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Credential Transparency State Partnerships Overview
State and regional partners are working with Credential Engine to use the Credential Transparency Description Language (CTDL) and publish data to the Credential Registry. Credential Engine’s technologies support numerous statewide priorities. This resource provides an overview of our current state and regional partnerships.
Simplifying Credential Data Management using Credential Transparency Identifiers (CTIDs)
Credential Transparency Identifiers (CTIDs) bring the benefits of unique identifiers to credentialing ecosystems. CTIDs allow credentials and their associated information to be distinguished, thoroughly described, and widely recognized through effective data management practices.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Letter on Uniform Guidance
Response to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Request for Information on Uniform Guidance for Grants and Agreements
How to Align Digital Credentials with Meaningful CTDL Data
Examples of digital credentials that are designed to include alignments to the Registry are Open Badges, W3C Verifiable Credentials, and Velocity Network credentials. Use these simple steps to enrich digital credentials by linking to CTDL data in the Registry.
Alabama’s Success Plus Attainment Goal Progress 2018–2021: Credential Attainment Report
This report, an important step in accounting for credential attainment across multiple education and training systems, aims to provide a clearer picture of the credential landscape and statewide progress toward attainment goals. The credential attainment numbers represent important progress toward Alabama’s Success Plus goals.
Using Credential Transparency to Advance Student Success and State Outcomes: Spotlight on Indiana
Given the advantages of credential transparency to improve equitable student and state outcomes, numerous state higher education executive officers (SHEEO) organizations and the institutions they work with have begun to implement credential transparency and registries in their states. To explain the value of these registries, SHEEO has highlighted Indiana’s Commission for Higher Education (ICHE).
Learning Economy Foundation and Credential Engine Joint Services Scaling LER Ecosystems with Linked Open Data and LearnCard
Learning Economy Foundation (LEF) and Credential Engine (CE) are excited to announce a partnership and joint services offering to empower learners and accelerate the adoption of open tools and protocols that enable individual agency and organizational insights. Together, LEF and CE bring a complementary package of technologies and best practices to states, post-secondary institutions, employers, and any organization looking to make ecosystem-level impact at scale.
Credential Transparency Self-Assessment
This self-assessment tool provides an overview of the specific steps laid out in the “Making Sense of Credentials: A State Roadmap and Action Guide for Transparency” report that state leaders can take to help integrate a common data infrastructure into their statewide education systems and to build a public, open marketplace for information about credentials for learners, workers, employers, and others to make informed decisions about credentials and pathways.
The Fast Train from Chaos
Board member, Kathleen deLaski, shares her thoughts on the chaos caused by the "unbundling" of higher education and examines the findings of the 2022 Counting Credentials report.