The Infuse initiative is a collaborative public purpose project designed to democratize access to innovative digital credentials in higher education, particularly supporting institutions and learners with limited resources. It aims to provide an initial, foundational learning and employment record (LER) for millions of learners, giving them a starting point in the world of structured, interoperable digital credentials. Additionally, the project seeks to create an interoperable shared infrastructure that provides access and value to all, while respecting the role of vendors and creating a larger market for them. The process involves converting legacy academic credentials and related data into structured digital credentials via multiple pathways using AI to enrich and infer skills level information, validating the result, verifying the resulting credential(s), and enabling learner access and agency to/over them. This session will explore the concept of Infuse and its current status.
