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Credential Transparency is Essential to Attaining State Policymaker Goals
This fact sheet concisely and effectively explains the importance of credential transparency and the need to advance and support it through timely policy.
Services for Publishing Competencies and Skills: Getting Started
Credential Engine provides easy to understand services packages to get started publishing competencies and skills.
Certification and Licensure Organizations Fact Sheet
One of the primary challenges that certification and state licensure organizations face is finding successful marketing strategies to not only effectively demonstrate the quality and market value of their program but also to keep their program highly visible to their stakeholders, potential applicants and the public.
Credential Transparency Description Language Fact Sheet
The Credential Transparency Description Language (CTDL) is a scheme (a type of-mini language that people and systems can use to understand each other even if their data comes from different sources) that anyone can use to share information about credentialing data. The CTDL not only provides a common and unified way of describing information in the Credential Registry, it is also an open language that can be used on the web. This powerful feature makes it dramatically easier for students, businesses, researchers, and automated systems to discover, understand, and compare information about credentials from a variety of sources.
Employer Fact Sheet
To aid employers in understanding the credential marketplace, Credential Engine developed a suite of web-based services that, when used together, provide clear credential information that is centrally stored and easily accessed.
Higher Education Fact Sheet
To aid higher education institutions understand the credential marketplace, we have developed a suite of web-based services that when used together provide clear credential information that is centrally stored and easily accessed.
Quality Assurance Bodies Fact Sheet
As new credentials come into the marketplace quality assurance bodies face the challenge of trying to track and evaluate each new credential to keep the public informed.
Linked Data Fact Sheet
Structured data is machine-readable and used by search engines to understand the content of web pages. Linked Data is a type of structured data that links between systems via the Web. When data is both structured and linked, it becomes a powerful tool that search engines and other systems can leverage.
Indiana Scales-Up Workforce in Healthcare and Beyond
The success of Indiana’s economy relies on building a high-quality workforce ready to innovate and power the state into the future. Health-related jobs are crucial to Indiana’s economy, and as they represent 25% of its in-demand jobs, understanding the healthcare credentials currently offered in the state is critical to ensuring programs are ready to expand, evolve, and scale to meet future needs. To do this, Indiana committed to work with credentialing organizations to publish all healthcare-related credentials to the Credential Registry. Partnering with Credential Engine, the Indiana Commission for Higher Education has worked with Indiana’s credential providers to publish over 1,000 healthcare credentials on the Credential Registry so far, building a clear map of where the healthcare credentialing ecosystem is, and where it needs to go.
State Technical Assistance Fact Sheet
Just as states are forced to address shifting labor market demands, they are under increased obligation to identify, fund, and deliver high quality credentials. Yet the tools and approaches typically used to make these determinations are insufficient to meet the need at any one time, let alone keep current. More than ever, credential transparency and an ability to make informed decisions about the value of credentials through comparative analysis is essential. Credential Engine can support states in designing and implementing practices and policies that improve information about—and access to—transparent and open credential and competency information.