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…
From Prototype to Public Beta: Gobekli Shares an Early TalentPass at the U.S. Chamber Foundation
In 2023, Gobekli shared an early Universal Talent Passport prototype and insights from focus groups with students, job seekers, and community members. See how that research helped shape today’s TalentPass and Gobekli’s broader Human Intelligence Layer.
Microcredentials Need Translation—Not One Universal Taxonomy
Microcredentials emerge from different industries, institutions, cultures, and competency frameworks. Instead of forcing them into one master taxonomy, the ecosystem needs semantic bridges that preserve local meaning while making credentials, skills, and experiences understandable across systems.
People Need Systems of Trust: Why Verifiable Credentials Matter to Universal Talent Passports
Verifiable credentials provide an essential foundation for Universal Talent Passports by preserving the source, integrity, status, and machine-readable meaning of trusted records. But real trust also requires evidence, issuer authority, consent, privacy, transparency, governance, and responsible human judgment.
Why You Should Own and Control Your Talent Data
Your work, learning, credentials, evidence, and growth are scattered across systems built for other organizations. TalentPass gives you a private, portable source of truth you can meaningfully control—while preserving the authority, provenance, privacy, and responsibility surrounding the records it connects.
What Can Be Used as Evidence in a Universal Talent Passport?
Evidence in a Universal Talent Passport can include credentials, work samples, projects, assessments, endorsements, outcomes, publications, media, awards, and reflection. TalentPass connects each artifact to the experience and claim it supports while preserving context, provenance, privacy, and individual control.
How Universal Talent Passports Help Students While They Are Still in University
Universal Talent Passports help students connect courses, projects, campus work, internships, evidence, credentials, relationships, and goals while they are still enrolled. TalentPass gives learners a private foundation for stronger advising, networking, career preparation, and lifelong growth.
How TalentPass Could Strengthen Nurse–Hospital Partnerships
A partnership model connecting nurses’ professional experience with development, mentoring, and organizational support.
How Universal Talent Passports Can Support Better Student Outcomes
Universal Talent Passports can support better student outcomes by helping learners recognize growth, connect learning across experiences, preserve evidence, prepare for advising, build career-ready profiles, and carry trusted records throughout their lives. TalentPass strengthens learner agency without replacing the educators and relationships that make success possible.