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This week, Executive Director Scott Cheney, joined Center for Education Reform’s Jeanne Allen for a podcast to talk about the burgeoning marketplace of credentialing, and how policymakers, entrepreneurs and educators can work together to further streamline the pathways between high school, higher education, and the workforce. To stream the full episode, click here.
The learn-and-work marketplace is growing more complex and chaotic. If it were a highway, we’d describe it like this: there is a lot of traffic, innovation cars are moving at different speeds, there are few traffic lights and no traffic controllers. Furthermore, many funders (both government and foundations) are supporting different cars, with cars competing […]
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Central to the mission of credential transparency is the ability to share data in a common open language that helps shed light on the confusing and opaque credential landscape. In an exciting leap forward for Credential Engine, the Credential Engine Publisher tool has been certified as an IMS Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange (CASE) consumer. […]
Today, alternative credentials are stepping up to meet the needs of both employers and workers, providing industry-validated on and off ramps which serve as milestones on what is now known to be a lifelong learning pathway. At UPCEA, we are very excited about how the Registry’s transparency elevates alternative credentials.
People deserve a system that will help them get higher up the ladder of opportunity, with credentials that have value and lead directly to jobs or further education. The registry offers an exciting solution to this goal.
One of the biggest issues today is the mobility and transferability of credentials. The Registry is very useful in helping people understand how students can connect a credential from one program to another.