I WANT TO: Understand Credentials

Why is Credential Transparency Valuable?

Credential transparency empowers everyone looking for education and training options with the data they need to make a well-informed decision, enables employers to better evaluate the value of a credential’s ability to meet business needs, and allow organizations that service students, workers, employers and other stakeholders to provide clearer information about the value of various credentials.

In the current marketplace, people looking for training have to search through individual website pages to find key information like cost, time to completion, and competencies—which is difficult. The wide variety of terms used to describe the data (e.g., using “tuition” instead of “cost”) makes head-to-head comparisons challenging. Through transparency, we help credential users search, discover and compare credentials to meet their needs, employers find both the workers and the education and training programs that meet their needs, and allow everyone to understand how credentials and careers connect to best prepare for the current and emerging workplace.