Dynamic Content Index for Topics, Initiatives, Organizations, and Glossary Terms
Topics (95)
Important subjects or themes which define and describe the learn-and-work ecosystem
- Academic Advising
- Accreditation
- Adult Learners: Second-chance Options, Accelerated Options
- Alternative Credentials
- Apprenticeship
- Articulation / Transfer
- Auto-award (Automatic)
- Automated Screening for Hiring Processes / Applicant Tracking System
- Badge Backpack
- Badge, Skills Badge, Open Badge, Competency Badge
- Blockchain
- Career Coaches, Career Coaching
- Career Pathways
- Certificate
- Certification
- Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP)
- College Education in Prisons
- Common Job Descriptions; Job Postings in Language of Competencies/skills
- Community College Baccalaureate Degrees (CCB)
- Competency Models, Skills Models & Learning Frameworks
- Competency-Based Education (CBE)
- Concurrent / Dual Enrollment
- Credential Engine
- Credential Registry
- Credential Transparency Description Language
- Credentials
- Credentials For Young Adults
- Credit Interoperability
- Credit Pathways, Noncredit-to-Credit Articulation
- Degree
- Digital Credential Ecosystem / Marketplace
- Digital Credentials
- Digital Equity
- Digital Platforms
- Directory of International Quality Assurance Bodies, Accreditation Bodies & Ministries of Education
- Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI)
- Eligible Training Provider List (ETPL)
- Employer Partnerships With Education Providers
- Employer Training & Credentialing
- Employer Tuition Assistance Program / Employee Tuition Reimbursement – Finance
- Enrollment and Completion Databases
- Foundations
- Fraudulent Credentials
- Frontloaded Embedded Non-degree Pathways
- Funding Models – Organizations, Institutions
- Goodwill Career Centers
- GradPLUS loans / Finance Option
- Graduate/Professional Education in the Learn-and-Work Ecosystem
- Guided Pathways
- HR Open Standards Consortium
- Importance of Search Engines in Learn-and-Work Ecosystem
- Income Sharing Agreements (ISA)
- Incremental Credential / Incremental Credentialing System / Incremental Credentialing Framework
- Innovation Networks / Alliances
- Institute for Credentialing Excellence – Serving Certification/Certificate Industry
- Institutional Accrediting Agencies in Higher Education
- Interstate Regional Compacts in Higher Education
- Key Communications Organizations Informing the Public
- Licensing & Licensing Boards
- Marketing
- Mentorships / Mentors
- Microcredential
- Military Crosswalks & Credentialing
- Modular Learning
- National Accrediting Organizations (Programs) & Specialized Accreditors In Higher Education
- New Finance Options: Interest-free Loans & Outcomes-based Loans
- Non-degree Credentials
- Older Workers in the Workforce
- Open Competency Framework Collaborative Network (OCF Collab)
- Open Educational Resources (OER)
- ParentPLUS Loans / Finance Option
- Pell, Short Term Pell, Workforce Pell – Finance
- Policy & Practice Research: Workforce education, CBE, Career Navigation, Performance/Accountability, Student Transfer
- Prior Learning Assessment, Credit for Prior Learning, Recognition of Prior Learning
- Prisons As Credential Provider – Correctional Education
- Qualifications Frameworks (QFs)
- Quality Assurance, Compliance & International Standards that Impact Companies
- Quality Non-degree Credential
- Remedial Education in Postsecondary Education
- Reverse Transfer / Reverse Transfer Associate Degrees
- Short-term Credentials, Short-term Training
- Skilled Trades
- Skills Profiling / Skills Profile
- Skills Vs. Competencies
- Skills-based Hiring
- Social Capital
- Stackable Credentials
- Student Financial Aid Models – Finance
- T3 Innovation Network – T3 Network Resource Hub
- Talent Hubs
- Technology Systems & Tools in Learn-and-Work Ecosystem
- Three-year degree programs (Accelerated or Fast Track Degree Programs) – Finance Option
- Unions
- Work Colleges
- Workforce Certificates, Certifications, Occupational Certifications, Occupational Licenses
Initiatives (319)
Key projects working to improve the learn-and-work ecosystem
- 1EdTech Open Badges Standard
- 1EdTech’s Digital Credentials Learn & Lead Roundtables
- 2nd Chances@Work Initiative – Orijin
- 2U / edX Bootcamp Partnership
- AACRAO Alternative Credentials Initiative / Report
- AACRAO Credit Mobility Initiative
- AACRAO Digital Interoperability Initiative
- Accelerate ED
- Accelerating Opportunity: Kansas
- Access in Prison Initiative – JSTOR
- Adult Learner Centered and Equity Framework (ALCEF) in a SNAP Network — CAEL
