Credly

Published: 12/12/2022  |  Last Updated: 04/25/2025
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Credly, a Pearson business working in the digital credentialing space, is a global Open Badge platform that focuses on closing the gap between skills and opportunities. Credly works with academic institutions, corporations, and professional associations to design credentialing programs that translate learning outcomes into digital credentials that are validated, managed, and shared.

Credly offers a range of services:

  • Research
  • Guidance in creating a badge recognition strategy
  • Developing a competency framework
  • Building out governance and communication processes
  • Job skill analysis
  • Credential-to-learning path evaluations
  • Developing change management plans.

Credly products include:

  • Directory of the credentials learners earn.
  • Common language of verified knowledge, skills, and abilities that can be used by higher education institutions, employers, and third-party organizations.
  • Credly Acclaim digital badging platform offers a comprehensive set of features to design and issue badges; ways to scale and manage programs; analytics to measure success; and security and privacy features to ensure products and data are secure.
  • Credly Workforce helps companies with:
    • Workforce analytics
    • Employee engagement
    • Talent mobility
    • Skills visibility
  • Credly’s Talent Acquisition resources help employers with candidate assessment, training, and consulting.

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