There are many ways to get involved with credential transparency. Regardless of which stage of the process you find yourself in, Credential Engine has various resources you can use to learn about, plan for, and work to create a transparent credential marketplace. The resources in this Toolkit are designed to help inform and guide your work.
To navigate the Toolkit, you can either scroll down, search for specific resources, or use the “Jump To” drop-down menu to navigate between sections (Understand the Value, Make the Case, Publish and Consume Data, and Build Enduring Commitment). Resources can also be filtered by audience types—implementers or decision makers—to quickly find resources more applicable to your scope of work. We will continue to add tools, guidance, and other materials that can help you achieve credential transparency.
This webinar brought together some of the leading experts on LERs to discuss what’s possible, what’s equitable, and how to make LERs interoperable across data systems so that learners, workers, credential issuers, employers, and our economies and communities can all benefit.
This video sets forth a shared vision for credential transparency—why we need it and what is possible with it.
Annual report series from Credential Engine helping to map the credential landscape.
Learn about how Credential Engine is bringing transparency and credential literacy to the marketplace for different audiences including higher education, the business community, and certification & licensure.
A series of policy briefs offers guidance to state leaders--supported by real state examples--on how to advance credential transparency.
View our infographic showing how Credential Transparency Illuminates Paths to a Better Future.
Almost 1,000,000 credentials exist in the United States. It’s difficult to find relevant information about many of them, but The Learn-and-Work Ecosystem Guide, developed by the Lumina Foundation, highlights the many intersecting initiatives aimed at shedding light on the confusing marketplace and shows where Credential Engine and its technologies fit.
This report analyzes the estimated yearly expenditures on education and training in the U.S.
HR and education technology powerhouses showcase verifiable career credentials via Velocity Network collaboration.
This PowerPoint presentation describes who Credential Engine is, what we do, and how transparency leads to transformation. Partners can adapt and customize this slide deck based on their needs.
This selection of press clips and other media are notable examples of how Credential Engine's work is being highlighted and gaining traction.
A selection of our most frequently asked questions and answers about Credential Engine's goals and technologies.
This resource guides states on how to improve credential quality and transparency by using the quality non-degree credential framework (outlined by National Skills Coalition) and the linked open data network, common description language, and publishing platform created by Credential Engine.
Credential Engine offers a wide range of freely available resources as well as fee-based services that meet the needs of organizations managing credential and competency data.
The Roadmap to Credential Transparency is a 10-step process that can help begin and advance the work of credential transparency.
The Midwest Credential Transparency Alliance Pathways Action Team has been working to identify existing career pathways in the Midwest, and how to improve them. This brief articulates a pathway model for how others can work to uncover and improve pathways through credential transparency.
Credential Transparency requires a collaborative effort; this guide provides context for who should be involved in the work within states and what their roles might be.
Use cases describe how students, employers, educators, policy makers, and other stakeholders can use the data in the Registry to address specific questions or challenges.
The Credential Registry and CTDL can be the backbone of numerous initiatives, projects, and other uses. These resources can help you develop and communicate use cases that are important to your audiences.
These additional fact sheets explain linked data and the Credential Transparency Description Language (CTDL).
View step-by-step instructions to create your organization's account and publish to the Credential Registry via manual entry, bulk upload, or the Credential Registry Assistant Publishing API.
Credential Engine created a new automated process for quality and currency controls that now generates detailed reports for Duplicate Resources, Broken Webpage Links, Resource Currency, and Incomplete Publishing, from the new Credential Registry Services page.
Credential Engine offers a wide range of freely available resources as well as fee-based services that meet the needs of organizations managing credential and competency data.
A general workflow that states, teams, and organizations can follow as they begin the work towards credential transparency and their partnership with Credential Engine.
Useful resources to get started with publishing and useful questions for developers building a connected learn-and-work ecosystem.
In order to ensure users have a basic level of data points by which to compare credentials, Credential Engine developed a policy to require a minimum set of data for those adding their data into the registry.
This sample RFP statement has been developed in consultation with Credential Engine’s Higher Education Advisory Group to help communicate institutional expectations for credential data transparency.
Credential Engine has recommendations publishing complex information such as costs.
A collection of publishing resources that provide instructions on how to publish credential data via the Bulk Upload publishing method.
This document provides publishers additional guidance on how to distinguish between certifications and certificates, and how to best represent certifications on the Registry.
These resources show how to efficiently edit competencies in the registry.
Many state and regional partners have existing credential data collection processes; Credential Engine's trusted third party publishing policies are designed to streamline workflows for efficient publishing while ensuring buy-in and participation from credential providers.
Use these resources to develop tools and applications that pull data from the Registry.
This Policy Brief outlines the actions state policymakers can take to make credential transparency part of their state’s education, workforce, and economic development strategies.
Sample template that can be used to enact policy solutions that support credential transparency
Sample statement developed in consultation with Credential Engine’s Higher Education Advisory Group to help communicate institutional expectations for credential data transparency
View step-by-step instructions to create your organization's account and publish to the Credential Registry via manual entry, bulk upload, or the Credential Registry Assistant Publishing API.