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Why is this important: A transparent credential marketplace helps you raise the visibility of your programs to students, workers, veterans, returning adults, employers, and others seeking credential information. With credential transparency, you’ll be able to answer key credential questions, highlight program differentiation, and improve your ability to track credential trends.

How we can help: We’ll help you take your credential data, map it to CTDL, identify and solve data gaps, and give you a custom experience in using our accounts and publisher system to get your data published to the Credential Registry.

Why is this important: Increase the relevance of credentials, programs, courses, and pathways by using the Credential Registry to publish competencies and skills and create linked open data alignments to occupational and industry frameworks (such as O*NET and NICE), job skills, and other competencies.

How we can help: We’ll help you organize the competency or skill information you have at a course, learning program, job, or credential level and publish it to the Credential Registry. We’ll also help you create alignments to other Registry data, such as occupational and industry frameworks.

Why is this important: Learning and career pathways provide structured routes for individuals to gain knowledge and skills that guide them toward meaningful careers while enabling lifelong learning. Transparent pathways help everyone understand not just what credentials exist, but how they connect to real opportunities and outcomes.

How we can help: We’ll help you take static pathways and create quality pathways using transparent, linked open data that benefits learners, workers, and employers by providing actionable guidance. Our Credential Registry Pathway Builder offers an intuitive drag-and-drop interface to build simple or complex pathways using data from multiple sources, then publish them to the Credential Registry as CTDL linked open data for wider accessibility.

Why is this important: People need to combine education and training from multiple sources in order to continuously re-skill and upskill in rapidly changing careers. CTDL Transfer Values can be used to describe course credit transfer among institutions, credit recommendations by third party evaluators, credit for prior learning, transfer value among different types of credentials, and transfer value among different types of organizations, such as military and work experience equivalencies.

How we can help: We’ll help you take the transfer values – or other credit for prior learning – you award and make it available as linked open data and connect it to courses, learning programs, and credentials. We’ll also help you leverage Registry data to connect to the American Council on Education (ACE) National Guide, Advanced Placement (AP), CLEP, and other published sources of credit transfer.

Why is this important: Credentials of value are important because they provide consistent signals to help students, workers, and career changers identify which high-quality training programs will actually lead to meaningful employment and achieve their education and earnings goals, preventing wasted investments in ineffective programs. 

How we can help: We help you ensure credential value by combining quality frameworks with our CTDL and linked open data network, enabling state agencies and other organizations to define, describe, and publish quality criteria so stakeholders can easily distinguish between credentials that deliver real value and those that don’t. We’ll help you publish your credentials of value list and other relevant data to support your definitions of quality, like earnings and employment outcomes.

Why is this important: There is an obstacle to skills-first hiring and development due to the lack of transparency and open data about the skills needed for jobs. Employers don’t have clear open skills information about candidates needed for matching the right people with the right jobs, and workers don’t know if their experience and credentials provide the skills needed for open positions.

How we can help: We can help make jobs available as structured, open, linked and interoperable data, including the competencies, knowledge, skills, abilities, tasks, and work roles. For public sector jobs, this can support improvement in hiring employees based on skills or used for skills matching from the educational offerings in the state to the public sector jobs in the state.

Why is this important: Federal program accountability and guidance are increasingly citing the need for publishing education and training programs in structured, open, linked and interoperable data formats.

How we can help: Credential Engine has targeted expertise for helping states transform their Eligible Training Provider (ETP) lists to linked-open data requirements, including adding rich connections to in-demand occupations, jobs, skills, and more. Whether you are a state that maintains your own Eligible Training Provider data system or work with a vendor who supports ETP data collection, we can help you transform your data into a structured data language and publish your providers and their programs and credentials in an interoperable format.

Why is this important: Learning and Employment Records (LERs) are a solution that enable people to collect and control their own comprehensive digital records of employment, education, training, and skills in a portable wallet that works across different systems and processes. When linked to open, interoperable information, LERs become truly meaningful: they give learners, workers, educators, and employers the full context they need to make informed decisions along learning and career pathways.

