Values-based Credentials Management System
Trusted Accreditation Ecosystem for Learners, Educators, and Employers
Importance of Values and Skills Accreditation
Skills are a “dynamic currency” for adapting to a fast-changing world. Accrediting learning outcomes such as Values and Skills across borders through digital credentialing is crucial to promoting lifelong learning, helping individuals stay competitive and succeed in education and employment.
⇒ Read more: UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning
Accredit Transversal Skills
To recognise and validate a broader range of learning outcomes in the era of lifelong learning, the EU and UNESCO suggest a digital credential ecosystem model for validating skills without borders. Digital credentials should be issued in a verifiable format that guarantees data authenticity and cross-border interoperability. This is enabled by leveraging Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and open technical standards.
Credential System for Educators
ValueCred offers educators a Credential Issuance Portal to issue Values-based Credentials with ease, while complying with common standards and leveraging global ecosystems powered by DLT. Our system provides great flexibility and security, allowing educators to accredit learners’ soft skills under the existing curricula.
Our Learning Outcome Analytics enables educators to track and monitor learners’ progress and accomplishments in acquiring transversal Values and Skills. This helps identify areas where learners may need additional assistance and proactively support them in achieving their learning goals and objectives.
What are Values-based Credentials?
Why do they matter?
Values-based Credentials (VbCs) complement the existing qualification frameworks in recognising Values and Skills, which may not be apparent on a transcript or resume. These credentials offer learners a more holistic yet detailed proof of their competencies, and empower them with greater control and flexibility in showcasing their qualifications in personal and professional development
is a type of Micro-Credentials, which is recommended by the EU to accredit a learner’s short-term learning outcomes. They provide a flexible and targeted way for learners to develop the knowledge, skills, and competencies they need to progress. As these credentials are digitally verifiable and cryptographically proven for authenticity, they are trusted across borders.
- Cultivate Autonomy
VbCs broaden the recognition of competencies and offer learners greater flexibility and ownership over their learning paths. They can be earned and recognized internationally, and learners can control how to showcase their credentials. This grants learners greater autonomy and creates more opportunities for them to pursue their educational and career goals globally.
accredit the mastery of Values and Skills. As defined by the OECD‘s “Embedding Values in Curriculum”, the nine constructs embedded in curriculum across different subject areas and countries provide a solid foundation to standardise data models. This enables consistency in recognising and validating competencies at a granular level, facilitating talent matching in HR.
- Enhance Competence
VbCs establish a universal language of competencies, effectively communicating learners’ mastery of Values and Skills. By combining VbCs with other credentials, learners can create a more comprehensive profile of their competencies to boost their employability. The ability to stack VbCs makes progress visible, which further motivates learners to pursue their career aspirations.
is awarded to learners when
i) they receive a certain amount of commendations from their peers during group learning activities (mechanism can be introduced by requests), or
ii) they consistently demonstrate exceptional proficiency in specific Values and Skills, earning recommendations from their educators for such competency.
- Foster Relatedness
VbCs promote the development of Values and Skills through active practice, which cultivates a sense of purpose and connection among learners. By earning VbCs through peer commendations and official recommendations, learners feel recognised and motivated to further advance their skills and pursue other credentials, while also being inspired to continue learning throughout life.
Present Proven Skills
To enter today’s workplace, learners must demonstrate not only the requisite skills but also a strong alignment with the company values of prospective employers. Values-based Credentials (VbC) serve as proof of learners’ competencies and pinpoint their mastery of Values and Skills at a granular level. By storing VbCs in an EU digital ID wallet, learners have full control over how to present them flexibly and securely across borders.
Credential Wallet for Learners
With VbCs stored in ValuesCred’s wallet, our Skills Acquisition Analytics would provide personalised feedback on how the learners have mastered their skills. The insights enable learners to reflect on their level of mastery and identify areas for improvement, fostering a self-learning mindset.
In our wallet, learners can create Career Success Portfolios by stacking and combining multiple VbCs with other credentials, to highlight their specific set of Values and Skills that meet the employers’ needs. By presenting tailored portfolios that cater to different job applications, learners can confidently showcase their expertise, enhancing their employability.
Trusted Accreditation Ecosystem
To ensure widespread adoption and compatibility, we build and nurture the ecosystem of values-based credentials. Our framework implements common standards and trusted technology infrastructure, making it efficient and secure to issue, exchange, and verify any of these credentials.
Technology Explained
Why do we use DLT?
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) works by allowing multiple participants (i.e. nodes) as a network to maintain a shared, decentralized record of any form of data using cryptography. Once data is added to the ledger, it has been hashed, and synchronised across the network, making it almost impossible to alter or delete data in any node.
With immutability of the ledger, we no longer have to validate data directly with the issuer. Data verification is now more flexible and efficient, as we can simply check on the ledger anytime, anywhere. Trust is established for all participants on the ledger.
EU Digital Identity (EUDI) wallet is an application enabling holders to store, verify, and share personal information (e.g. identification, address proof, academic credentials) across Europe.
