Connecting credentials: a beta credentials framework: building a system for communicating about and connecting diverse credentials

The framework uses competencies - what the learner knows and is able to do - as common reference points to help understand and compare the levels and types of knowledge and skills that underlie degrees, certificates, industry certifications, licenses, apprenticeships, badges and other credentials. Competencies are understood both in industry and academia and can be applied in multiple contexts, making them a powerful unifying way to examine credentials. The framework is intended to connect the dots among diverse credentials by using a common language to describe what recipients of each credent ... Show more

Corporate authors: Lumina Foundation for Education

Published: Indianapolis, Indiana, Lumina Foundation, 2015

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Physical description: 12 p.

Access item: https://www.luminafoundation.org/resources/connecting-credentials

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