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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 …

The DCC Inc. team is pleased to announce the new GDN T.R.U.S.T. Hub, a one-stop compendium of though leader organizations and trusted credential depositories around the world. Official, digitized academic documents come into colleges, universities, government offices, regulatory bodies and employers from many of these credential depositories. It is difficult …

From January through to December 2020, DCC Inc. supported Saskatchewan Polytechnic’s admissions governance committee and academic provostial office with the review, investigation, and crafting of a final report and draft policy to revision its First Qualified, First Admitted policy framework. Joanne Duklas was the primary investigator for this initiative, working …

From June 2019 to spring 2020, the DCC inc. team supported the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada with a national scale project that examined the potential for alignment between regulatory bodies’ practices and frameworks for international credential assessment. The project, funded in part by the Employment and Social Development …