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In 2015, The Lumina Foundation awarded AACRAO and NASPA: Association of Student Affairs Professionals $1.7 million to pilot a project to develop models for a more comprehensive student record. 

After the success of the pilot, Lumina awarded the two associations a $1.2 million grant in 2017 to continue their work on the development and adoption of a single Comprehensive Learner Records (CLR) in American higher education.

The CLR seek to capture, record, and communicate learning when and where it happens in a student’s higher education experience. This includes learning outcomes from courses, program and degrees, as well as experience they have outside the classroom that help develop their career ready skills and abilities.

  • News

  • Guidance

  • Testimonials

  • Showcase

News

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Comprehensive Learner Record to the Rescue! Transforming Student Learning to Skills
Jun 1, 2021

The Comprehensive Learner Record doesn't just verify student learning - it can prepare them for the workforce too.

Utilizing Student Data to Inform Classroom Pedagogy
Apr 3, 2021

Annual Meeting presenters discuss the importance of using data to facilitate and expand the faculty-student relationship.

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AACRAO Consulting Partnership - Parchment Award CLR Services
Mar 22, 2021

AACRAO Consulting is partnering with Parchment CLR Services to enable higher education institutions to develop and deploy CLR.

Parchment Award CLR Services - Enabling Higher Education Institutions
Mar 8, 2021

Implementing, designing, and issuing Comprehensive Learn Records (CLR) with Parchment.

AACRAO hosts final showcase on Comprehensive Learner Records
Jan 11, 2021

Join the free virtual event: January 26 and 27.

New CLR Roundtable series kicks off
Jul 9, 2020

An open monthly forum for institutional leaders to discuss and get advice on implementing a comprehensive learner record.

AACRAO recommends IMS Global Learning Consortium digital standard
May 18, 2020

Standardization and interoperability to support students.

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A competency-based educational record: What is standard?
Sep 10, 2019

CBE may not result in grades as we traditionally recognize them, but rather outcomes. How do we record that?

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4 questions about data integration on campus
Jul 20, 2018

Challenges and solutions to creating better records from multiple data sources.

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Credential Engine improves credential transparency, literacy, and decision-making
May 18, 2018

Institutions can create a free account to publish all types of credentials in a common language on a cloud-based Registry, allowing institutions to better understand what sets them apart. Learn how.

What it means to be an "Engaged Scholar in Critical Thinking"
Nov 29, 2016

A pilot student record badge that certifies critical thinking in a community context.

SmartScript: A model competency-based transcript
Nov 23, 2016

UW-Extension and UW Colleges develop comprehensive transcript pilot for CBE degree programs.

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Tracking students' emotional development
Nov 1, 2016

How Dillard University's extended transcript is raising the emotional sophistication of the entire campus.

Documenting and validating learning outside the classroom
Sep 20, 2016

IUPUI Student Records and Student Affairs partnering to formally recognize out-of-classroom learning

The 'gamification' of education
Aug 9, 2016

LaGuardia Community College's digital badging project helps keep students committed to college.

One institution's stellar comprehensive student record
Jul 18, 2016

The tools, infrastructure, training, funding, and steps necessary to implement a holistic learning document.

Assessing and documenting beyond-the-classroom learning
Jun 27, 2016

USC's model cocurricular transcript will help the institution assess the success of experiential learning programs.

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A student record a student can love
Apr 19, 2016

Stanford's pilot comprehensive student record is not for academics.

Growing student records beyond the traditional transcript
Mar 7, 2016

Elon University's visual representation of cocurricular experiences.

Guidance

Reports
  • CLR Phase II Report

    CLR Phase II seeks to expand the understanding and use of CLRs among additional institutions. Download the CLR Phase II Report to learn more.

  • 2020 Guidance on the Review of the Comprehensive Learner Records (CLR) Standard from IMS Global

    Per our review, the CLR Standard from IMS Global is the only comprehensive data standard in place today that meets the objectives of an official institutional learning-focused and comprehensive learner record.

  • 2019 Standardized Components for a Competency-Based Educational Record

    For this second phase of the Lumina grant there were four main goals:

    • Facilitate the scaling of CLRs in up to 150 colleges and universities
    • Standardize the components of a CBE transcript/record with the goal of achieving 10 participating institutions in this second phase
    • Address the data integration issue
    • Leverage existing degree audit technologies to track progress toward learning outcomes/competencies.
    To achieve the goals outlined for the second item above, AACRAO partnered with the expert organization on competency-based education, member institutions of C-BEN, a “network of colleges, organizations, and individuals, dedicated to realizing the potential of competency-based education”.
  • 2018 CLR Data Integration Work Group White Paper

    During the first phase the CLR project, one of the most significant barriers to the development and implementation of the student record was the integration of data to populate the record with data and evidence of learning.

    In the second phase of work, AACRAO assembled the CLR Data Integrations Work Group to identify the barriers to data integration that exist today at most institutions. While some colleges and universities will be able to address these challenges through internal resources and expertise, most lack the infrastructure to address the barriers they may face. This Work Group provided universities with information on moving forward, creating potential guidelines, and working to promote standards that not only benefit students but also employers and other admitting institutions.

  • 2016 Fact Sheet
  • 2016 Comprehensive Student Record Report
  • Credential Engine: Reimagining the Higher Education Ecosystem
  • IMS Global: Enabling an Opportunity Ecosystem

Testimonials

Showcase

Partners

logo-naspaNASPA is the leading association for the advancement, health, and sustainability of the student affairs profession. Our work provides high-quality professional development, advocacy, and research for 15,000 members in all 50 states, 25 countries, and 8 U.S. territories.

 

Lumina_horiz_rgbLumina Foundation is an independent, private foundation committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025. Lumina’s outcomes-based approach focuses on helping to design and build an accessible, responsive and accountable higher education system while fostering a national sense of urgency for action to achieve Goal 2025.

Questions?
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Contact: 
Tom Green
Assoc Executive Director, AACRAO