Project Infuse

Vision

A trusted, open, interoperable infrastructure that democratizes access to digital credentials—supporting every learner’s lifelong journey while reinforcing the role of higher education in driving equity and learning mobility.

Key Objectives

• Facilitate learning mobility
• Reduce financial & technical barriers
• Expand access and agency
• Enhance credential value
• Align credentials with workforce needs
• Foster innovation

Key Challenges

Despite major advancements in digital credentialing, millions of learners—especially those from under-resourced institutions or with “some college, no degree”—remain excluded from the systems designed to help them. Institutions, too, face challenges in issuing digital credentials at scale: cost, technological readiness, policy hurdles, and pedagogical constraints. Infuse addresses these challenges head-on by:

• Promoting low-/no-cost public infrastructure for digital credentialing
• Enriching credentials with inferred skills and career-aligned data
• Deploying domain-specific AI to align learning with workforce needs
• Providing a foundation for future-facing, learner-centered ecosystems
• Tackling interoperability issues

Key Strategies

Infuse organizes its work around three core functions that support credential lifecycle integration and value:

Ingest: Integrating with existing Student Information Systems (SIS), PDFs, and CSVs to convert academic credentials into structured, digital formats. Infuse will also employ a universal data standard translator to enable interoperability between LER systems using open standards.

Infer: Using artificial intelligence to extract and infer skill-level information from academic data, allowing learners to generate skill narratives that better align with workforce needs. The initiative plans to deploy a domain-specific AI to further enrich credentials quality and relevance over time.

Issue: Empowering learners with access and control over their digital credentials through interoperable LER repositories and wallets. Infuse will enable low-cost, public-good wallet and repository solutions for institutions.