Our Credential Wallet conforms to EU (e.g. EBSI) specifications and its privacy and cyber security regulations, protecting holders’ privacy, and giving them complete control over their VCs and data.
Verifiable Credentials
Secure and Authentic
All VCs are cryptographically secured to prevent fraud and data breaches. DLT and the encryption mechanisms help verifiers to attest to the authenticity and provenance of the credentials and data.
Privacy and Self-Sovereign
In compliance with GDPR, DLT allows data exchange in a privacy-preserving way with no personal data stored on the registries. Through a mix of credentials, holders can flexibly present their identities.
Control and Ownership
Benefits for Youth
Empower autonomy in young generations, demonstrate human values with self-identity to achieve personal goals
Enhance Competence
Soft skills can also be widely accredited, not just cognitive skills. Able to assess what students learnt and how good they are.
Improve Relatedness
Credentials are verified in the education sector and workplace. Offer valid reasons for motivating students to pursue.
Foster Autonomy
Stackable soft-skills credentials in various aspects and levels. Assist students in personal development and self-determination.
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Values-based Credentials Management System
Importance of Values and Skills Accreditation
Skills are a “dynamic currency” for adapting to a fast-changing world. Accrediting learning outcomes such as Values and Skills across borders through digital credentialing is crucial to promoting lifelong learning, helping individuals stay competitive and succeed in education and employment.
⇒ Read more: UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning
Values-based Credentials Management System
Importance of Values and Skills Accreditation
Skills are a “dynamic currency” for adapting to a fast-changing world. Accrediting learning outcomes such as Values and Skills across borders through digital credentialing is crucial to promoting lifelong learning, helping individuals stay competitive and succeed in education and employment.
⇒ Read more: UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning
What are Values-based Credentials?
Why do they matter?
Values-Based Credentials (VbCs) complement the existing qualification frameworks in recognising Values and Skills, which may not be apparent on a transcript or resume. They enhance how learners assess their own competencies, enabling them to better review and plan their learning paths and motivating them to continue learning throughout life. VbCs offer verifiable digital proof of the learner’s mastery of essential competencies, empowering learners to pursue their career aspirations with confidence.
is a type of Micro-Credentials that certify the learning outcomes of short-term learning experiences, as recommended by the EU, it is a flexible, targeted way to help learners develop the competencies they need. Being digitally verifiable, for which authenticity can be cryptographically proved, these credentials can be trusted across borders.
- Support Autonomy
With knowledge, skills and competencies being more comprehensively accredited through various verifiable credentials, learners can now have more control and flexibility over how to demonstrate their qualifications in their personal and professional development.
accredit the mastery of Values and Skills, which consist of nine constructs that are defined and embedded in curriculum across different subject areas and countries (Ref: OECD Embedding Values in Curriculum). Values and Skills, as learning outcomes, are recognised and validated at a granular level through Values-based Credentials.
- Improve Competence
In facilitating the accomplishment of the learner’s aspirations, Values-based Credentials can be stacked and combined with other credentials to form a larger or higher-level credential, which communicates a more complete and detailed profile of a learner’s experiences and competencies.
is awarded to learners when
i) they receive a certain amount of backings from their peers during group learning activities, or
ii) they consistently demonstrate excellent mastery of the Values and Skills and receive recommendations from the educators.
- Encourage Relatedness
Learning does not work in isolation, but in a diverse community of people, places, and ideas. Values-based Credentials are earned through ongoing practice of the Values and Skills and interactions with members of the community, which can be a classroom of students or a business unit in a company.
What are Values-based Credentials?
Why do they matter?
Values-based Credentials complement the existing qualification frameworks in recognising a broader range of learning outcomes – the Values and Skills of a person – that aren’t apparent on a transcript or resume.
is a type of Micro-Credentials that certify the learning outcomes of short-term learning experiences, as recommended by the EU, it is a flexible, targeted way to help learners develop the competencies they need. Being digitally verifiable, for which authenticity can be cryptographically proved, these credentials can be trusted across borders.
- Support Autonomy
With knowledge, skills and competencies being more comprehensively accredited through various verifiable credentials, learners can now have more control and flexibility over how to demonstrate their qualifications in their personal and professional development.
accredit the mastery of Values and Skills, which consist of nine constructs that are defined and embedded in curriculum across different subject areas and countries (Ref: OECD Embedding Values in Curriculum). Values and Skills, as learning outcomes, are recognised and validated at a granular level through Values-based Credentials.
- Improve Competence
In facilitating the accomplishment of the learner’s aspirations, Values-based Credentials can be stacked and combined with other credentials to form a larger or higher-level credential, which communicates a more complete and detailed profile of a learner’s experiences and competencies.
is awarded to learners when
i) they receive a certain amount of backings from their peers during group learning activities, or
ii) they consistently demonstrate excellent mastery of the Values and Skills and receive recommendations from the educators.
- Encourage Relatedness
Learning does not work in isolation, but in a diverse community of people, places, and ideas. Values-based Credentials are earned through ongoing practice of the Values and Skills and interactions with members of the community, which can be a classroom of students or a business unit in a company.