- Adult Learning & Literacy Network (ALL IN)
- ADVANCE Integrated Education and Training (IET)
- Advancing Equity and Upward Mobility through Community College-Employer Partnerships (ACE-UP)
- AI Education Policy & Practice Ecosystem Framework – WCET
- AI Incubator Network
- Alabama Partnership with Credential Engine
- Alabama Talent Triad
- Alternative Credentials: Considerations, Guidance, and Best Practices
- America Achieve’s Broadband Initiative
- American Opportunity Index
- Apprenticeship Accelerator Initiative
- Apprenticeships for America Initiative
- Artificial Intelligence Incubator Network – AACC
- ASU Pocket
- BACK TO WORK 50+ Helping Older Adults with Job Training (AARP)
- Bendable (Library Lifelong Learning Platform)
- Beyond Transfer Policy Advisory Board (PAB)
- Binary Accreditation System in India – National Assessment and Accreditation Council
- Blueprint for Maryland’s Future – Accountability & Implementation Board
- Bridging the Gap—A State Leader’s Guide to Implementing Summer Bridge Programs (Education Strategy Group)
- Bridging the Skills Gap: The Promise of Learning and Employment Records – ACE
- Building Capacity, Expanding Pathways: Accelerating the Growth of Credential Innovation in Higher Education – UPCEA
- Building Rural Innovation, Designing Educational Strategies (BRIDGES) & The Rural College Practitioner Design & Data Academies
- BuildWithin: Software Platform in Apprenticeships
- Business Leaders United for Workforce Partnerships – BLU
- C-BEN Report: Interoperable Learning & Employment Records – Where knowledge and skills are transparent, accessible and easily shared
- C-BEN’s Employer Engagement Best Practices Guide
- C-BEN’s Interoperability Principles Project
- C-BEN’s Postsecondary Competency-Based Education Program Model Map Framework
- C-BEN’s Quality Framework
- California Reconnect
- Career Connect Washington (CCW) – Washington
- Career Connected High School Grant Program
- Career Development Incentive Program (CDIP) or Career Development Success Program – Colorado
- Career Optimism Index® – University of Phoenix
- Career Pathways in the Workforce Intelligence Network (WIN) – Michigan
- CareerNavGPT – SkillUp Coalition
- Casa Latina – Online Bilingual Program (Davenport University)
- CASE Network: Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange® (CASE®) – 1EdTech Consortium
- Catalyze Registry
- Catalyzing Transfer Initiative (CTI)
- Cedefop’s Microcredentials & Labor Market Research
- Center for Artificial Intelligence & the Future of Work – Jobs for the Future
- Center for Justice & Economic Advancement — Jobs for the Future
- Center for Skills by C-BEN
- Center for Skills Validation – Education Design Lab
- Center on Education & Labor — New America
- Central Ohio Talent Network – SkillsFWD
- Centralized DEI (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion) Education Research Platform
- Certification-degree Pathways Project
- Certification+Degree Pathways in Support of First-generation, Low-income and Adult Learners
- College Credit for Military Experience – North Carolina Military Equivalency System
- College Excellence Program — The Aspen Institute
- College Unbound’s Learning in Public Project
- Colorado’s Advancing Individual Ownership of Assets and Career Determination Initiative
- ColoradoFWD
- Competency Model Clearinghouse, US Department of Labor
- Complete College Accelerator – Complete College America (CCA)
- Comprehensive Learner Record (CLR) Standard — 1EdTech Consortium
- Comprehensive Learner Records Standard Working Group
- Course+Badge Initiative
- Coursera Partnership with Center for Workforce Inclusion – Empowering Older Adults with Essential Skills Training
- Credential As You Go
- Credential Chats – AACRAO
- Credential Engine Learning and Employment Records Action Guide
- Credential Integrity Action Alliance (CIAA)
- Credential Lab Service & Innovation Center – Higher Learning Commission
- Credential Maturity Index – UPCEA
- Credentialing: Policy & Implementation – Colorado
- Credentialing: Policy & Implementation – Florida
- Credentials for the Future Initiative – University of Texas System
- Credentials Future Consortium (CFC)
- Credentials Matter
- Credentials to Employment: The Last Mile Report – Digital Credentials Consortium
- Credit When It’s Due (CWID) – Reverse Transfer
- CTE Leadership Collaborative
- CTE Without Borders Policy Playbook (Career & Technical Education)
- Data Analytics for Student Success, Institutional Efficiencies, and Integration – Midwestern Higher Education Compact & SAS Institute, Inc.
