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Achievement, Opportunity and Employment

All Learners Have a Story, Help Them Tell It

 

All Learners Have a Story, Help Them Tell It

 

1EdTech members are revolutionizing how learners capture their achievements and competencies beyond the traditional transcript to help each student tell their story. They do this by leveraging digital microcredentials, and learner-owned lifelong achievement records developed and supported by the 1EdTech community.

 

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Help Learners Capture and Share Achievements for a Lifetime of Opportunities

Enable new connections between the world of work and the world of education, enhancing opportunity and building lifelong relationships between education providers and learners at all levels.

  • Enhance student pathways
  • Enable a richer transcript with a variety of achievements
  • Increase offerings for alumni
  • Recognize achievement at a granular level
  • Build stronger partnerships with employers
  • Connect your students to employers

 

 

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Pickens County School District

The School District of Pickens County created the RISE Challenge for professional learning offerings, which allows district educators to receive professional development at a pace and schedule that works for them and makes it easier to put what they learn into practice.

Using 1EdTech’s open interoperability standards, educators have seamless access to professional development challenges focused on utilizing technology in the classroom and reflecting on pedagogy.  

Professional Certification Designed for Leaders Like You
TrustEd AppsTM Certified Leader Program

 

 

 

 

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1EdTech, for me, is about the network. I’m a bridge between technology and academic services for our district, and there are very few people in my state who are positioned that way. Many times, IT is on the maintenance side and instructional technology is on the academic side. I love being that bridge, and 1EdTech allows me to talk to people in a similar position, with similar challenges that we can discuss.

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Jessica Preisig
Assistant Superintendent for Technology Services
School District of Pickens County

Western Governors University

Western Governors University is an online university dedicated to making higher education accessible for as many people as possible. Everything we do at WGU is aimed at increasing accessibility and equitable opportunity for each student, regardless of their background, motivations, or life situation.

WGU’s focus has helped produce success for over 350,000 WGU graduates by making direct ties between what a student learns at the university and how that knowledge can be valuable in the workplace, through verifiable digital credentials.

Following 1EdTech Open Badge standards provides students with greater transparency between the skills they are achieving in their credential program and how those skills align with employer demand.

Together We Align Learning to Workforce Needs
TrustEd Microcredential Coalition

 

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Credential transparency is critical for ensuring trust and value. WGU leverages the Open Badge standard to provide meaningful visibility into every skills-based credential. We are laser focused on providing students with the skills they need and employers with the credentials they trust.

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Dr. Sarah DeMark
Vice Provost
Western Governors University

 


 

1EdTech has done a phenomenal job of understanding what information is out there, that goes beyond the traditional transcript, and that can be captured to give a better picture of who a person is, in a way that employers can understand and verify it.

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Frank Cicio
CEO
IQ4

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iQ4 is committed to empowering learners with their own data to fully enable their capability and potential while also filling employment gaps in the workforce.

The company’s Achievement Wallet translates digital credentials into workforce skills, career pathways, and jobs. Leveraging 1EdTech’s Open Badges standard allows the wallet and the credentials inside it to go farther by scaling the capability and making them interoperable across current and future systems. 

Three Pillars of the 1EdTech Digital Credentials Ecosystem
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By working collaboratively with the brightest minds in education and technology, we're making an impact on all learners. Join the 1EdTech community today because together, we go forward faster.

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Expanding the Value and Usability of Digital Credentials

Go beyond the traditional transcript with rapidly evolving educational credentials that meet the needs of all learners.

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The Whole Learner Every Step of the Way

Become a leader in digital credentials, and collaborate with 1EdTech members as we develop and leverage meaningful and verifiable credentials to increase learner achievement, opportunity and employment.

It's just one of our six key workstreams helping shape the future for K-12, higher education, and corporate education.

Digital Credentials

Show the whole learner at every step of their journey and make lifelong achievements more shareable and secure without custom integrations with the Comprehensive Learner Record Standard™ (CLR Standard™), Open Badges, and Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange® (CASE®).

 

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Empowering Tomorrow’s Learners Starts With an Open Ecosystem

Unlock the unlimited possibilities with 1EdTech’s six key workstreams, and help us lead the way to an open, innovative and trusted educational technology ecosystem. Together, we power learner potential.
 

TrustEd Apps Vetting   |   Learning Platforms, Apps, and Tools

Curriculum Innovation and Teaching Strategies   |   Integrated Assessment

Learning Data and Analytics   |   Digital Credentials

 

 

 

 

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