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Credential Engine, creator of a national directory of degrees, diplomas, digital badges and other nondegree credentials, is teaming up with IMS Global Learning Consortium to try to broaden and speed up the acceptance of digital credentials.
This news is as likely to make higher ed data geeks' hearts skip a beat as it is to make just about everyone else yawn. But it has potential (if down the road) significance for anyone interested in the future of digital postsecondary credentials.
Credential Engine has been steadily building a registry of credentials with the goal of helping employers, students and others better understand the credentials' meaning and value. IMS Global focuses its work on increasing the interoperability of education technologies by getting companies, institutions and others to agree on a common set of standards.
Under the proposed partnership between the two entities, they will align IMS Global’s standards and Credential Engine’s Credential Transparency Description Language, which enables credential issuers to publish data and information on the content and value of credentials to the organization's Credential Registry and the open web.