- Data Collaborative for a Skills-based Economy (Data Collab) – Education Design Lab
- Degrees When Due (DWD)
- Delivering on the Degree: The College-to-Jobs Playbook
- Demonstrate Value through Linking Data – Workcred
- Dictionary: Definitions, Use of Key Terms & Concepts in Incremental Credentialing
- Digital Learner Records – Comprehensive Learner Records
- Digital Skills & Knowledge Concepts Labelling Initiative – European Classification of Occupations, Skills & Competences (ESCO)
- Digital Skills Principles – Digital Divide
- Digital-Reskilling at Universities (D-Reskill Project)
- Durable Skills Advantage Framework
- Education and Career Navigation Framework – ACT
- Education Policy Program — New America
- Education Quality Outcomes Standards (EQOS) (EQOS Framework)
- EDUCAUSE Microcredentialing
- Employability Skills Bundle Project
- Equity in Digital Learning Student Survey – Every Learner Everywhere
- Essential Learning Outcomes Framework — AAC&U
- European Battery Alliance / European Battery Alliance Academy (Industry Sector Initiative)
- European Blockchain Partnership (EBP)
- European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS)
- European Year of Skills
- Every Learner Everywhere
- Examining the Return on Investment of Manufacturing Credentials (Workcred research)
- Expanding the Learner Record: XLR Project
- Experience You: Bring Your Past Forward – LERs
- Federal Youth Apprentice Pathway Program (U.S. Department of Labor’s ETA)
- Florida Ready to Work – Assessments & Courseware
- Forming STARS — Wisconsin
- Forum for Community Solutions — The Aspen Institute
- Framework Report: Integrating Microcredentials into Undergraduate Experiences – UT System & Workcred
- Frontier Set
- Global Alliance for Skills to Aid Economic Renaissance and Labor Market Transitions
- Global Micro-Credential Schema Mapping Project – Credential Engine
- Good Jobs Hawai’i Initiative
- Graduate-Level Microcredentials & Workforce Needs – Council of Graduate Schools
- Guide: The 6 Anchors of Student Retention – Proven Strategies for Long-Term Student Success & Engagement in Adult Education
- Hallmarks of Excellence in Credential Innovation – UPCEA
- HBCUv
- Healthcare-Focused High Schools – Bloomberg Philanthropies
- IDB Digital Credential Framework (Inter-American Development Bank)
- Improving Economic Mobility for Adult Learners Initiative – Achieving the Dream & Jobs for the Future
- Inaugural Equity Toolkit for Community Colleges – Achieving the Dream
- Indiana Model Credit for Prior Learning Policy Guidance
- Industry Certification Education & Performance Data System Initiative
- Industry Credentials & Education Performance Data System
- Industry Credentials Initiative
- Initiative to Update Carnegie Classifications – ACE & Carnegie Foundation
- Interstate Passport® (Transfer)
- Inventory of Community College Baccalaureate-Degree Programs
- Job & Skill Trends Tool – EUROPASS & ESCO
- Job Quality Initiative – Aspen Institute’s EOP & U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation
- Job Quality Measurement Initiative & Good Jobs Initiative – U.S. Department of Labor Collaborative
- Job Skills for In-Demand Employment (JobSIDE)
- Jobs and Employment Data Exchange (JEDx)
- Just Equations
- Justice and Mobility Fund — Blue Meridian Partners
- Kentucky Chamber Workforce Center (KCWC) – Kentucky Chamber Foundation
- Knowledge Center, National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students (NISTS)
- Launch: Equitable & Accelerated Pathways for All – Education Strategy Group
- Learn & Work Ecosystem Library
- Learning & Employment Records (LER) Postsecondary Accelerator Initiative
- Learning and Employment Record – WGU & Indiana Achievement Wallet
- Learning Evaluation & Recognition for the Next Generation (LEARN) Commission – AACRAO & SOVA
- LER Ecosystem Map (Learning & Employment Records)
- Lessons Learned from Launching a Micro-credential Program, Kennesaw State University
- LifeJourney – AI-Powered Skills & Competency Toolkit
- Linked, Open Languages/schemas (CTDL & CTDL-ASN)
- Mapping Learning & Employment Records (LERs)
- Mapping Upward Project – OCTAE
- MERLOT – Multimedia Education Resource for Learning & Online Teaching
- Micro-Pathway Design Initiative
- Micro-pathways – Community College Growth Engine Fund (Education Design Lab)
- Microcredential Initiative – State University System of New York (SUNY)
- Microcredential Pathways in Behavioral Health – Colorado
- Microcredentials for Teacher Education – State Developments & Digital Promise
- Microcredentials Pilot in Higher Education — Australian Government Department of Education
- Microcredentials: Montana ‘Year to Career’ Initiative to Create Microcredential Job Pathways
- MicroCreds National Project (Ireland)
- Midwest Credential Transparency Alliance (MCTA)
- Multiple Pathways Initiative – MPI (Business Roundtable)
- National Accreditation Commission (NAC)
- National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ) – Ireland
- National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity — National Institute for Standards & Technology (NIST)
- National Labor Exchange (NLx – Jobs Platform) – National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA)
- National Pathways Initiative
- Navajo Nation Talent Marketplace
- Navigating Public Job Training (Research Report from Harvard Project on Workforce)
- New Jersey Pathways to Career Opportunities Initiative
- NewPathways Campaign (K-12) – Getting Smart
- Non-Degree Credentials Research Network (NCRN)
