Wellspring is a pioneering initiative to demonstrate the power of open standards to connect education to work, putting the learner at the center of a skills-based ecosystem. Western Governors University, a partner in the Wellspring project, will discuss their use-case of skills-denominated competency credentials expressed digitally into the ecosystem.
Wellspring is a pioneering initiative to demonstrate the power of open standards to connect education to work, putting the learner at the center of a skills-based ecosystem. Wellspring has organized education and employment partners in collaboration to design, demonstrate, learn and share key findings as they jointly develop curriculum and job requirements based on mutually defined competencies and skills. This session will present one partner’s use-case of skills-denominated competency credentials, expressed digitally into the Learning and Employment Record (LER) and Wallet ecosystem, as will their exemplar of their state’s Achievement Wallet.
Wellspring demonstrates how to connect educators and employers at scale through open standards and shows:
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Collaboration among 21 education, workforce, and employing organizations to develop skill-based curriculum aligned to jobs
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Programs optimized for microcredentials and comprehensive learner records
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Frameworks published in CASE, the open web standard for publishing skills taxonomies
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Live demonstration software showing how employer’s HR applicant tracking systems can process skills-based digital credentials
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A comprehensive learner record (CLR) designed for traditional academic records, prior learning assessments, and competency-based achievements
Attendees will learn key strategies for preparing their institutions to adopt skills-focused curriculum and skills to recognize all learning achievements and to learn what is possible at scale through the adoption of open standards for lifelong learning.