How we can help: We can help you maximize the power of LERs by incorporating CTDL into your digital credentials. We’ll help you publish credential and skill data in CTDL to the Credential Registry, so that your preferred digital credential, wallet, or LER platform can link to this rich data.

Why is this important: Do you need specialized support in open data strategies and implementation for credentials, skills and competencies, education and career pathways, transfer value, and quality assurance to meet your – or your client’s – use case? Don’t know where to start? Let’s talk.

How we can help: To enable a broader community of providers to leverage these technologies more effectively, Credential Engine offers fee-based technical design and development services. Our services team has deep expertise in all phases of project design through implementation, including technical project management, data modeling and design, schema development and mapping, data publishing, datastore infrastructure, and integrations. 

Why is this important: Credential Engine maintains the Credential Registry, an open public infrastructure designed to support transparent, structured credential, skill, and job data. Organizations integrate Registry data into their platforms to power credential and skill discovery, improve credential transparency, and enable interoperability across education, workforce, and talent systems. Registry data is open and publicly accessible. Organizations building production integrations with the Credential Registry, however, typically benefit from structured technical guidance, integration expertise, and strategic alignment with Credential Engine technologies and standards.

How we can help: We offer a Vendor Integration Program for technology product developers, that provides the technical support, partnership alignment, and integration resources necessary to successfully integrate Registry data into commercial platforms, applications, and data products.

Why is this important: The Registry technology can support regional and state-specific credential libraries that show just the information that you need, from credentials to learning programs, outcomes to occupations, with all the rich connections made possible by CTDL linked open data. 

How we can help: Credential Engine has targeted expertise for helping states and regions benefit from credential and competency transparency.  We can help you think through strategy, project management, and implementation support for using CTDL data effectively to achieve your goals, including the development of a statewide credential library, support for LERs, and more. Let’s work together!

Why is this important: Enhance your project, strategic plan, or policy guidance with structured, open, linked, and interoperable data to ensure that your solutions transparently support the broadest group of stakeholders. 

How we can help: Credential Engine’s suite of unique technologies and services help many different types of organizations, agencies, and companies achieve their goals for credential and competency transparency. We offer fee-based services for strategy, project management, and implementation support focused on using CTDL data effectively.

Why is this important: Federal program accountability and guidance increasingly require states to publish education and training programs in structured, open, linked, and interoperable data formats. TEGL 07-25 specifically emphasizes this requirement under Pillar IV: Accountability, directing states to publish education and training programs in formats that produce valid and transparent data that assesses return on investment. In addition, Pillar I: Industry-Driven Strategies, calls for aligning training programs to in-demand sectors, career pathways, and employer-validated competencies, while Pillar II: Worker Mobility, highlights the need for credential registries and AI-powered talent marketplace tools that support skills-based advancement. 

How we can help: Credential Engine provides the structured data infrastructure states need to meet these federal priorities. The Credential Transparency Description Language (CTDL) is a comprehensive linked open data schema that structures education and workforce information, including credentials, competencies, skills, learning opportunities, jobs, pathways, quality assurance, and outcomes, into interoperable formats. Credential Engine works with states to transform data from existing workforce, education, and vendor systems into CTDL and publish it through the Credential Registry, creating comprehensive credential libraries that support talent marketplaces, learning and employment records (LERs), job-matching tools, and labor market information systems. Whether your state maintains its own data infrastructure or works with external vendors, we provide the technical expertise and implementation support needed to operationalize the structured, open, linked, and interoperable data expectations.

Why is this important: There are a growing number of grant and funding opportunities available to strengthen the connections between learners and earners, education and training providers, and employers through the development of integrated Talent Marketplaces, which include learning and employment records (LERs), a credential registry, and tools that translate jobs and credentials into clear, skill-based information.

How we can help: The Credential Registry and our technologies support the creation of comprehensive state credential libraries needed for Talent Marketplaces. We can work with states to take training provider and credential data from disparate data systems, align it to our Credential Transparency Description Language (CTDL), and publish it in a linked open data format to ensure interoperability with LERs, as well as jobs, skills, and career tools for learners and workers.