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I WANT TO: Champion Policy Solutions
Why Is Credential Transparency Valuable
Credential transparency is critical to policymakers because they are tasked with making important decisions about state, local, and federal education and workforce programs based on incomplete and confusing data.
While there are hundreds of thousands of credentialing options, too often too little is known about the content and quality of programs—creating challenges for the policymakers responsible for managing reporting requirements, making funding decisions, and understanding the linkages between education and workforce outcomes. A comprehensive and transparent credential marketplace empowers these decisionmakers with the data they need in order to support short- and long-term education and workforce solutions.
Through Credential Engine, Technologies Are Now Available To:
Connect
credential data across systems and to other credentials
Compare
credential data in real-time
Curate
credential data in new ways to meet educational and economic needs
Collect
credential data in a common language across all types of credentials from all types of providers
Connect
credential data across systems and to other credentials
Compare
credential data in real-time
Curate
credential data in new ways to meet educational and economic needs
A transparent credential marketplace helps policymakers:
Communicate clear use cases of benefit to students, workers, employers, educators, and key policy goals
Identify what credential data is necessary to be made open and accessible to make informed decisions
Align data and initiatives across agencies and throughout the entire education and workforce spectrum
Ensure that the full inventory of credentials is described and made available via a common, open language
Link and align credential data with other essential data (wages, employment, jobs, etc.)
Support applications that use credential data to serve various audiences
Support and maintain an infrastructure that ensures all data is current, accurate, and open
How Can I Create a Transparent Credential Marketplace?
Spotlight
Six Major Associations are Leading State Policy Commitments to Credential Transparency
Six leading state policy organizations have joined Credential Engine to create the first State Policy Partnership focused on expanding credential transparency. The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), Data Quality Campaign (DQC), Education Commission of the States (ECS), National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), National Governors Association (NGA), State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO), and Credential Engine are leading strategic state-level efforts in policy development, resource-building, and alignment.
