A University-Led Effort

The Digital Credentials Consortium was founded in 2018 by leading universities with expertise in the design of verifiable digital credentials. Together, we are designing an infrastructure for digital credentials of academic achievement.

Digital technology has a profound effect on the way we learn.

A wealth of materials is available to us at all times. We can easily connect with other learners, or communicate with our professors. Increasingly, technology is acting as personal guide that can support our individual interests and pathways. But the way we issue and manage academic credentials has not changed that much - and doesn’t take advantage of the possibilities of digital technology.What would an academic degree look like if it was designed today? Or a professional certificate? Or a certificate for an online course? As the question of trusted verification and authentication of learning and credentials poses itself with renewed urgency we need to rethink the way we recognize and transact with academic credentials.

Our mission is to create a trusted, distributed, and shared infrastructure that will become the standard for issuing, storing, displaying, and verifying academic credentials, digitally.

Our Technology

We are exploring how recent advances credential data standards and cryptographically signed credentials can be used to rethink the way we recognize and transact with academic achievements.Building on earlier efforts by the participating institutions, we are now setting our sights on the design and governance of a technology infrastructure for academic credentials – transforming credentials into tokens of social and human capital that can create new opportunities for participation in education and industry. Our Technology Working Group is currently developing a white paper.

As a learner, this technology will allow you to:

Maintain a compelling and verifiable record of your lifelong learning achievements to share with employers
Receive your credentials digitally and safely
Own all of your credentials forever without having to ask/pay your institution for a transcript ever again
Compile and curate credentials you receive from multiple educational institutions

For institutions, digital verifiable credentials enable you to:

Keep and distribute learner records in a way that is easy, safe, and inexpensive
Remove the risk of identity fraud
Issue multiple credentials to a single learner easily, using the same streamlined process

Explore our projects and open source libraries that demonstrate our technology.

Our Projects

We are working on a number of projects to explore a digital credentials infrastructure.

Learner Credential Wallet - Open source mobile wallet to store learner credentials
Beyond the Wallet - Broadening access and impact of digital credentials
- Credentials to Employment: The Last Mile
- Web Verifier+ (coming soon!)

大学领导的努力

数字证书联盟由在可验证数字证书设计方面具有专业知识的领先大学于 2018 年成立。我们正在共同设计学术成就数字证书的基础设施。

数字技术对我们的学习方式有着深远的影响。

丰富的资料随时可供我们使用。我们可以轻松地与其他学习者联系，或与我们的教授交流。技术越来越多地充当个人指南，可以支持我们的个人兴趣和途径。但我们颁发和管理学历证书的方式并没有太大改变——也没有利用数字技术的可能性。如果今天设计学位，它会是什么样子？还是专业证书？还是在线课程的证书？由于学习和证书的可信验证和认证问题再次变得紧迫，我们需要重新思考我们识别和处理学历证书的方式。

我们的使命是创建一个可信、分布式和共享的基础设施，该基础设施将成为以数字方式发布、存储、显示和验证学历证书的标准。

我们的技术

我们正在探索如何使用最新进展的凭证数据标准和加密签名的凭证来重新思考我们认可和处理学术成就的方式。在参与机构早期努力的基础上，我们现在将目光投向学术证书技术基础设施的设计和治理——将证书转化为社会和人力资本的代币，从而为参与教育和行业创造新的机会。我们的技术工作组目前正在制定一份白皮书。

作为一名学习者，这项技术将使您能够：

保持令人信服和可验证的终身学习成就记录，以便与雇主分享
以数字方式安全地接收您的凭据
永远拥有您的所有证书，而无需再次向您的机构索取/支付成绩单
编译和整理您从多个教育机构收到的证书

对于机构而言，数字可验证凭证使您能够：

以简单、安全和廉价的方式保存和分发学习者记录
消除身份欺诈的风险
使用相同的简化流程，轻松向单个学习者颁发多个证书

探索展示我们技术的项目和开源库。

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我们的项目

我们正在开展多个项目来探索数字证书基础设施。

Learner Credential Wallet
- 用于存储学习者凭证的开源移动钱包
- 安装Learner Credential Wallet App
- 学习者凭证钱包规范
- 移动应用程序 Github 存储库
- 数字证书联盟 Github 存储库
- 项目报告
超越钱包——扩大数字凭证的访问和影响
- 就业证书：最后一英里
- Web Verifier+（即将推出！）