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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 …

DCC is proud to have led the organization and delivery of the international digitization conference for the Groningen Declaration Network's annual October meeting in Jordan. Joanne Duklas, DCC's founder, serves as the executive director of the GDN, which is an international network dedicated to advancing learner mobility worldwide through academic …

DCC Inc. is pleased to announce the launch of the peer reviewed academic publication Fake Degrees and Fraudulent Credentials in Higher Education. Joanne Duklas is a contributing chapter author. Her work examines the history of digitization in Canada in postsecondary education assessment practice, international exemplars, Conventions and new technology.   …

DCC Inc. is pleased to announce the launch of the Groningen Declaration Network's position statement for the European Commission's definition for micro-credentials. Our president, Joanne Duklas, served as co-editor of this work as part of her continuing volunteer efforts to support global learner mobility. The statement amplifies the importance of …

Burnout and stress go hand in hand with many of the people that the DCC Inc. team talks with in the course of doing business. Here’s an interesting short article on tactics and techniques for avoiding burn out. It is possible to be stressed without collapsing. Click here to read

Micro-credentials, Verifiable Credentials, distributed identities, self-sovereign identity (SSI) and digitization are important discussions in the higher education community today. The threads that weave them together are nested in providing learners greater agency and control over their learner experience. At this session, Joanne moderated a panel of experts from around the …

DCC Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of Joanne Duklas, president of DCC Inc., executive lead for ARUCC MyCreds™ Network, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Digital Identity Lab (ID Lab). This federally incorporated, not-for-profit organization brings together public and private entities to accelerate the …

Joanne Duklas was pleased to represent the Canadian higher education community at the 2021 International Asian Conference on Education and International Development. She along with counterparts from around the world provided expert insights on the activities occurring in the document digitization space in Canada, Australia and Japan. This type of …