Parchment Summit: A Conversation on Innovating Credentials

Today, academic credentials share limited information about what graduates know and are able to do.  Parchment and Connecting Credentials National Dialogue – an initiative supported by Lumina Foundation – will bring together a cross-section of leaders and practitioners from higher education, philanthropy and technology for the Parchment Summit, a day-long conversation about innovating academic credentials.

The Summit will be held on Wednesday, February 17, 2016 from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. in Washington D.C. and discussions will foster collaboration between technologists and practitioners and between higher education leaders and employers.  A series of keynotes, panels and workshops will include:

• Keynote Speakers
  • Anthony Carnevale, Georgetown Center for Education and the Workforce
  • Arthur Levine, Woodrow Wilson Foundation
• Panel Discussions
  • The Changing Paradigm of Higher Education’s Role in Career Formation
  • The Credential Ecosystem: Making Sense of Badges, Certificates, Diplomas, ePortfolios
  • The New Language of Credentials – Unbundling and Stacking
  • Ensuring Interoperability and Usability
• Workshops
  • Innovations in the Transcript
  • Credentials as Labor Market Signals
  • Partnership between university and technology partners

Join the credential conversation and register for the free Parchment Summit  today.