- Noncredit and Credit Alignment Lab (NCAL)
- Noncredit Mobility Academy
- Noncredit Research Collaborative
- North Dakota Digital Credential Publishing Application – State of North Dakota
- North Dakota Partnership with Credential Engine
- NOVA Workforce
- OneTen
- Open Data Platform – U.S. Department of Education
- Open Skills Network (OSN)
- Open Syllabus
- OpenStax (Open Educational Resources)
- Outcomes for Opportunity (O4O)
- Partnership between Maryland State Corrections & University System of Maryland
- Partnership to Advance Edtech Ecosystem – 1EdTech & Digital Promise
- Pathways to Credentials – CTE Technical Assistance (US Department of Education)
- PLA Inside Out: An International Journal on Theory, Research and Practice in Prior Learning Assessment
- Playbook – Initiative of League for Innovation in the Community College
- Playbook: Building Incremental Credentials (Credential As You Go)
- Playbook: Communications & Marketing Strategy / Planning (Credential As You Go)
- Playbook: Embedding and Aligning Certifications with Academic Programs (Credential As You Go)
- Playbook: Incremental Credentialing at the Graduate Level (Credential As You Go)
- Playbook: Incremental Credentialing Framework (Credential As You Go)
- Playbook: Learner Supports (Credential As You Go)
- Playbook: Making the Case (Credential As You Go)
- Playbook: Policy in Incremental Credentialing (Credential As You Go)
- Playbook: Providing Access to All Learners (Credential As You Go)
- Playbook: Quality, Trust & Value of Incremental Credentials (Credential As You Go)
- Playbook: Technology-Integrated Credential Management (Credential As You Go)
- Postsecondary State Network — Jobs for the Future
- Postsecondary Value Framework – Postsecondary Value Commission
- Project Unicorn (Data Interoperability in K-12 Education)
- Promising Practices Database: Community College Baccalaureate Degrees
- Propel Polk! Credentialing 21st Century Skills for Postsecondary Success
- Quality and In-Demand Non-Degree Credentials Framework – Colorado
- Quality Assurance in Microcredentials – European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA)
- Quality Assurance Standards for Microcredentials – from Microcredentials Partnership of States (MPOS)
- Racial Equity for Adult Credentials In Higher Education (REACH) Collaborative
- Raise the Bar: Unlocking Career Success, USDOE
- Rasmussen University Phase 1 Comprehensive Learning Record Project
- Recommended LER Technical and Functional Requirements — Velocity Network Foundation
- Recover Stronger
- Reentry 2030
- Research Blog: Assessment and evaluation of microcredentials: What success looks like and to whom
- Research on Work-Based Learning – Studying Coursetaking & Post-Degree Earnings Among Completers
- Research Report: Credentials-to-Jobs Misalignment
- Research: A Typology and Policy Landscape Analysis of State Investments in Short Term Credential Pathways
- Research: National Study of Workplace Equity
- Research: State Practices Around Industry Certification (EERC Rutgers University)
- Research: Unlocking Economic Prosperity – Career Navigation in a Time of Rapid Change
- ResearchDataGov (RDG)
- Resource Community for Higher Education in Prison (RCHEP) — Alliance for Higher Education in Prison
- Rework America Alliance
- Rich Skills Descriptor’s open RSD – Edalex
- Rising Up Through Stronger & More Equitable Transfer: Tracking Transfer & Transfer Playbook 2.0 — The Aspen Institute, CCRC
- Scaling Digital Credentials with Community College Systems to Empower Underserved Adult Learners
- Scaling the Skills-Based Workforce System in Connecticut (CT)
- Scaling Up College Completion Efforts for Student Success (SUCCESS)
- Seal of Excelencia Framework – Institution Certification to Serve Latino Students
- Second Chance Business Coalition (Employment/Advancement for People with Criminal Records)
- SHEEO Research Survey: State Priorities for Higher Education in 2023
- Short-Term-Credential Typology (HCM Strategists)
- Skillful
- Skills Compass Platform – CAEL
- Skills Taxonomy (Open Skills) – Lightcast
- Skills-Based Talent Ecosystem – ETS & SHRM
- Skills-First Center of Excellence – SHRM Foundation
- SkillsEngine
- SkillsFWD
- SkyHive® Platform
- SmartReport Ecosystem Map
- SmartResume (Digital Wallet)
- SNHU 2025
- Solutions for Information Design (SOLID) for Military Populations
- Some College, No Credential Student Outcomes: Annual Progress Report – National Student Clearinghouse
- Stackability Guide
- STARS – Skilled Through Alternative Routes – Opportunity@Work
- State Authorization Network (SAN)
- State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement (SARA)
- State of Washington’s Career Bridge
- State Opportunity Index – Strada Education Foundation
- State Skills-Based Hiring in the Public Sector – NGA
- State Skills-Driven State Community of Practice Initiative (NGA)
- State-by State Analysis of High School Work-based Learning Policies – American Student Assistance & Bellwether Education Partners
- STEM Talent Challenge – EDA
- STEM Transfer Partnership (STP) – State of Washington
- Strong Foundations Survey + State Postsecondary Data & Communities of Practice – SHEEO
- Stronger Nation Report – Lumina Foundation
- Student Success Center Network — Jobs for the Future
- Student Worker Employment for Skills-Based Success – ASU
- Success, Redefined: How Nondegree Pathways Empower Youth to Chart Their Own Course to Confidence, Employability, and Financial Freedom – Research Study
- T-Profile Builder (Education Design Lab)
