2023 CONSENSUS EDTECH AWARDS

The 2023 Consensus EdTech Awards were presented by Hon. Ed Husic, Minister for Industry & Science on 24th May in Sydney.

WINNER

Digital Credentialing Technology from Learning Vault

From left: Hon. Ed Husic, Tony Birrell & Michael Evans of Learning Vault, Julian Day, founder Consensus.

Description

Learning Vault is a Credentials-as-a-Service platform that offers digital credentialing, badging, and certification solutions for various entities such as institutions, training providers, employers, industry associations, and governments. It is a comprehensive platform that covers the entire process of creating, delivering, accrediting, awarding, and verifying digital credentials.

The platform is built on a robust technology infrastructure that enables Organisations and institutions to issue secure and verifiable digital credentials, badges, or certificates. These credentials contain rich metadata, making them machine-readable objects that provide transparency and critical information about the recipient’s achievements, skills, knowledge levels, subjects undertaken, and marks received. Learning Vault credentials are based on open, global standards, allowing them to be verified in real-time, shared across multiple social media channels, and stored in other applications or platforms.

Learning Vault offers several capabilities within its credential platform. It ensures the security and tamper-proof nature of digital credentials by embedding unique encrypted data and storing them on secure servers. The platform also provides flexibility and personalisation options, allowing issuing authorities to customise the visual aspects, metadata, links, attachments, skills descriptors, and other components of their digital credentials.

Verifiability is a core feature of Learning Vault. The platform enables real-time verification of metadata, ensuring the authenticity and integrity of the credentials. Recipients can easily share their digital credentials through various channels, and the machine-readable nature of the credentials allows for automated processing in recruitment and job matching systems.

Learning Vault provides extensive control over credential creation, user permissions, and organisation hierarchies. It offers a repository we refer to as a Backpack but is also known as a Digital wallet or passport, where recipients can visualise and display their credentials in a user-friendly format. The Backpack allows for instant sharing across multiple platforms and can be integrated with other applications and systems through APIs.

Judges Citation

“The judges agreed that the Learning Vault’s Credentials-as-a-Service platform is innovative and offers significant opportunities for market growth.

Learning Vault’s groundbreaking digital credentialing, badging and certification architecture is making waves for its pioneering approach to transforming talent acquisition. By seamlessly integrating with global digital certification standards, Learning Vault ensures a robust foundation of machine readability and cross-platform compatibility for digital certification issue, storage, sharing, verification, and retrieval.

In an era where traditional qualifications often pose challenges of verification and interpretation, Learning Vault’s digital credentials provide an innovative solution. These credentials empower individuals to showcase their skills and achievements securely, surpassing the limitations of conventional paper-based documentation.

The judges recognised the value chain gains in Learning Vault’s approach of working with the student management system providers to enable them, as the source of truth on qualifications, to drive the issuing of the digital credentials as part of the students’ journey.

The judges were impressed with Learning Vault’s approach to the portability and shareability of digital credentials. Candidates wield control over who accesses their credentials, streamlining the sharing process across various platforms.

Real-time authentication bolsters the integrity of the presented qualifications, ensuring trust and transparency throughout the talent acquisition process.

In summary, Learning Vault’s digital credentialing architecture redefines talent acquisition paradigms by offering secure, machine-readable, and transparent credentials. The innovative features, including QVAULT and other digital wallet integration and skill descriptor referencing, underscore Learning Vault’s commitment to revolutionising the landscape of skills verification and candidate evaluation”.

Our thanks go to Dentons Lawyers for hosting the judging, and to the Judges that participated in the final evaluation: