Online credentials for learning

The system is made up of seven interrelated sectors and groups of stakeholders, anchored to specific functions in the digital credentials environment.

[3] Test-based credentials have gained popularity both in the online market, and in programming and highly technical tasks.

Digital badges can be used as portable and independently verifiable expressions of existing accredited credentials, or used to represent new types of recognition unassociated with traditional quality assurance bodies.

[1] Online certificates are also used by many higher education institutions to dematerialize official diplomas or acquired skills, using blockchain technologies.

Text taken from Level-setting and recognition of learning outcomes: The use of level descriptors in the twenty-first century​, 129-131, Keevey, James, UNESCO.