- Talent Pipeline Management Initiative – TPM
- Teacher Occupation Apprenticeship Program – Tennessee
- Temple University’s Comprehensive Learner Record Initiative
- Tennessee Board of Regents’ Comprehensive Learner Record Initiative
- Territorium’s LifeJourney Toolkit
- Texas Policy on Community College Finance – Performance Funding (HB 8)
- The Big 10 Leadership & Change Competencies
- The Brookings Institution’s Earn-and-Learn Project
- The Definitive Micro-credential Glossary of Terms
- The Education Blockchain Initiative
- The EdUp Experience Podcast Network
- The Good Jobs Project
- The Great Admissions Redesign – Lumina Foundation
- The HR Open Standards Resume/CV Project
- The Learner Credential Wallet
- The Manufacturing Readiness Project – SOLID LLC
- The MICROBOL Project
- The National Career Clusters® Framework – Advance CTE
- The Power of Systems Initiative – NASH
- The Reach Method – Apprenticeship Teaching Degrees – Reach University
- The State of Digital Credentials 2022 Guide (Accredible)
- The Workforce Almanac
- The Workforce Futures Initiative
- Toolkit: Solving Today’s Students’ Food, Housing, And Basic Needs Insecurities – A Basic Needs Policy Toolkit For Today’s Students To Succeed (Higher Learning Advocates)
- Tools & Regulations Impacting College Selection Processes – U.S. Department of Education
- Training Older, Lower-Income Adults in Digital Skills for Economic Security – AARP Foundation/ Older Adults Technology Services
- TrustEd Microcredential Coalition — 1EdTech Consortium
- Understanding the Landscape of Industry Certifications
- Unified Credential Framework (UCF)
- United States Qualification Framework (USQF)
- Universal Credit Transfer Explorer
- Universal European Degree – European Union
- Unmudl Skills-to-Jobs Marketplace
- Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education (VALUE) — AAC&U
- Validated Skills – Accelerate Montana
- Value Data Collaborative (VDC)
- Wellspring Initiative from 1EdTech Foundation, Phase 1 & 2
- WIOA Workforce Programs
- Work+ and Work+Collective – Consortium managed by Arizona State University
- Workforce Compass
- Workforce Development, Training & Education Support Via Federal-Aid Highway Program Formula Funds in States
- Workforce Equity Dashboard & Advancing Workforce Equity Guide (National Fund for Workforce Solutions)
- Workforce of the Future Playbook – Federal Government
- Workforce Partnership Initiative – Business Higher Education Forum & Business Roundtable
- Workforce Training Partnerships, Good Jobs Challenge, US Department of Commerce
- XCredit Skills Validation – Education Design Lab
- Year to Career Through Micro-Pathways (Year to Career)
- Young Adult Talent Development Network
- Z-Degree Initiatives
Organizations (283)
Alliances and intermediary organizations working to improve the learn-and-work ecosystem
- 1EdTech Consortium
- AARP Foundation
- Accelerate Montana
- Accredible (digital badge & certificate platform)
- Achieving the Dream (ATD)
- ACT
- Advance CTE
- Advisera
- AFL-CIO Working for America Institute (WAI)
- African American Mayors Association (AAMA)
- Albert Shanker Institute
- Alliance for Excellent Education (All4Ed)
- America Achieves
- American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)
- American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO)
- American Association of State Colleges & Universities (AASCU)
- American Council on Education (ACE)
- American Dental Education Association (ADEA)
- American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)
- American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC)
- American Institutes for Research (AIR)
- American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
- American Student Assistance (ASA)
- Annie E. Casey Foundation
- Apprenticeships for America (AFA)
- Ascendium Education Philanthropy (AEP)
- Aspire Ability
- Association for Talent Development (ATD)
- Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)
- Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU)
- AstrumU
- Baptist Health Kentucky
- Basta
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Bitwise Industries
- Blockframe
- Bloomberg Philanthropies
- Boeing
- Brighthive
- Brookings Institution
- Burning Glass Institute
- Business Leaders United for Workforce Partnerships (BLU)
- Business Roundtable (BRT)
- Business-Higher Education Forum (BHEF)
- CanCred by Learning Agents
- Candid
- Canvas Credentials – Instructure Community
- CareerEdge Funders Collaborative
- Cedefop
- Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO)
- Center for Equity and Postsecondary Attainment (CEPA), San Diego State University
- Center for Postsecondary Readiness and Success (CPRS) – American University
- Center for the Future of Higher Education & Talent Strategy, Northeastern University
- Chamber of Commerce of Greater Philadelphia
- Charles Koch Foundation
- Chicanos Por La Causa (CPLC)
- Clayton Christensen Institute
- Coalition for Career Development Center (CCD)
- Cognizant Foundation
- College in High School Alliance (CHSA)
- Colorado Workforce Development Council (CWDC)
- Community College Baccalaureate Association (CCBA)
- Community College Research Center (CCRC)
- Competency-based Education Network (C-BEN)
- Complete College America
- Connecticut Office of Workforce Strategy
- Corporation for a Skilled Workforce (CSW)
- Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL)
- Council for the Study of Community Colleges (CSCC)
- Council of Graduate Schools (CGS)
- Coursera Inc.
