 — Vametric
Report: 8 Reasons Why Skills Training Is Key To Economic Prosperity: The Empirical Case For Investments In Workforce Development — National Skills Coalition
Apprenti Registered Apprenticeship Program
Research Report: “Governors Reshaping Workforce Development: Turning WIOA Challenges into Workforce Solutions”– Project on Workforce & National Governors Association
Career Passport—California
Research: “Launchpad Jobs: Achieving Career and Economic Success Without a Degree” — American Student Assistance & Burning Glass Institute
LER Toolkit – T3 Innovation Network
Cybersecurity Workforce Alliance (CWA)
Credit for Prior Learning Policies: A Database of Findings from the ACE-CAEL 50-State Analysis
The Rise of Mega-Universities
SkillStorm
SkillsAware (Australia)
XR (extended reality), MR (mixed reality), AR (augmented reality), VR (virtual reality)
Florida Collegiate Purple Star Campus Program (Military)
Purple Star Campus
Transformers in the Public Sector – Opportunity@Work
Prior Learning Network– American Council on Education
Today’s Military Learners – American Council on Education
Military Classifications for Protected Categories
Federal Laws Prohibiting Discrimination in Employment
Federal Laws Prohibiting Discrimination in Employment based on Service Member or Veteran Status
Occupational Mobility Explorer – Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia & Cleveland
EBSCO Information Services
Managing Self-Sovereign Learning and Employment Records through LER.me – EBSCOed
College Credit for Industry-Recognized Credentials – State of Ohio
Overview College Credit for Industry-Recognized Credentials is a key transfer initiative in Ohio and part of Ohio Transfer Promise initiative. Through the Industry Recognized Credential Transfer Assurance Guides (ITAGs), individuals […]
Experience You – Education Design Lab & T3 Innovation Network
Overview Launched in January 2023 by the Education Design Lab (the Lab) and the T3 Innovation Network, the Experience You initiative explores how new technologies can convert massive amounts of […]
Joint-Services Transcript (JST)
American Workforce Policy Advisory Board, Learning and Employment Records — White House & T3 Innovation Network
Overview On July 17, 2018, President Trump issued Executive Order 13845 which established the National Council for the American Worker (NCAW). This interagency council was charged with drafting a national […]
Project Kitty Hawk – North Carolina
Overview The 2021 North Carolina General Assembly allocated $97 million to start Project Kitty Hawk, a nonprofit ed-tech startup focused on producing a diverse, globally competitive workforce, fostering scholarly research, […]
Skills-First Hiring for State Government-California
Overview California is one of 21 states that has adopted skills-first hiring practices for state government positions. This approach means that college degrees and job histories are no longer being used […]
State of Alabama Workforce Development -Talent Triad
Measurement For Mobility: How States Can Use Data to Incentivize Postsecondary & Workforce Success in Public Education (Education Strategy Group)
Overview Measurement For Mobility: How States Can Use Data to Incentivize Postsecondary and Workforce Success in Public Education is a report (45 pages) issued May 2024 by Education Strategy Group […]
Ithaka S+R
Support Student Success through Holistic Credit Mobility Policies, Practices, & Technologies – Ithaka S+R & Complete College America
Overview In July 2024, Ithaka S+R and Complete College America announced a partnership to support student success through student success through holistic credit mobility policies, practices, and technologies. The project’s […]
Reduced-Credit Bachelor’s Degree Program
HBCU Adult Learner Initiative (ALI)
Overview In fall 2021, Lumina Foundation awarded a $2 million grant to the HBCU Adult Learner Initiative (ALI) to identify and eliminate various barriers blocking adult students from the education […]
Data Common to Education/Workforce: Student Data, Postsecondary Data, Workforce Data
Data 101 – Data Quality Campaign
Overview In 2023, the Data Quality Campaign (DQC) issued Data 101, a briefing book to inform education leaders, policymakers, and other stakeholders about key topics related to education and workforce […]
Paper Ceiling
Minnesota State System
Learning Evaluation & Recognition for the Next Generation (LEARN) Commission – AACRAO & SOVA
Overview Launched in 2024, the Learning Evaluation and Recognition for the Next Generation (LEARN) Commission is a national effort to recognize undergraduate learning and to improve credit evaluation policies and […]
National Labor Exchange (NLx) – National Association of State Workforce Agencies
Overview Founded in 2007, the National Labor Exchange (NLx) is an electronic labor-exchange network created via partnership agreement between NASWA and DirectEmployers Association (DirectEmployers). The public-private partnership leverages private nonprofit-owned technology with […]
Credit Transfer: Credit by Exam, College-Level Examination Program® (CLEP), Course Review/Recommendations
WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies (WCET)
Standardized Test / Testing
DACA – Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
Credit Mobility / Holistic Credit Mobility
Transfer & Credit Mobility Technology
STARS—Skilled Through Alternative Routes
CareerNavGPT – SkillUp Coalition
Overview Launched by the SkillUp Coalition, CareerNavGPT has a mission to provide a guided and supported path to ensure that all STARs have access to high-opportunity and quality employment. CareerNacGPT […]
College Credit for Military Experience – North Carolina Military Equivalency System
Overview In February 2024, the University of North Carolina System (UNC) launched a new tool to translate military occupations and training to college courses across its 16 public universities. The […]
Skilled Trades
Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP)
Indiana Model Credit for Prior Learning Policy Guidance
Overview In March 2024, the Indiana Commission for Higher Education launched the Indiana Model Credit for Prior Learning Policy Guidance, a first-time statewide policy guidance for credit for prior learning. […]
Crosswalks
Workforce of the Future Playbook – Federal Government
