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Upcoming Fireside Chat – Fueling Student Success: How LERs and Credential Wallets Drive Career Outcomes and Institutional Growth
Helping students succeed today means more than awarding degrees—it means preparing them to thrive in a skills-based economy.
Across the country, higher education institutions are recognizing the urgent need to more clearly connect education to employment. One significant step forward: Learning and Employment Records (LERs), microcredentials, and digital credential wallets. These tools are helping students organize, showcase, and apply their skills directly to workforce opportunities, and institutions that embrace them are strengthening their role in supporting long-term student success.
In an upcoming fireside chat, Kelvin Bentley, Ph.D., Program Manager of Texas Credentials for the Future at The University of Texas System, and Suzanne Carbonaro, Vice President of Postsecondary Education & Workforce Programs at 1EdTech, will discuss how their organizations are leading this transformation.
Dr. Bentley will highlight how the University of Texas System is integrating industry-recognized microcredentials from partners such as Google, IBM, and Salesforce into undergraduate programs. With the support of a mobile credential wallet powered by Territorium, UT students can now organize their verified credentials and match their skills to real-time job opportunities. This system not only gives learners more control over their career narratives but also helps those from low-earning majors better communicate their value to employers.
Suzanne Carbonaro will provide insight into how 1EdTech is building the open infrastructure needed to power this new education-to-workforce ecosystem. As a key member of the national LER Accelerator, 1EdTech is advancing standards like Open Badges and the Comprehensive Learner Record (CLR). These standards are critical for ensuring learner achievements are portable, interoperable, and aligned with labor market needs.
The conversation will be moderated by Keith Look, Vice President of Education Solutions at Territorium, who will guide the discussion around what it takes to implement these innovations across systems, campuses, and employer networks.
As higher education continues to evolve, tools like Learning Experience Records (LERs) and credential wallets are no longer optional—they are central to building a future where learning seamlessly leads to opportunity.