- Credential Engine
- Credly
- CVS Health
- Data for the American Dream (D4AD)
- Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF)
- Desire 2 Learn (D2L)
- Digital Credentials Consortium (DCC)
- Digital Learning Collaborative (DLC)
- Digital Promise
- Dignity Health
- Diversity for Social Impact
- DVP-PRAXIS LTD
- E3 Alliance
- EAB (formerly Education Advisory Board)
- eAlliance
- ECMC Foundation
- Ed2Work
- Edalex
- Education & Employment Research Center, School of Management & Labor Relations, Rutgers
- Education Commission of the States (ECS)
- Education Design Lab (the Lab)
- Education Exchange
- Education Finance Council (EFC)
- Education Quality Outcomes Standards Board (EQOS)
- Education Strategy Group (ESG)
- Education Trust
- Educational Testing Service (ETS)
- EDUCAUSE
- Employment & Training Administration, USDOL
- Esperanza Education Fund
- Essential Education
- European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA)
- European Union (EU)
- Excelencia in Education
- Federation for Advanced Manufacturing Education (FAME) USA
- Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREOPP)
- FourPoint Education Partners
- Frontier Set
- Futuro Health
- Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education
- George Washington Institute on Public Policy (GWIPP), George Washington University
- Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW)
- Getting Smart
- GitLab Foundation
- Goodwill
- Goodwill-Easter Seals Minnesota (GESMN)
- Great Lakes Community Action Partnership
- Greater Houston Partnership
- Greater Phoenix Chamber Foundation
- Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce
- Groningen Declaration Network (GDN)
- Guild
- Harvard Project on Workforce
- HCM Strategists (HCM)
- Health Level Seven International (HL7 International)
- Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO)
- Higher Learning Advocates (HLA)
- HR Open Standards Consortium
- Hunt Institute
- IBM
- idatafy
- IdRamp
- Indiana Governor’s Workforce Cabinet
- Indigo Education Company
- Inside Track
- Instant Teams
- Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)
- Instructure
- Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
- International Council on Badges and Credentials (ICoBC)
- International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
- IQ4 Corporation
- Irvine Foundation
- It’s Not Complicated Education (INC Education)
- Jobs & Skills Australia
- Jobs for the Future (JFF)
- Jobspeaker
- John M. Belk Endowment
- Joint Center for Political & Economic Studies
- JPMorgan Chase & Co
- Junior Achievement USA / Junior Achievement Worldwide (JA)
- Kresge Foundation
- League for the Innovation of Community Colleges
- Learning Economy Foundation (LEF)
- Lightcast (formerly Emsi Burning Glass)
- Local Initiatives Support Corporation
- Lumina Foundation
- Mastery Transcript Consortium® (MTC)
- McKinsey & Company
- MDRC
- MedCerts
- Micro-credential Multiverse
- Microcredentials Partnership of States (MPOS) – DigiLEARN (Digital Learning Institute)
- Microsoft Education
- Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC)
- Moz (SEOMoz)
- Muzzy Lane
- National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP)
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
- National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE)
- National Association of Higher Education Systems (NASH)
- National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU)
- National Association of Manufacturing (NAM)
- National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA)
- National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA)
- National Association of Workforce Boards (NAWB)
- National Career Development Association (NCDA)
- National Center for Higher Educational Management Services (NCHEMS)
- National College Credit Recommendation Service (NCCRS)
- National College Transition Network (NCTN ) – World Education
- National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA)
- National Council of State Legislatures (NCSL)
- National Council on Aging (NCOA)
- National Early Care & Education Workforce Center (ECE Workforce Center)
- National Fund for Workforce Solutions
- National Governors Association (NGA)
- National Institute for Staff & Organizational Development (NISOD)
- National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students (NISTS)
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), U.S. Department of Commerce
- National Partnership for Women & Families
- National Skills Coalition (NSC)
- National Student Clearinghouse (NSC)
- National Urban League (NUL)
- NationSwell
- New America
- New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE)
- New Opportunities Vision and Achievement of Northeast Louisiana (NOVA NELA)
- New Profit
- North East Community Action Corporation
- Office of Career, Technical & Adult Education, USDOE
- Office of Community College Research and Leadership (OCCRL)
- Open Skills Network
- OpenAI
- Opportunity Nation
- Opportunity@Work
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- Orijin
- Pairin
- Parchment & Digitary
- PathStone
- Patrick J. McGovern Foundation (PMJF)
- People Inc.
