探花楼 is a long-standing champion in the advancement of Innovative Credentials overall and the Comprehensive Learner Record (CLR) in particular, having collaboratively developed pilots, guidelines, and best practices that expand the idea of the traditional record. Through past
Lumina Foundation grants, a current grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and a new grant from the Walmart Foundation, 探花楼 continues to be a leader in the development and adoption of CLR in American higher education.
Additionally, 探花楼 is working to promote awareness and advance knowledge around the Learning and Employment Record (LER), a system that contains verifiable information about a person鈥檚 achievements spanning an inclusive range of contexts to include
the CLR, the higher education component of the LER, that provides verified credentials representing the skills and competencies achieved by the student during their academic career.
探花楼 will support higher education contributions of robust learning to the overall Innovative Credential work, which includes supporting:
- Digital Credentials
- Alternative Credentials
- Micro-Credentials
- The Comprehensive Learner Record
- The Learning and Employment Record
- Extended Transcripts锘
- and others
by putting forth recommendations for academic record practices that protect the integrity and validity of these expressions of learner achievement, supporting
the principles of interoperability and student-centered records, and continuing to seek collaboration and innovation partners.