ApprenticeshipUSA connects career seekers, employers and education partners with apprenticeship resources across industries. Users can explore industries to discover how companies have integrated apprenticeship, and this factsheet provides information on Registered Apprenticeship Industry Intermediaries.who can assist with creating Registered Apprenticeship programs in growing industries.

1EdTech, formerly IMS Global Learning Consortium, is a non-profit association that develops open standards that facilitate the private and secure sharing of data between educational software platforms and tools that are in use by institutions and learners for teaching, learning and credentialing. 1EdTech's Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange (CASE) is used to publish machine readable versions of academic standards and workforce competencies. Many state agencies and other organizations freely publish CASE-based open versions of their learning standards through the 1EdTech CASE Network. 1EdTech's Open Badges and Comprehensive Learner Record (CLR) are open standards for learner-centered Learning and Employment Records (LER's).

The Competency-Based Education Network helps postsecondary institutions develop and implement competency-based education programs and works with other workforce and labor market stakeholders to support the use of competency-based approaches to talent development and acquisition. C-BEN works directly with colleges and universities to help them overcome the barriers to fully realized competency-based programs and build capacity around competency-based education.C-BEN maintains a Resource Library of research and best practices for the adoption of competency-based education practices.

The Council for Adult and Experiential Learning’s expertise lies in performing credit-for-prior learning crosswalks in the development of career pathway models. Operating in this space has led CAEL to the viewpoint that prior learning assessments and competency-based education are two sides of the same coin. As such, CAEL is working with Title 1 providers to connect non-credit training programs to higher education.

Credential Engine is a non-profit organization that supports a library of open and transparent information about credentials of all kinds. This library, called the Credential Registry, has detailed information about individual credentials provided by the institutions that offer them, including the knowledge, skills, and abilities they represent. Credentials can be linked to a variety of related records, such as education records, job descriptions, and competency frameworks. The Credential Registry can be accessed online using CE's Credential Finder or by developers using CE's APIs. To support the Credential Registry, Credential Engine also developed the Credential Transparency Description Language (CDTL), a common language to share information about credentials that is both human- and machine-readable.

IEEE SA publishes a wide variety of technical standards, including its latest draft 'Standard Data Model For Sharable Competency Definitions.' More information about the draft standard, including purchasing options, can be found here. 

The National College Transition Network works with the postsecondary education and workforce development communities on a wide range of topics, including professional development and student support services. NCTN recently launched the Personal and Workplace Success Skills Library, which is a curated collection of instructional resources and research. Through this work, the NCTN is building transparency by sharing best practices for education-focused competencies and skills in multiple contextual environments. Utilizing this information, NCTN will recommend resources such as pedagogy research explaining how different pathways impact the brain in different contexts and case studies for reference.

The T3 Innovation Network is an industry led effort to build and promote the adoption of technological infrastructure to facilitate widespread use of skills and competencies as a shared, open, and accessible language in the talent marketplace. Structured as a network of networks, the efforts of workgroups within the T3 Innovation Network include establishing technology-based standards and best practices, such as developing standards-based learning and employment records, or LERs, that document the skills and knowledge acquired by an individual over a lifetime of educational and workforce experience. 

One of the networks comprising the T3 Innovation Network is the Open Competencies Network (OCN). The OCN is a project to create a distributed library of open, human and machine accessible competency frameworks through its Competency Explorer portal.