- Philadelphia Youth Network
- Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council (PESC)
- Postsecondary National Policy Institute (PNPI)
- Postsecondary Value Commission
- Program on Skills, Credentials & Workforce Policy (PSCWP), George Washington University
- Public Consulting Group
- Rand Corporation
- RANDA Solutions
- ReUp Education
- Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
- Rural Local Initiatives Support Corporation
- San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation
- SAP Training & Adoption
- Schmidt Futures
- Siegel Family Endowment
- Skillpoint Alliance
- SkillPointe
- Skills Enhancement Program – CAP Services
- SkillsCommons Repository
- SkillUp Coalition
- Social Finance
- Society for Human Resource Manager (SHRM)
- SOLID (Solutions for Information Design), LLC
- Southeast Michigan Community Alliance
- Southern Regional Education Board (SREB)
- Sovrin
- SRI International
- Stand Together
- State Business Executives (SBE)
- State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO)
- State University System of New York – SUNY
- Steppingblocks
- Strada Education Foundation
- T3 Innovation Network
- Territorium
- The Aspen Institute
- The Coalition on Adult Basic Education (COABE)
- The Hope Center for Student Basic Needs (Temple University)
- The Institute for College Access & Success (TICAS)
- Third Way
- Trust ver IP Foundation
- Trusted Learner Network (TLN)
- U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA)
- UnidosUS
- United Negro College Fund (UNCF)
- University Innovation Alliance
- University Instructors
- University of Texas System & Credential Initiatives
- UPCEA
- Upwardly Global
- Urban Institute
- US Chamber of Commerce Foundation
- US Department of Education Blockchain Action Network
- Velocity Network Foundation
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- Walmart Foundation / Walmart
- WestEd
- Western Governors University (WGU)
- Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE)
- WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies (WCET)
- Wipfli
- Workcred
- Workday
- Workforce Development Board of Central Ohio (WDBCO)
- Workforce Matters
- WorkingNation
- WorkRise
- Yellowdig
- Young Invincibles (YI)
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Curated list of terms and definitions, focusing on important subjects or themes that define and describe the learn-and-work ecosystem
- Academic advising
- Accreditation
- Achievement Wallet
- Adult Education
- Adult Learners
- Advanced Placement (AP)
- Alternative Credential Platforms
- Alternative Credentials
- Alternative Provider
- Applicant Tracking System (ATS)
- Application Programming Interface (API)
- Applied Liberal Arts
- Apprenticeship Intermediary
- Apprenticeships
- Articulated Credit / Articulated College Credit
- Articulation / Transfer
- Artificial intelligence (AI), Generative AI, & AI Prompts
- Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-serving Institution (AANAPISI)
- Assertion
- Assessment
- Assessment in Badging
- Asylum Seeker
- Auto-award
- Badge Baking
- Badge, Skills Badge, Open Badge, Competency Badge
- Blockchain
- Blue Economy
- Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES)
- Bologna Process
- Boot Camp
- Career and Technical Education (CTE)
- Career Coaches
- Career Counselors
- Career Navigation
- Career Networking (Job Seeking through Networking)
- Career-Connected Learning (CCL)
- Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education®
- CASE Network: Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange® (CASE®)
- Causal Research
- Certificate
- Certification/ Industry Certification
- Challenge Exams
- Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP)
- Common Job Description
- Community College Baccalaureate
- Community of Practice (COP)
- Compensation
- Competency
- Competency Framework & Competency Model
- Competency-based Education (CBE)
- Competency-based programs
- Competitive Integrated Employment (CIE) & Office of Employment Disability Policy (ODEP)
- Comprehensive Learner Records (CLRs)
- Concept Map
- Concurrent Enrollment (Dual Enrollment)
- Course Articulation
- Credential
- Credential As You Go
- Credential Management System (CMS)
- Credential Registry
- Credential Transparency Description Language (CTDL)
- Credit Evaluation
- Credit for Prior Learning
- Credit Mobility
- Credit Pathways, Noncredit-to-Credit Articulation
- Credit Transfer: Credit by Exam, College-Level Examination Program® (CLEP), Course Review/Recommendations
- Crosswalks
- Culture Add
- Culture Fit
- DACA – Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
- Data Literacy / Data Science
- Decentralized Web / Internet
- Degree
- Degree Discrimination
- Degree Qualifications Profile (DQP)
- Design Thinking
- Digital badge
- Digital Credential Ecosystem / Marketplace
- Digital Equity
- Digital Platforms/Platforms
- Digital Skills
- Diploma Supplement
- Direct Admission
- Disability Philanthropy
- Disability Workforce Providers
- Disruptive Innovation
- Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI)
- Durable Skills
- Early College High Schools
- Edge Computing
- Eligible Training Provider Lists (ETPLs)
- Eligible Training Provider Program
- Emerging Occupations
- Employability Skills Framework
- Employee Assessment Tools
- Employer orientation and onboarding
- Employer Tuition Assistance Program / Employee Tuition Reimbursement – Finance
- Equity, equality
- Essential Learning Outcomes (ELOs)
- Ethical Standards/Integrity in Credentialing
- Europass
- Family-sustaining Wage
- File Formats
- First-Generation Students
- First-year Success
- Flextirement
- Flipped classroom
- For-Profit / Proprietary Institutions
- Fraudulent Credentials
- Free Application for Federal Student Aid – FAFSA
- Frontloaded Embedded Non-Degree Pathways
- Funding Models for Public Two & Four-Year Institutions (Finance)
- Future of Work
