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Advancing Next Generation Standards for Digital Credential Sharing

ARUCC MyCreds™ recognizes that the demand for advancements in technology never sleeps! MyCreds™ is now fully engaged in expanding to adopt next generation digital sharing technology to support the growing micro-credentials offered by Canadian post-secondary institutions. 

MyCreds™ is well positioned to harness the latest technological developments to ensure a seamless experience for the network’s stakeholders – from issuing to verifying – with learners at the centre. By decentralizing Verifiable Credentials (VCs) and making them truly interoperable, MyCreds™ will keep pace with the world-wide development of self-sovereign identity (SSI) solutions to advance best practices for privacy compliant digital sharing.

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The objective of this ecosystem is to educate and support the development of open standards and encourage broader conversation on standards among the post-secondary community. We welcome you to explore the following pages to expand your learning, to join the ecosystem and community on standards development, and to register for our monthly educative webinars.

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Ontario Virtual Skills Passport (VSP) Showcase Event for Micro-credentials

The Innovation Path

The MyCreds™ innovation path started by enabling the leap from paper to digital and creating a trusted sharing network for academic credentials. It is now on track for the next significant leap. The Virtual Skills Passport pilot project is about expanding the use of MyCreds™ to enable participating institutions to issue learners a digital representation of earned micro-credentials that is downloadable to their mobile phones. Learners will be able to download their micro-credential and add it to a digital universal wallet, enabling a new way to share proof of their completion of micro-credential programs. VC and SSI development will lead to individuals having control over their digital lives and a mechanism to carry their many identifying credentials in one place. 

Why Now?

Because this work is already happening all around us. And the technology will continue to evolve – the ground will always be shifting under our feet. Working together on this now means we can shape the development of this significant leap forward in the world of digital sharing at the ground level for academic networks – in Canada and globally. We are embracing the constantly evolving global credentialing ecosystem that includes a vast range of industries and use-cases.