CLRs allow learners and earners to showcase their many accomplishments through both formal and informal learning opportunities and group those achievements into a single credential that can be easily shared and understood. 1EdTech’s CLR Standard establishes a common way to package those records, regardless of who is providing them to the learner, thereby reducing complexity and expanding possibilities for learners worldwide.

"At 1EdTech, our mission is to unite the education community in building an open, trusted, and innovative foundation for digital credentials that works better for everyone—reducing complexity, accelerating innovation, and expanding possibilities for learners worldwide," said Curtiss Barnes, CEO of 1EdTech.

"At Territorium, we believe that interoperability is key to ensuring learners can seamlessly access and share their achievements across education and employment," said Guillermo Elizondo, CEO and Co-Founder of Territorium.

CLR 2.0 is also designed as Verifiable Credentials (VCs), as defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an international community that develops open standards to ensure the long-term growth of the Web. These standards make the Web more tamper-evident and trustworthy. They are cryptographically signed and tamper-proof, meaning they are secure, and anyone receiving the CLR can trust and verify the information contained within.

The updated CLR also aligns with 1EdTech’s Open Badges 3.0 standard, making it even easier to share credentials between wallets, and is recommended by AACRAO, the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers.

"As a vendor serving a range of higher education customers from US community colleges to international research universities, eLumen must be positioned to help lead efforts toward better interoperability and improved transparency of learning throughout the edtech ecosystem," said Joel Hernandez, Chief Technology Offer for eLumen

Other early adopters of the CLR 2.0 standard are Level Data and SPARK+ Technologies.