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Wellspring

Wellspring, a multi-phase project sponsored and led by IMS Global Learning Consortium, is focused on advancing the education-to-employment digital ecosystem by improving the information flow between candidates’ competency-based learner records and employers’ skills-based talent systems through the use of open technology standards.

Overview

The outcomes of the technology system connections will allow for 1) individuals to find jobs aligned to expertise and skills and 2) employers to better identify aligned talent for high need job roles through these direct outcomes:

  • Educational organizations document academic credentials that align with targeted job positions and follow open standards for data interoperability
  • Employers search and find the best candidates based on verifiable digital credentials
  • Learners use verifiable credentials to apply and qualify for jobs in employers’ applicant tracking systems

 

The Challenge

The first phase of this work, being facilitated in partnership with Education Design Lab and Council for Adult and Continuing Education (CAEL), targets the development of shared educator-employer competency frameworks. These frameworks serve as foundational use cases to establish the competency structures that trigger the recording of what learners know and can do, aligned to specific job roles in industry. This process establishes the required connecting bridges, not just between education-employer organizations, but also between the learner and the necessary skills for specific job roles.

The Goal

Upon completion of the credential and industry competency frameworks, the competency frameworks will be published in the free IMS CASE Network to be maintained by the participating organizations.  These exemplars will be shared and utilized as learning elements to demonstrate the CASE open standard that when implemented will be able to contribute to learner managed and controlled records.  These records can then be shared by the learner to employers seeking particular skills, and employers can search or discover potential employees based upon the verifiable skills that have been made public in their records.

Funded By

IMS Global Learning Consortium

Primary Audience

College/Universities + Employer Partners, Ecosystem Designers

Project Length

September 1, 2019 - August 1, 2020

Cohort Participants

Excelsior College

Energy Providers Coalition for Education

Xcel Energy

Portland State University

Standard Insurance Company

St. Charles Health System 

Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity

News + Events

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