Overview Collectively, the federal agencies lead the nation’s largest workforce of more than 2.2 million federal employees. In February 2024, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued the Workforce of […]
Career Pathways in the Workforce Intelligence Network (WIN) – Michigan
Overview The Workforce Intelligence Network (WIN) is a partnership of ten community colleges and seven Michigan Works! Agencies in southeast Michigan that fosters collaboration among workforce development, community colleges, four-year […]
The Manufacturing Readiness Project – SOLID LLC
Overview The Manufacturing Readiness Project launched in 2023 to make it easier for military veterans to find quality civilian careers in manufacturing—and for manufacturers to build a talented workforce. The […]
Open Assessment
Universal Credit Transfer Explorer – Ithaka S+R
Overview In February 2024, Ithaka S+R launched a public, non-profit, national credit mobility website. The aim of the initiative is to help address the challenges college students face when they […]
Fraudulent Credentials
Three-year Baccalaureate Degree (Accelerated, Fast Track, or Reduced Credit Degree Programs)
Student Financial Aid Models – Finance
Career Development Incentive Program (CDIP) – State of Colorado
Overview Colorado’s Career Development Incentive Program (also known as the Career Development Success Program) provides financial incentives for school districts and charter schools that encourage high school students in grades […]
SkillsFWD
Overview SkillsFWD is an initiative to catalyze a more equitable skills-based hiring ecosystem leveraging Learning and Employment Records (LERs). The initiative is managed by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors with funding support […]
Technology Systems & Tools in Learn-and-Work Ecosystem
Skilled Through Alternative Routes (STARs) – Opportunity@Work
Overview STARs is a national initiative created and managed by the nonprofit organization, Opportunity@Work. The organization’s mission is to rewire the U.S. labor market so that all individuals “skilled through alternative […]
C-BEN Report: Interoperable Learning & Employment Records – Where knowledge and skills are transparent, accessible and easily shared
Overview In April 2023, the Competency-based Education Network (C-BEN) issued a report, Interoperable Learning & Employment Records – Where knowledge and skills are transparent, accessible, and easily shared. The report includes […]
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 […]
Credit for Prior Learning
Prior learning assessment (aka recognition of prior learning) is a term used for various methods of valuing college-level learning that has taken place outside of formal educational institutions, that can […]
Learning Frameworks
Learning frameworks are tools that specify learning outcomes and/or competencies that define, classify, and recognize educational, learner, and industry expectations of knowledge, skills, and abilities at increasing levels of complexity […]
Adult Learners
Adult learners are known by a variety of names: nontraditional students, adult students, returning adults, adult returners, mature learners, comebackers. Common characteristics: usually 25 or older; delayed entering college for […]
Career Navigation
Career navigation services help individuals of all ages understand how their personal interests, abilities, and values can help shape their educational and career goals and contribute to their success. A […]
Instant Teams
XCredit Skills Validation – Education Design Lab
Overview Launched in summer 2021, XCredit Skills Validation is an initiative of the Education Design Lab. The Lab developed the concept of an employer-validated “XCredit”, or Experience Credit, which signals to […]
SOLID (Solutions for Information Design), LLC
Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL)
AFL-CIO Working for America Institute (WAI)
Southeast Michigan Community Alliance
CVS Health
American Council on Education (ACE)
Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) & SHRM Foundation
Workday
Education Finance Council (EFC)
Opportunity@Work
Open Skills Network
Credential Registry
Prior Learning Assessment, Credit for Prior Learning, Recognition of Prior Learning
HR Open Standards Consortium
Competency Models, Skills Models & Learning Frameworks
Apprenticeship / Apprenticeships
Adult Learners: Second-chance Options, Accelerated Options
Military Crosswalks & Credentialing
Key Communications Organizations Informing the Public
Open Skills Network (OSN) – Western Governors University
Overview The Open Skills Network (OSN) is a coalition of employers, education providers, policymakers, military, nonprofit organizations, and other stakeholders dedicated to advancing skills-based education and hiring. The OSN aims […]
Learn & Work Ecosystem Library
Overview Accurate and timely information about developments in the learn-and-work ecosystem are essential for those working to improve the ecosystem. Yet information is too often siloed and difficult to access […]
Credential As You Go
Overview The Credential As You Go initiative focuses on building an incremental credentialing system, recognizing the value in many types of quality credentials, including degrees, certificates, industry certifications, licenses, badges, […]
C-BEN’s Interoperability Principles Project
Overview States, institutions, employers, and even federal agencies have a new vision, where individuals can seamlessly share their learning and employment data by using Learning and Employment Records (LERs). Driven […]
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 […]
SkillsEngine – Texas State Technical College (TSTC)
Overview SkillsEngine is a technology innovation team based in Austin, Texas. The team builds data-driven solutions to connect the worlds of learning and work through a unified skills language. Its […]
Solutions for Information Design (SOLID) for Military Populations
Overview Solutions for Information Design, LLC (SOLID) is an intermediary that works to enhance the nation’s military and civilian workforce by strengthening career pathways, guiding skill attainment, and improving communication of […]
Unmudl Skills-to-Jobs Marketplace
Overview The Unmudl Skills-to-JobsTM Marketplace connects learners with new or better jobs, college and continuing education credits, and credentials—from certificates to certifications and degrees. Unmudl.com was released publicly in November […]