Building the Connective Tissue Between Education and Work
Interoperability is the foundation of workforce development and industry alignment
The future of workforce development depends on education and employment systems that connect.
Learners need to understand and communicate the skills they gain. Training providers need to demonstrate the value of learning. Employers need trusted signals to find people with the right skills.
Technology can connect them, but only when their systems can exchange and understand the same information.
That’s where 1EdTech comes in.
Interoperability standards and infrastructure are the critical enablers of industry-aligned training, learner mobility, skills transparency, and cross-sector coordination. Shared technology and data standards are what let learners navigate flexible, affordable pathways — and let employers find the talent they need, when they need it.
One Set of Standards, Built for Everyone in the Ecosystem
- Education & Training providers issue credentials (Open Badges and CLRs) that carry real weight — verifiable, evidence-backed, and readable by the employers and systems your learners need to reach.
- Workforce agencies align education, workforce development, and labor-market systems (CASE) without locking into a single vendor, so programs, providers, and platforms can finally speak the same language.
- Employers hire on demonstrated skills instead of guesswork, verifying what a credential actually means instead of taking it on faith.
- Workforce technology providers build on open, widely adopted standards instead of one-off integrations — so your platform works with the ecosystem, not around it.
Where This Work Is Happening Now
- Enabling learner and worker mobility through Digital Credentials
- Building the public infrastructure to align the skills economy through CASE Global Ecosystem
- Partnering with NASWA to strengthen the connections between education and state workforce systems
- Laying the foundation for talent marketplaces and other workforce policies
- Developing shared approaches to skills-based hiring, backed by research and cross-sector recommendations
Build the Bridge With Us
Whether you're a training provider ready to issue verifiable digital credentials, a state agency aligning workforce systems, an employer hiring on skills instead of guesswork, or a technology provider building what's next — 1EdTech's open standards are how you get there.
Contact erafal@1edtech.org to learn about membership and get involved
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