Success Stories
We Wrote the Book on Learning and Employment Records (LER’s). Literally.
AACRAO LER Accelerator
When a national coalition needed an LER curriculum, they called MCM.
The LER Accelerator — a coalition of 13 national higher-education associations — set out to move Learning and Employment Records from momentum to action across the country. To do that, records professionals and administrators needed more than principles. They needed an authoritative, well-researched source of truth.
AACRAO commissioned Micro-credential Multiverse to author the canonical national LER curriculum — From Records to Recognition — a complete course that turns national strategy into practice for the people who build and steward institutional records.
Inside the Curriculum
A national curriculum, built with depth and designed for action.
From Records to Recognition is not a white paper. It is a complete instructional-design product that helps records professionals and administrators understand, evaluate, and build Learning and Employment Records with rigor.
Course architecture
6Modules moving from national context to governance and interoperability.
Research foundation
59Cited references grounding the course in field research, standards, and national practice.
Implementation toolkit
37Key resources learners can return to as they design, evaluate, and steward LER work.
Standards literacy
5Interoperability standards translated into practical institutional decisions.
Built as a course, not a briefing.
The curriculum pairs conceptual grounding with practical learning supports records professionals can use to move from understanding to implementation.The Deliverable
From Records to Recognition: the canonical LER curriculum.
AACRAO commissioned Micro-credential Multiverse to author the national curriculum for the LER Accelerator — a complete instructional-design product that helps records professionals and institutional administrators learn the decisions behind trusted Learning and Employment Records.
Built as a course, not a white paper
The curriculum combines learning objectives, reflection questions, design checklists, case examples, cited research, and implementation resources so participants can move from field awareness to institutional action.
Canonical Curriculum
From Records to Recognition
Introduction to Learning and Employment Records
Six Learning Modules
A learning arc from field context to implementation decisions.
The curriculum does not treat LERs as a technology topic alone. It helps participants understand why Learning and Employment Records are emerging, what institutions must decide, and how governance, integrity, and interoperability determine whether learner records can be trusted and used.
01
Why Innovative Credentials Are Emerging
Frames the forces pushing institutions beyond traditional records: skills-based hiring, learner mobility, workforce alignment, and the need for clearer evidence of learning.
02
Institutional Purpose in Issuance
Helps teams clarify why they issue credentials, who they serve, what value the record creates, and how credentials connect to learner, employer, and institutional goals.
03
AACRAO’s History with CSRs, CLRs, and LERs
Places LERs inside the evolution of student records, comprehensive learner records, and the registrar’s role in trusted recognition.
04
Core Definitions, Credential Hierarchy, and Process
Establishes the language institutions need before implementation: credential types, hierarchy, quality expectations, review processes, and decision points.
05
The Four Pillars of Record Integrity
Centers the trust layer: integrity, structure, transparency, and trust — the conditions that make learner records meaningful beyond the issuing institution.
06
From Governance to Interoperability
Connects policy and practice to standards decisions, including Open Badges, CLR, CTDL, Verifiable Credentials, and LER interoperability.
The practical takeaway
The course teaches the decisions behind the record.
It does not simply tell institutions to “launch an LER.” It teaches them how to make the underlying decisions that determine whether an LER can be governed, trusted, issued, interpreted, and used.
Why MCM
The right author for the problems AACRAO needed to solve.
AACRAO did not need a vendor explanation of Learning and Employment Records. It needed a curriculum that could help the field understand the work, make better decisions, and move from national momentum to institutional practice.
The problem set
For AACRAO
Turn national LER momentum into teachable curriculum.
The Accelerator needed more than principles and enthusiasm. It needed a rigorous learning experience records professionals could use to understand the why, what, and how of trusted learner records.
For the cohort
Create a shared language before implementation begins.
Participating institutions needed a common foundation for definitions, credential hierarchy, record integrity, governance, and interoperability — so project teams could move with more clarity.
For the field
Separate durable practice from vendor-driven noise.
Colleges and systems needed vendor-neutral guidance that clarified the institutional decisions behind LERs — not a product pitch dressed up as field education.
Third-Party Validation
Independent recognition of the MCM approach.
The LER Accelerator selected 25 projects for its inaugural national cohort. Four of those projects are former MCM clients — a strong signal that outside organizations see value in the kind of credentialing and learner record work we help clients build.
Inaugural LER Accelerator cohort
Competitively selected cohort projects are MCM clients.
Why this matters
Independent validation matters.
MCM did not select these projects, and our client relationships did not cause their selection. That is what makes this meaningful. Independent organizations recognized work that reflects MCM’s approach: strong governance, clear credential strategy, interoperability, and learner records designed for real use.
Success Story: Texas
Alamo Colleges District
Part of the Texas network MCM supported to advance micro-credentials, learner mobility, and shared credential strategy.
Read the Texas story →Success Story: Texas
Dallas College
A large community college partner bringing Texas micro-credential work into the national LER conversation.
Read the Texas story →Success Story: Georgia
Technical College System of Georgia
A statewide credentialing ecosystem with scale, evaluation, and national visibility.
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Northern Michigan University
A skills and learner record project connecting programs, credentials, and student opportunity.
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