Micro-credentials Portal – eCampusOntario (Canada)
Florida Collegiate Purple Star Campus Program (Military)
Southeastern Regional Talent Ecosystem Pilot – AACRAO, Tennessee, Alabama
Overview In September 2024, the Southeastern Regional Talent Ecosystem Pilot launched with the aim to bridge the talent gap and enhance employment opportunities in the Southeastern U.S. Partners include the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Rework America Alliance
The Rework America Alliance is an initiative originally launched by the Markle Foundation, and now managed by Jobs for the Future. The alliance is focused on providing assistance and resources […]
Promising Practices Database: Community College Baccalaureate Degrees
Overview The Community College Baccalaureate Association (CCBA) created a Collection of Promising Practices to Advance Quality, Equity, and Success in Community College Baccalaureate Degree Programs, including proven solutions for making […]
BuildWithin: Software Platform in Apprenticeships
Overview BuildWithin is a software platform that launched in November 2022 to provide employers with the ability to create, manage, and expand apprenticeship programs in order to accelerate the productivity […]
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 […]
Digital-Reskilling at Universities (D-Reskill Project)
Overview The D-RESKILL@U Project, coordinated by Sorbonne Université, focuses on providing European higher education institutions with guidelines for online lifelong learning offers at the post-bachelors level for the reskilling or […]
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 […]
Value Data Collaborative (VDC)
Overview Launched in 2024 by the Institution for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), this initiative brings together representatives from states, institutions, and higher education systems to use data to better understand […]
Job & Skill Trends Tool – EUROPASS & ESCO
Overview Launched in October 2023, the Job & Skill Trends Tool developed from collaboration between ESCO and Europass as part of the implementation of the European Skills Agenda. The Tool relies on […]
Building Rural Innovation, Designing Educational Strategies (BRIDGES) & The Rural College Practitioner Design & Data Academies
Overview BRIDGES (Building Rural Innovation, Designing Educational Strategies) is a 3-year initiative launched in 2020 by the Education Design Lab. The initiative focuses on strengthening the capacity of rural community […]
Noncredit Mobility Academy
Overview In December 2023, Education Strategy Group, SHEEO (State Higher Education Executive Officers Association), and Opportunity America at the Progressive Policy Institute launched the Noncredit Mobility Academy. The two-year Academy […]
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 […]
Inventory of Community College Baccalaureate Degree Programs
Overview Currently, 25 states allow their community colleges by legislative action to offer some baccalaureate degrees: California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, […]
SmartResume – iDatafy LLC
Overview SmartResume is a new type of resume that recognizes the three-sided marketplace (ecosystem) connecting job seekers, higher education institutions, and employers using the power of digital credentials. Partners such […]
Delivering on the Degree: The College-to-Jobs Playbook
Overview Launched in April 2023, Delivering on the Degree: The College-to-Jobs Playbook was developed through The Project on Workforce with the aim to produce and catalyze basic and applied research at […]
Mapping Learning & Employment Records (LERs)
Overview The Digital Credentials Consortium (DCC), hosted at MIT Open Learning, is partnering with NationSwell (a B Corp dedicated to providing essential support to impact-driven leaders and organizations through a […]
National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students (NISTS)
Overview The National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students (NISTS), located at the University of North Georgia, is a national organization that focuses on transfer student success. NISTS operates […]
State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement (SARA)
Overview The National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements (NC-SARA) is a private nonprofit organization [501(c)(3)] that helps expand students’ access to educational opportunities and ensure more efficient, consistent, and […]
SNHU 2025
Overview Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) has developed a new mode of learning focused on stackable digital credentials and the alignment between jobs, skills, prior experience, and learning: SNHU 2025. […]
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 […]
Skillful – Markle Foundation, Rework America Alliance, Jobs for the Future
Overview Skillful, a nonprofit initiative of the Markle Foundation, works to develop resources to accelerate the adoption of skills-based practices to reduce bias in hiring and talent management and open […]
Jobs and Employment Data Exchange (JEDx)
Overview The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation and the T3 Innovation Network launched the Job Data Exchange (JDX) initiative in 2021 to develop a public-private approach for collecting and using […]
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, […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Just Equations
Overview Just Equations is an independent partnership focused on reconceptualizing the role of mathematics in ensuring educational equity. It works across educational sectors to build awareness and support for policies […]
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 […]
Credentials Matter
Overview Credentials Matter analyzes how the credentials that students earn align with real-world employer demand. The project includes a website and a series of reports informed by extensive collection and […]
The Education Blockchain Initiative
Overview The U.S. Department of Education Office of Educational Technology contracted with the American Council on Education (ACE) to lead the Education Blockchain Initiative (EBI). EBI launched in February 2020 […]