Playbook: The Power of Partnerships in Creating Incremental Credentials – Credential As You Go
Framework for Advancing Equitable Credit for Prior Learning – REACH Guidebook Series
Colorado Skills Institute (CSI) – Colorado Community College System
VALID-8 — Vametric
Credit for Prior Learning Policies: A Database of Findings from the ACE-CAEL 50-State Analysis
Prior Learning Network– American Council on Education
Enhancing Global Learning Mobility Through Credential Transparency – AACRAO / Credential Engine
Governance and Technology Needs for Implementing Issuer Registries within Learning and Employment Record Ecosystems –DCC and Credential Engine
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 […]
Innovations in Credentialing – Western Governors University
Overview Western Governors University (WGU) is a private, non-profit online university based in Millcreek, Utah. WGU uses an online competency-based learning model and focuses on providing advanced education for working […]
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
New Jersey Pathways to Career Opportunities
Overview In December 2021, New Jersey’s community colleges and the New Jersey Business and Industry Association launched the New Jersey Pathways to Career Opportunities—Aligning Education to Build an Innovative Workforce. […]
Learning Mobility / Learner Mobility
Beyond Transfer Policy Advisory Board (PAB)
Overview Funded by ECMC and facilitated by SOVA, the Beyond Transfer Policy Advisory Board (PAB) was launched in 2020 to advance the work of dismantling inequitable credit mobility and transfer […]
Universal European Degree – European Union
Overview In 2024, the European Commission (EU) adopted a series of proposals to create a third-level qualification to be recognized by all EU member states. Third-level qualifications refer to educational […]
Credit Mobility / Holistic Credit Mobility
Playbook: Incremental Credentialing at the Graduate Level (Credential As You Go)
Overview Credential As You Go is an initiative working with many partners toward a nationally recognized transferable incremental credentialing system that increases the number of high-quality, post-high school credentials that lead […]
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. […]
Challenge Exams
LER Accelerator
Overview The LER Accelerator was launched in 2024 with support from Walmart. The effort is boosting the adoption of Learning and Employment Records (LERs) in postsecondary education by focusing on […]
Midwest Credential Transparency Alliance (MCTA)
Overview The Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC) launched The Midwest Credential Transparency Alliance (MCTA) in January 2021 to work with all 12 Midwest states to help move them along a path […]
Playbook: Incremental Credentialing Framework (Credential As You Go)
Overview Credential As You Go is an initiative working with many partners toward a nationally recognized transferable incremental credentialing system that increases the number of high-quality, post-high school credentials that […]
Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education (VALUE) — AAC&U
Overview The Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education (VALUE) initiative is the signature approach to learning assessment from the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). Recognizing the need […]
Three-year Baccalaureate Degree (Accelerated, Fast Track, or Reduced Credit Degree Programs)
Credentialing: Policy & Implementation – Colorado
Overview Colorado passed multiple bills in 2022 to support credentialing strategies and assist disadvantaged students. Stackable Credential Pathways (Senate Bill 22-192) calls for improving access to quality credentials of value […]
Credential Lab Service & Innovation Center – Higher Learning Commission
Overview The Higher Learning Commission (HLC) launched the Credential Lab in September 2023 with initial funding support from Lumina Foundation. The Credential Lab is a hub that supports educational providers, […]
PLA Inside Out: An International Journal on Theory, Research and Practice in Prior Learning Assessment
Overview PLA Inside Out (PLAIO) is the first scholarly online journal entirely devoted to the recognition and assessment of prior experiential learning. Produced at the State University of New York (SUNY) […]
IDB Digital Credential Framework (Inter-American Development Bank)
Overview The IDB Digital Credential Framework (the Framework) is the key reference tool and roadmap to recognize knowledge-building and continuous learning with digital credentials. Issued in May 2023 by the […]
Noncredit to Credit Bridges
Noncredit courses are designed for students who wish to advance their educational and career goals. There are a variety of bridge tools institutions can use to strengthen how noncredit courses […]
Incremental Credentialing Framework
The Incremental Credential Framework was developed through a 2019-2021 planning, research, and testing project in a Lumina Foundation grant to SUNY Empire State College (Credential As You Go, Phase I). […]
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 […]
Ed2Work
Education Commission of the States (ECS)
Lessons Learned from Launching a Micro-credential Program, Kennesaw State University
Overview Kennesaw State University (KSU) launched a micro-credential program (described in an interview published 11/20/2022 in The EvoLLLution) as an institution-wide initiative, rather than something that lived in either a […]
Prior Learning Assessment, Credit for Prior Learning, Recognition of Prior Learning
Non-degree Credentials
Incremental Credential / Incremental Credentialing System / Incremental Credentialing Framework
Credit Pathways, Noncredit-to-Credit Articulation
Auto-award (Automatic)
Competency-Based Education (CBE)
Learning Mobility — AACRAO
Overview The American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) is addressing the need to improve credit mobility. The consistent and equitable application of student records processes and practices […]
Rasmussen University Phase 1 Comprehensive Learning Record Project
Overview Rasmussen University joined a group of institutions in 2022 to help develop the Comprehensive Learner Record (CLR), a skills-based transcript that shows what learners know and can do – […]
Expanding the Learner Record: XLR Project
Overview Since 2015, AACRAO – working with Lumina Foundation, NASPA, NILOA, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 1EdTech, and other higher education organizations – has supported over 50 colleges and […]
Learning in Public — College Unbound
Overview Many forms of learning traditionally go unseen by colleges. College Unbound’s Learning in Public (LIP) identifies, reflects on, and credits learning that takes place outside a college course. College […]
ASU Pocket
Overview The ASU Pocket project is building Pocket as a digital wallet and portfolio that captures and stores the holistic evidence of learning. It is designed to capture what Arizona […]
Essential Learning Outcomes Framework — AAC&U
Overview First released in 2007, the American Association of Colleges and Universities’ (AAC&U) Essential Learning Outcomes Framework has been widely adopted by higher education institutions and by a number of […]
Employer Engagement Best Practices Guide — C-BEN
Overview C-BEN (Competency-Based Education Network) is a network of institutions, employers, and experts who believe competencies can unlock the future of learning, making postsecondary education and training more flexible, responsive, […]