CTDL Solutions That Empower People:
Credential Finder
The Credential Finder is a public web-based application that empowers everyone to search, discover, and explore credential and skill information. Whether you’re using the search filters, search results, detail pages, or reports, all of the content is based on CTDL data in the Credential Registry. The Finder helps people understand how data published to the Registry can be used to fuel the creation of services and tools that empower people with timely and trusted information about credentials, skills, and learning and career pathways.
Education Design Lab Data Collab for a Skills-Based Economy (Data Collab)
The Data Collab is an innovative data hub that connects and aggregates data across a range of sources to uncover how new education-to-work models can support economic mobility for new majority learners. It provides data infrastructure, dashboards, and data exploration tools that empower leaders and designers engaged in Education Design Lab initiatives, and alternative credentials in general, to ask and answer deeper questions about equitable learner outcomes. The CTDL provides the Data Collab schema for credentials, programs, courses, competencies, and pathways, helping people who are using the data to clearly understand the relationships among these different components. Globally unique Credential Registry CTIDs provide critical structure for clearly identifying each data entity and unambiguously connecting data from numerous sources, so that people aren’t confused about which item is being referenced in the reports and discovery tools.
Indiana School Finder
The Indiana School Finder, developed in 2021 by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education and Onebridge, is a comprehensive, free tool for students to explore over 3,000 postsecondary programs in Indiana. Hosted on the Learn More Indiana website, it features an interactive map with detailed information about each program, including a unique description, a link to the programmatic webpage, and average earnings after graduation. Initially providing only basic data, it now offers extensive details made possible by consuming CTDL from the Credential Registry. The tool benefits institutions through a dedicated analytics dashboard and is promoted through various channels for widespread awareness. Targeting students, parents, educators, and policymakers, the School Finder is a significant resource for informed college decision-making.
iQ4 Achievement Wallet
iQ4’s Achievement Wallet helps learners quickly showcase their qualifications, skills, and accomplishments to potential employers, networking contacts, or educational institutions by understanding the CTDL information inside any added digital credential. This feature provides a one-stop source of detailed information about the credential’s content, assessments, and the skills or competencies it represents, which ensures transparency and promotes understanding for learners, hiring managers, workforce agencies, and policymakers. All of this CTDL information is also integrated with iQ4’s skill-based career pathways so that learners can review multiple recommendations for future roles and specific jobs. The more information available, the more accurately it can align education paths with career goals, enhancing the learner’s journey and likelihood of achieving desired outcomes.
Parchment Award
Parchment Award users can easily access the benefits of CTDL information in the digital diplomas, certificates, and badges they issue to learners. Through integration with the Credential Registry, Parchment issuers can enhance their credentials with the rich metadata information published in the Registry. By simply adding an earned credential’s CTID, the Parchment Award displays comprehensive and pertinent information for the earner and all of the audiences with whom they choose to share their accomplishments. This connection between the digital credential and the metadata in the Registry allows digital credentials to do what paper credentials cannot. By making digital credentials data-rich and interactive, learners can truly reflect on their achievements. Additionally, verifiers receive an in-depth view of skills and competencies, enabling learners to maximize their potential. Collaboratively, this approach can help issuers and learners transform their credentials into valuable opportunities.
 Program Finder on My Colorado Journey
The enhanced Program Finder on My Colorado Journey is a digital platform that utilizes CTDL to assist learners and job seekers in finding suitable educational and training programs. It enables these stakeholders to efficiently compare programs, access detailed descriptions, and utilize advanced filters for an informed decision-making process. CTDL standardization facilitates this by ensuring clarity and comparability across listings. Developed by Pairin and provided by the Colorado Workforce Development Council, this tool empowers users to navigate their educational and career pathways effectively.
