Permeable Education System
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 […]
Leveraging AI for Skills Extraction & Research (LAiSER) – George Washington University
Overview In 2023, the Program on Skills, Credentials & Workforce Policy at the George Washington University launched a project to help learners, educators, and employers share trusted and mutually intelligible […]
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 […]
European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA)
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
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 […]
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 […]
Qualifications Frameworks (QFs)
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 […]
Microcredentials (Micro-Credentials)
Microcredentials are a record of focused learning achievement verifying what the learner knows, understands, or can do. They include an assessment based on clearly defined standards and are awarded by […]
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 […]
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
Microcredential (Micro-Credential)
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, […]