Digital Promise is a global nonprofit with a mission to expand opportunity for every learner. Authorized by Congress in 2008, it works with a wide range of partners and practitioners in the U.S. and around the world, launching initiatives that have impacted over 4.4 million students and 180,000 teachers across 173 districts and in 27 countries to date. The organization works with educators, researchers, technology leaders, and communities to design, investigate, and scale innovations that support learners, especially those who have been historically and systematically excluded.

Digital Promise has been building an ecosystem of microcredentials for educators. It offers more than 600 competency-based microcredentials on a wide range of research-backed skills. These microcredentials are developed, assessed, and awarded by more than 50 partner organizations, ranging from institutes of higher education to non-profit organizations.

Digital Promise has also designed a framework to guide the development of each microcredential to ensure that each microcredential:

• Focuses on a single competency
• Has a key method backed by research
• Requires the submission of evidence
• Includes a rubric or scoring guide

Examples of Digital Promise's work include:

• Artificial Intelligence in Education
  • Digital Promise prioritizes a human-centered approach to artificial intelligence in education–working across research, edtech, and practice–to augment learning.
• League of Innovative Schools
  • Digital Promise’s League of Innovative Schools connects thinking leaders of the nation’s school districts.
• Verizon Innovative Learning Schools
  • Verizon Innovative Learning Schools works with schools and districts to get internet-connected devices into the hands of learners and to enhance how teachers use technology in the classroom.

Resources

Digital Promise | About Us

Digital Promise | Our Work