Educational Credentialing System
Empower Learners to showcase their competencies
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 (VbCs) 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 (VbCs)?
Why do they matter?
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.
1. Cross-border Recognition
► 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 recognised 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.
2. Precise Validation
► 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.
3. Attested Accreditation
► 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 (VbCs) 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.
Learner-centred Accreditation Ecosystem
Credentialing Technologies Explained
Traditional certification systems lack standardisation, interoperability, and portability, resulting in limited transparency and trustworthiness. This makes it challenging to manage and verify credentials. However, by adopting DLT and complying with EU regulations and specifications, holders can exercise complete control and self-sovereignty of the credentials. They can flexibly present their identity data and credentials in different contexts, and have them verified securely and efficiently across borders.
Why do we use Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)?
DLT is a digital technology that allows multiple participants, as a network of nodes, to maintain a decentralised and shared record of data using cryptography. Once data is added to the ledger, it is hashed and synchronised across the network using mechanisms like consensus, making it almost impossible to alter or delete data on any node. This ensures the immutability of the ledger, establishing trust among all participants in the network.
With data authenticity ensured, DLT eliminates the need to rely on the issuer’s response, which can be time-consuming and expensive. Instead, verification can be done simply by checking the ledger anytime and anywhere. This makes identity presentation and data verification more secure, efficient, and resilients.
What is EU Digital Identity (EUDI) Wallet?
It is an application that securely stores, shares, and verifies identity information (e.g. academic certificate, driving license) across Europe. EUDI wallet complies with EU regulations, including GDPR, eIDAS, and global standards like W3C, ensuring the privacy, security, and portability of the holder’s personal and identity data such as VbCs.
In addition to complying with regulations and standards, our wallet aligns with the EU’s EBSI specifications and DLT infrastructure. This allows holders to easily manage and share their VbCs, while maintaining complete control and self-sovereignty over their data. Holders can choose who to share their data with and for what purposes, providing greater autonomy and flexibility.
Key Benefits to Holders
Security and Authenticity
DLT ensures all data are cryptographically secured to protect against fraud and data breaches. Its encryption mechanism enables holders to effectively prove the authenticity and provenance of their VbCs and data.
Privacy and Self-Sovereignty
VbCs safeguard holders’ privacy by complying with GDPR and not storing any personal data on registries. Holders have greater autonomy and flexibility in actively proving competencies through combinations of VbCs.
Control and Ownership
EUDI wallet gives holders complete control over how, when, and with whom to disclose their personal information. With no vendor lock-in, holders can freely move their VbCs and data across platforms for seamless portability.
About ValueCred
ValuesCred is a startup with a clear mission: to empower individuals with full control of their data for better development. In a data-driven era, data is often used to explain things, but not our identity, which indeed can be defined by our personal, social, and behavioural data. Individuals have faced numerous limitations in using data to present their unique identities in various contexts, especially in the job market, where is competitive for winning the game.
In addition to job qualifications, Values and Skills are the key attributes that can prove someone right fit for a position, these attributes data make Values-based Credentials (VbCs) happen. By collecting and accumulating such credentials from schools, learners or job seekers can have the autonomy to use their data with VbCs to outstand unique identities among candidates, leading to more control over their personal and career development anywhere.
Founder of ValueCred
“Data represents our reality, also envisions our possibilities”
As a data science specialist and co-founder of ValuesCred, Kel firmly believes in data can propel scientific advancement through appropriate approaches and models to address societal challenges and reshape our society. From his work in media and marketing agencies, Kel realises inadequate positioning could hinder the realization of one’s full potential, combined with his unique perspective on the transformative power of data, Kel initiates ValuesCred and invite colleagues with shared aspirations and diverse expertise to reach this end.
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What are Values-based Credentials (VbCs)?
Why do they matter?
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.
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► 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 recognised 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.
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► 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.
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► 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.
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
About ValueCred
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Why we do it?
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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
“Data represents our reality, also envisions our possibilities”
In addition to job qualifications, Values and Skills are the key attributes that can prove someone right fit for a position, these attributes data make Values-based Credentials (VbCs) happen. By collecting and accumulating such credentials from schools, learners or job seekers can have the autonomy to use their data with VbCs to outstand unique identities among candidates, leading to more control over their personal and career development anywhere
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
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.