Technical Interoperability Project (TIP)   A competency-based technology solution that is identifying the needs of institutions moving toward CBE and the vendors who can fill those needs. Using a twenty-seven question survey, TIP  is analyzing data to find common issues across program types and software vendors.  Managed by Public Agenda and funded by the Gates Foundation.

Tennessee Promise is both a scholarship and mentoring program focused on increasing the number of students that attend college in our state. It provides students a last-dollar scholarship, meaning the scholarship will cover the cost of tuition and mandatory fees not covered by the Pell grant, the HOPE scholarship, or the Tennessee Student Assistance Award. Students may use the scholarship at any of the state’s 13 community colleges, 27 colleges…

Tennessee Reconnect is Governor Bill Haslam’s initiative to help more of our state’s adults enter higher education to gain new skills, advance in the workplace, and fulfill lifelong dreams of completing a degree or credential. Managed by Tennessee Reconnect and funded by the State of Tennessee.

The Adult College Completion (ACC) Network unites organizations and agencies working to increase college completion by adults with prior college credits but no degree in a collaborative learning network. Any organizations, agencies, individuals, and other entities working in the field are invited to join this network and share information about their work. This includes submitting projects to the “Project Warehouse,” which is a collection of efforts to boost adult college…

The Alliance for Quality Career Pathways is a partner-driven, CLASP-led initiative that developed a consensus framework to establish a common understanding of quality career pathways and systems, including stackable credentials, to help state and local/regional partnerships strengthen their career pathway systems. Managed by CLASP and funded by the Joyce & James Irvine Foundations, Greater Twin Cities United Way.

AAEEBL, the Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning, is a professional association and a U. S. non-profit with members in four countries.  Its goal is to promote portfolio learning as a major way to transform higher education. Managed and funded by the Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning. Managed and funded by the Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning.

This webinar will focus on the Beta Credentials Framework – what it is, how it was developed, how it is organized, and – most importantly – what YOU can do with it. The Webinar will also preview a hot-off-the press Guidebook that outlines potential applications for the Framework, such as comparing credentials and stacking credentials. Join this discussion to explore how the Framework can add value to the important work…

The Georgetown University Center on Education & the Workforce provides stream of data in all reports that show access to particular awards and fields of study by sex, race, ethnicity, and class. This is crucial in the building of a credentialing system to ensure that it does not exclude particular people or create labor market shelters that create artificial barriers to entry that are inefficient. See Reports: Separate and Unequal. …