- #LERAccelerator: AACRAO is leading the LER Accelerator Coalition, a coalition of national associations representing college campus stakeholders to address the slow adoption of digital credentials. The LER Accelerator Coalition will increase awareness of the need for and use of digital credentials, reduce obstacles to adoption for institutions and employers, develop guidelines for implementation and application, and demonstrate successful models and examples. Funding from Walmart enables the LER Accelerator Coalition to address the identified needs and challenges institutions experience when adopting digital credentials.
- Infuse: This month, AACRAO hosted a convening of key stakeholder groups, technology providers, and other industry leaders to advance the Infuse initiative. Designed to democratize access to innovative credentials, Infuse focuses on providing foundational LERs for millions of learners—particularly those at under-resourced institutions. By converting transcripts into structured data, leveraging AI to infer skills, validating credentials, and building a secure, interoperable infrastructure, Infuse seeks to enhance learner agency, reduce institutional barriers, and foster the adoption of equitable, scalable digital credentialing systems.
- Southeast Talent Collaborative: The Southeast Talent Collaborative is a Proof-of-Concept (PoC) project to provide a means to enable credential interoperability between Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR) Comprehensive Learner Record (CLR) and Alabama’s Talent Triad, Alabama’s statewide Learner and Employment Record (LER). (Note – TBR administers the College System of Tennessee, which includes 37 Community & Technical Colleges.) A student receiving a CLR from TBR will be able to place their credentials, which include TBR asserted skills and competencies, and place them directly into the Alabama digital wallet/repository. The PoC will leverage the “Advanced Manufacturing” award, which will provide a demonstration of both digital and semantic (i.e., how asserted skills from TBR translate to Alabama’s context) interoperability. The initial exchange of credentials is scheduled for January of 2025 (an administrative exchange of credentials) with the learner agency over their disclosure expected in June of 2025.
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