Below, please find links to a host of resources and information focused on learning and employment records.
Have something you think should be added to this list? Email it to the SkillsFWD team.
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UpSkill America at the Aspen Institute
Prioritizing Small and MidSized Businesses: Early Lessons for Skills and Credentials Leaders
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Credential Engine
Credential Transparency Description Language (CTDL)
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National Skills Coalition
How Montana is Advancing Rural Workforce Solutions
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Skills Scoop
A newsletter dedicated to making LERs accessible, understandable, and impactful
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SkillsFWD
FWD THINKING synthesizes key findings from SkillsFWD’s first year of research and discovery reporting
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Digital Promise
The Pathways Unlocked toolkit is a resource that helps project teams create credentialing platforms
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Northeastern University Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy
Northeastern and Grads of Life on Microcredentials and Hiring
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Education Design Lab
2025 Skills Validation Market Scan, including an overview of emerging practices + tools
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Velocity Network Foundation
Transforming Healthcare Credentialing
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Multiple Industry Contributors (hosted on T3 Innovation Network website)
LER Ecosystem Map
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National Governors Assoication
Learning and Employing Record Use Cases
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Brookings Institution
Going Digital: How Learning and Employment Records Shape Access to Quality Education and Jobs
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T3 Innovation Network
Introduction to LERs
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Digital Promise
Learning Transition Design Principles for Learning and Employment Records: Co-designing for Equity
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Credential Engine
Learning and Employment Records Action Guide
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Work Shift
What’s in Your (Skills) Wallet?
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Digital Promise
Why Co-designing Learning and Employment Records Technologies is Best Practice
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Jobs for the Future
Digital Learning Records Make the Job Market More Equitable and CBOs Can Help
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National Governors Association
Skills-Driven State Community of Practice
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Aspen Institute
Employer Engagement in Learning and Employment Records
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AACRAO
Digital Credentials: Comprehensive Learner Record/Learning & Employment Record Resources
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Aspen Institute
Creating Clear Messages: Early Lessons for LER Leaders
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Aspen Institute
From Should to Will: Getting Concrete About the Benefits of Learning and Employment Records
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Aspen Institute
Messaging Guide: Making the Case for Learning & Employment Records with Employers
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The Burning Glass Institute and the Harvard Business School Project on Managing the Future of Work
Skills-Based Hiring: The Long Road from Pronouncements to Practice