Based on insight and best practices literature from multiple organizations, including AACRAO & NILOA, we can summarize next steps to implementing CLR at your institution:
- Ensure you have a technology infrastructure that can produce CLR according to your needs
- Establish a project management approach, establish goals, and determine the criteria for determining success of the project
- Pilot a proof of concept
- Form a team to map data
- Perform data mapping to determine what does and what does not go onto CLR
- Establish CLR governance to inform assessment practices
- Create clarity about what the learner has acquired or mastered as it will be translated as claims about knowledge, skills or abilities
- Create a Digital Credential Strategy
- clarify the role digital credentials play in the student lifecycle and job marketplace
- outline the responsibilities of the Office of the Registrar in the development of these credentials
- offer guidelines for the continued success of that development.
