Standards news from 1EdTech Global and updates from 1EdTech Korea.
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1EdTech Korea ran its first joint booth together with its founding members and PowerSchool, a 1EdTech Global member. The booth showed in one place how standards connect everything from class rosters to credentials, and visitors' questions moved from whether products can integrate to whether they can be trusted.
Six organizations including 1EdTech submitted a joint response to the US Department of Labor. Its message comes down to one line: government should steward the data, not build platforms. It raises questions that carry straight over to Korea's discussions of digital badges and learning records.
Reduced to a single sentence, the three days of Learning Impact 2026 come to this: standards are no longer plumbing that lets systems exchange data, but infrastructure on which policy and AI stand.
Three days in Philadelphia marked the shift in digital credentials from building to activation. With 320 million issued worldwide, digital credentials are past the experimental stage. The question that remains is not how to issue a badge, but whether that badge can be discovered, verified and carried from one system to the next.
At the 1EdTech summit held in London in January 2026, Google, Microsoft, the French government and edtech companies all talked about MCP. The question that lingered, though, was not how to open the door but what to show once it is open.
Revisiting a 2022 KERIS issue report in 2026. 1EdTech regrouped its 100-plus standards into six workstreams — an argument for starting from the problem you are trying to solve rather than from the catalog of standards. Four years on, that diagnosis holds more firmly than it did then.
