The company announced last week that its Territorium Comprehensive Learner Record, or TerritoriumCLR — an artificial intelligence-powered tool that distills a person’s academic history into a transcript of competencies and skills — will work with Credential Engine to make it easier for students to find available jobs and schools that align with their credentials. The partnership will also give higher education institutions the ability to access TerritoriumCLR and the nonprofit’s credential registry to tailor their educational programs to suit workforce demands and help employers find the most qualified applicants.
TerritoriumCLR, unveiled for U.S. schools and universities last summer, incorporates multiple metrics of student potential, including not only academic performance but also personal interests and co-curricular activities, and it works with a Skills Digital Wallet that can share their CLR with prospective employers.
“It creates a career path for that student to eliminate their gaps in competencies and skills and recommends classes, courses and labs,” Darrell Lane, Territorium's VP of global marketing, told Government Technology last August. “Then as students complete those learning experiences, with the evidence that’s been defined and the rubrics defined by the faculty, those skills go into the Comprehensive Learner Record.”
According to its website, Credential Engine prides itself on its transparency in explaining all potential credentials, such as degrees, licenses, badges and apprenticeships, to help job seekers, students and workers get ahead in their respective careers.
"The disconnect between what students need to learn, what they know upon graduation, and what employers are looking for in candidates has gone on for too long," Territorium CEO Guillermo Elizondo said in a public statement. "Integrating Territorium's rich CLR data with the CTDL and Registry will create a more transparent credential landscape for everyone."
The news release said Territorium showcased a potential use case for its partnership with Credential Engine during the 2022 IMS Digital Credentials Summit in Atlanta, Ga., this week, showing how an institution could use credentials posted in the Credential Engine registry to inform curricular revisions based on required skills and competencies in live job postings.
