December 21, 2023
Duklas Cornerstone Consulting is thrilled to join the celebration of MyCreds’TM third birthday. This milestone marks a total of six years across a span of a decade in our journey helping the Canadian higher education community create this incredible network. We take immense pride in playing a lead founding role in creating and growing MyCredsTM as a support to learners and the higher education community and have been honoured to partner with national associations like ARUCC and PCCAT and service providers such as Digitary, and MATTR, each of whom are world leaders in the field of credential exchange.
DCC is proud to have been both an original volunteer founder starting in 2014 and subsequently, the project lead for creating MyCreds. We have played an instrumental role at every stage, including well before it came into being, by providing extensive higher education and systems expertise, overall program management, research, broadband consultation expertise, communications, finance and many other operational supports. Today, MyCreds is supporting 30%+ of the Canadian postsecondary audience, along with high school learners, apprentices, regulatory bodies and government partners. And we have achieved this with a team that is smaller than 15 full-time people. MyCreds is delivering online and virtual digital wallets to more than a million students across Canada and achieving returns on investment of 700%+ to the higher education sector through savings to postsecondary institutions and learners. Our work and collaboration have been characterized by passionate resolve focused on making real change, shared values, a commitment to excellence, and delivering a positive impact for citizens at significant scale.
Sample DCC contributions to MyCredsTM:
DCC has been responsible for identifying and capturing project support and grant funding in the millions of dollars and leading large scale innovative interoperability projects for MyCreds with organizations such as Interac, the Ontario government which involved delivering Ontario’s first virtual skills passport initiative, the federal treasury board, and many others.
Joanne Duklas won an international award for her work on MyCreds and her contributions to the digitization ecosystem from both the Netherlands based Groningen Declaration Network and the American based Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council (PESC). DCC is further proud that MyCreds won an international award for advancing student mobility from PESC.
As we look towards the future, Duklas Cornerstone Consulting remains committed to innovation, positive change, and contributing to the continued success of MyCredsTM, the higher education community, learner mobility and access, and the international digital ecosystem. With the appointment of Joanne Duklas as the Executive Director of the Groningen Declaration Network in the Netherlands in fall 2022, the team continues its work to evolve international supports for learners. We are excited to help MyCreds’s first inaugural executive director, Jodi Tavares, continue to move the Canadian Network’s story forward and join the higher education community in celebrating its third birthday.
by Joanne Duklas