IBL News | New York
The 1EdTech Consortium (1EdTech) released the CLR Standard 2.0, its latest innovation in digital credential technology, during the organization’s Digital Credentials Summit, which took place this month in Phoenix, Arizona.
“With CLR Standard 2.0, we are making credentials more secure, portable, and universally verifiable, we are ensuring that every learner has the ability to own and share their achievements with confidence,” said Curtiss Barnes, CEO of 1EdTech.
The CLR Standard establishes a common way to package credential records in formal and informal learning, regardless of who provides them to the learner.
CLR 2.0 improves portability and verifiability, giving the earner control of their credentials by using rich human-readable and machine-verifiable metadata.
CLR 2.0 is also designed as Verifiable Credentials (VCs), as defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and aligns with 1EdTech’s Open Badges 3.0 standard, making it even easier to share credentials between wallets.
According to a new 1EdTech report, “Six Steps for a Successful Credentialing Program: A Case Study Review,” credentialing platforms that adhere to open standards are one of the six steps successful credentialing programs worldwide recommend.
