EBSCOed · LER.me
Learning and Employment Record talent marketplaces for community colleges, universities, and states, ready to run inside the systems you already have.
Live in Alabama today · Alabama Talent Triad
413,000+
validated credential completions
4.27M+
validated skills
229,000+
Learning and Employment Record holders
Your institutions already produce the evidence employers are asking for: courses, credentials, work-based learning, and durable skills. An LER talent marketplace is designed to support that work, validate it in open standards, and connect it to jobs, so its value is visible to learners, employers, and policymakers.
02 · The value
A Learning and Employment Record (LER) is a verifiable, learner-owned record of skills and credentials. An LER talent marketplace connects the institutions that issue that evidence with the employers who need it, in a shared, standards-based network.
Learn
Courses, programs, work-based learning
Validate
Skills issued as verifiable credentials
Hold
Learner keeps them in an LER wallet
Connect
Matched to employers and pathways
Tools that sit beside faculty, advisors, and workforce staff rather than asking them to start over.
Turn completions into trusted, machine-readable evidence that travels with the learner.
Link validated skills to open roles, pathways, and the labor market you serve.
03 · Value by audience
Short-term, stackable, workforce-aligned
Degrees that speak in skills
A statewide skills infrastructure
Learners get
A portable record they own, and a clearer path to the next job
Employers get
Verified skills they can search, trust, and hire against
Institutions get
Evidence that their programs are associated with real outcomes
04 · Fits your environment
EBSCOed tools are designed to add to your current systems, not replace them. Choose the role each tool plays, and connect through open standards and a hub-and-spoke architecture that lets each institution keep its own identity.
Add skills, credentials, and matching to your SIS, LMS, or career platform
Connect systems that do not talk today, across campuses, agencies, and employers
Retire a legacy tool only where you choose to, on your timeline
Configured for you, not built from scratch
Learner-owned records; program and state credential registries
Live labor market and credential intelligence
Employer and ATS side; role-level competency library
WIOA-compliant case management and career services
Sector readiness curriculum issued as Open Badges
Assessment across ten clusters plus an AI-at-work strand
Guides learners to ETPL and training programs
O*NET-anchored interest assessment
Public map across O*NET, CIP, NAICS, ESCO, RAPIDS
A shareable career-story pathway for each learner
Map. Align your programs to skills and occupations.
Issue. Switch on verifiable credentials and LER wallets.
Connect. Open the marketplace to employers and partners.
05 · Designed for what comes next
Standards alignment: Open Badges 3.0, CLR 2.0, CTDL, W3C Verifiable Credentials.
06 · Common questions
A Learning and Employment Record is a verifiable, learner-owned record of skills and credentials. The learner keeps it in an LER wallet, and it keeps working for them long after graduation.
An LER talent marketplace connects the institutions that issue evidence of learning with the employers who need it, in a shared, standards-based network. It supports the work of faculty and advisors, validates skills as verifiable credentials, and connects those skills to jobs and pathways.
EBSCOed builds LER talent marketplaces for community colleges, universities, and states. Learners get a portable record they own, employers get verified skills they can search and hire against, and institutions get evidence that their programs are associated with real outcomes.
No. EBSCOed tools are designed to add to your current systems. You choose whether each tool enhances your SIS, LMS, or career platform, bridges systems that do not talk today, or replaces a legacy tool on your timeline.
Credentials are issued in Open Badges 3.0, CLR 2.0, and W3C Verifiable Credentials, and published with CTDL. Skills and programs are aligned to O*NET / SOC, CIP, NAICS, ESCO, RAPIDS, and military codes.
It is live in Alabama through the Alabama Talent Triad, with more than 413,000 validated credential completions, 4.27 million validated skills, and 229,000 Learning and Employment Record holders.
Most partners start in three steps: map programs to skills and occupations, switch on verifiable credentials and LER wallets, then open the marketplace to employers and partners. Contact Greg DiDonato at gdidonato@ebsco.com to begin.