How LER Standards Enable the Human Intelligence Layer
The Learning and Employment Record ecosystem has spent years making learning and workforce data portable, verifiable, and individually owned. This article explores how that infrastructure can now support a Human Intelligence Layer that helps people, organizations, and AI continuously learn together.
PDF Resumes Are Collapsing the Job Market in the Age of AI—Help Create What’s Next
AI has made polished resumes abundant while verification remains manual, weakening trust across the job market. This article explores how Learning and Employment Records and person-owned talent passports can replace static claims with portable evidence—and restore agency to individuals.
When Learning Becomes Visible, the Value School Must Deliver Becomes Clear
As learning becomes portable and learner-owned, schools must provide more than access to information. This article explores how LERs and Universal Talent Passports can transform prior learning, advising, curriculum, and credentialing—and clarify the value educational institutions must deliver.
Credential Issuance Is Only the Beginning: Helping People Use What They Earn
Credential issuance is only the beginning. Learn how issuers can help people receive, understand, retain, and use digital credentials through trustworthy wallet and passport partnerships—without creating platform lock-in.
LER Adoption Will Be Won or Lost in the User Experience
LER infrastructure will not reach its potential unless people receive enough value to participate. Explore why person-facing applications, organizational workflows, trust, and user experience must evolve together.
The LER Ecosystem: Building Human-Centered Infrastructure for Learning, Work, and Opportunity
The LER ecosystem brings together people, institutions, standards, credentials, technology, and policy to make learning and employment information trusted and portable. Explore what each layer contributes—and why the ecosystem must remain centered on the people it represents.
Envisioning the Future of LERs: Bridging the Gap for Workers in 2024
Originally published September 20, 2023. Updated to reflect the continued development of Learning and Employment Records, TalentPass, and…