- Gainful Employment
- Gainful Employment Rule
- Gateway Course
- GED – General Educational Development Test
- Generative AI (Artificial Intelligence)
- Gig Economy
- Gig Workers
- Good Jobs
- GRADPlus Loans
- Graduate & Professional Education
- Grant
- Green Economy
- Guaranteed Admission
- Guided pathways
- Higher Education & Employer Partnerships
- Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI)
- Historically Black College & University (HCBU)
- Human Capability Framework (HCF)
- Immigrant-Origin Students
- Improvement Science
- Income-Sharing Agreement (ISA)
- Incremental credential
- Incremental credentialing
- Incremental Credentialing Framework
- Industry / Industry Sector
- Industry Certification / Professional Certification
- Integrated Credential Management System
- Interest Free (Zero-Interest) Loans
- Intergenerational Poverty
- Intergenerational Well-Being
- Intermediaries
- Internally Displaced Person (IDP)
- International Classification for Standards (ICS)
- International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
- International Students
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- Interoperability
- Interstate Regional Higher Education Compacts
- Job Aggregators
- Job Board / Platform
- Job Structures
- Knowledge Graph / Google Knowledge Graph
- Learn-and-Work Ecosystem
- Learner
- Learner (Student) Success
- Learner (Student) Supports
- Learner Credential Wallet
- Learning and Employment Records (LERs)
- Learning Certified Pathway
- Learning Frameworks
- Learning Mobility
- Learning Mobility Targets
- Learning Mobility—in Europe
- Learning Mobility—in the United States
- Learning Outcomes
- Learning Pathway
- Legacy Admissions
- License
- Lightcast Skills Taxonomy
- Linked Learning
- Linked Learning Pathway
- Marketing Communications (Marcomm)
- Micro-pathway
- Microcredentials
- Microschool
- Middle Skills Jobs / Middle Skills Credentials
- Mind Map
- Minority-Serving Institutions (MSI)
- Mixed Methods Research
- Modular Learning
- NACE (National Association of Colleges and Employers) Competencies
- Net Price Calculators
- Neurodiverse Learners / Neurodiversity
- New Multiversity
- Ninety-Ten Rule (90/10)
- Non-Compete Clause
- Non-degree Credentials
- Noncredit Education
- Noncredit Mobility
- Noncredit to Credit Bridges
- North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS)
- O*NET
- Occupational Segregation
- Occupational Skills Profile
- Older Workers
- Open Assessment
- Open Badges
- Open Badges Infrastructure (OBI)
- Open Badges Standard
- Open Data
- Open Data Standard
- Open Educational Resources (OER)
- Open Science Principles
- Open Standards Principles
- Operational requirements
- Opportunity Populations
- Opportunity Youth
- Outcomes-based Loans
- ParentPLUS Loans
- Pathways Schools
- Pay for Skills Programs
- Pay Transparency
- Pell Grant
- Policy
- Pooled Hiring
- Prison Education
- Qualifications Frameworks (QFs)
- Quality Assurance
- Quality Non-Degree Credential
- Recognition/Reputation in Credentialing
- Refugee
- Refugee & Asylee Programs
- Registered Apprenticeship Intermediary
- Relational Mapping / Relational Map
- Relevance/Currency in Credentialing
- Remedial Education (Developmental Education)
- Reskill
- Return on Investment (ROI) in Higher Education
- Reverse Transfer
- Rich Skills Descriptors (RSDs)
- Rural Area & Rural Serving Institution (RSI)
- Search Engine
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO) / Key Word Optimization
- Second Chance Employment
- Second-year Persistence
- Self-Issued Credentials
- Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI)
- Short Term Credential Programs
- Short-term Credentials / Short-term Credential Programs
- Short-term Credentials / Short-term Training
- Skilled Trades
- Skills and Competencies
- Skills Classifications
- Skills Cloud
- Skills Clusters
- Skills Ecosystem
- Skills Framework
- Skills Library
- Skills Mapping
- Skills Profiling / Skills Profile
- Skills Taxonomy
- Skills Validation
- Skills-based Ecosystem
- Skills-based Hiring
- Skills-based Incremental Credentialing
- Skills-based Promotion
- Skills-First Hiring
- Social Network Analysis (SNA)
- Specialist Tasks
- Specialized Library Collection / Sub-Collections
- Stackable Credentials
- Stand-alone Academic Certificates
- Standardized Test / Testing
- Standards & Frameworks
- STARS—Skilled Through Alternative Routes
- State Financial Aid Programs
- State Formula Funding
- State Incremental Funding
- State longitudinal data systems (SLDS) or P-20W data systems
- State Performance-based Funding (PBF)
- State Systems of Higher Education / Coordinating Boards
- Stateless Person
- Stop-Out
- Stranded Credits (Transcript Holds)
- Structured & Unstructured Data
- Student / Learner Mobility—in K-12
- Summer Bridge Program
- Sustainable Regional Systems Research Networks (SRS RN)
- Systemness
- Target School
- Technical Standards
- Technology Tools & Systems
- Technology-based Economic Development (TBED)
- Three-year / Accelerated Degrees
- Today’s Students
- Toolkit Generation
- Training /Employer-based Training
- Transcript Holds (Stranded Credits)
- Transfer & Credit Mobility Technology
- Transfer Shock
- Tribal College
- Trust in Credentialing
- Trusted Issuer List
- Tuition Equity Law
- Two-Generation Approach
- Unbundling
- Underemployment
- Underserved Community
- Undocumented Students
- Upskill
- Validity
- Value in Credentialing
- Verifications & Recordkeeping
- Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) Services
- Websites: Click through Rate, Bounce Rate, Time on Site
- Work Colleges
- Work-based Learning
- Workforce Development
- Workforce Equity
- Working Learner
- Workplace Equity
- World of Work
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and W3C Verifiable Credentials Data Model (W3C VCDM)
- Wraparound Learner (Student) Support Services
- Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC)
