In today’s rapidly changing world, education can no longer stop at delivering degrees; it must empower learners to demonstrate what they can actually do. Employers are searching for evidence of capability, creativity, and collaboration, not just credentials printed on paper.
That’s where Lern2Ern comes in.
As a Student Ownership Platform for Skills Development and Career Readiness, Lern2Ern bridges the gap between education and employment by giving learners control over their intellectual property, verified recognition of their skills, and a global record of their growth, powered by the SOLO Network, the world’s first blockchain-based system for verifiable learning and employment records.
Reimagining Learning Around Ownership
The foundation of Lern2Ern lies in one transformative idea: students should own what they create. Every piece of work, every project, every prototype that a learner builds is their intellectual property, and it deserves to be recognized and preserved.
Through the integration with SOLO, Lern2Ern ensures that every authentic learning experience is captured as a verifiable credential. These credentials don’t just list grades or participation; they record real evidence of skill, such as problem-solving outcomes, innovation projects, and team contributions.
This system marks a shift from traditional education models, where achievements are often locked away in institutional systems, to one where learners own, control, and share their records. It’s a shift from compliance to capability, from grades to growth.
Bridging the Education-Employment Divide
The global workforce is undergoing seismic shifts. Automation, artificial intelligence, and the green economy are creating new job categories faster than universities can design degrees for them. Employers need professionals who can adapt, think critically, and collaborate across contexts.
Lern2Ern addresses this challenge through authentic problem-based learning. Instead of theoretical exercises, students engage with real-world challenges in sustainability, community development, and digital transformation. They design solutions for pressing social and environmental issues; learning to think systemically, communicate effectively, and make decisions that matter.
Each of these experiences is validated through SOLO’s Learning Employment Records (LERs), which provide blockchain-secured, tamper-proof proof of competence. Employers reviewing a student’s portfolio on Lern2Ern can see what the learner did, how they did it, and what impact it created. This leaps from learning to earning, both transparent and trusted.
Building Cumulative, Portable Career Capital
Education is no longer a one-time phase; it’s a lifelong journey. With Lern2Ern, learners begin building their career capital as early as age 13, documenting each milestone as they progress through school, university, and into employment.
Each project or credential earned becomes a building block in a cumulative portfolio, verified by SOLO. Whether a learner is applying to a new university, switching careers, or collaborating across borders, their credentials remain valid, secure, and instantly verifiable anywhere in the world.
This portability matters in a globalized world where skills—not degrees—are the universal language of opportunity. SOLO’s blockchain infrastructure ensures that a credential earned in Doha or Delhi carries the same trust and recognition in Berlin or Boston.
Human-Centered Skills for the Future of Work
While technology evolves rapidly, the skills that make humans uniquely valuable, creativity, critical thinking, empathy, collaboration, and judgment, remain at the core of employability. Lern2Ern’s pedagogy, co-created with educators and students, focuses on developing these human-centered capabilities alongside technical literacy.
For example, a student might design a digital sustainability campaign, collaborate on a green innovation prototype, or analyze data to solve a local problem. Each task integrates thinking, doing, and reflection, mirroring the complexity of real work environments. SOLO then records these as verifiable digital achievements, ensuring the evidence of skill development is both authentic and accessible.
By combining authentic learning with verifiable recognition, Lern2Ern helps students not just gain skills, but prove them with confidence.
A Decade of Co-Creation
Lern2Ern is not a top-down platform imposed on educators; it’s a movement built from classrooms upward. Over a decade of experimentation, teachers, students, and employers have worked hand in hand to shape its model.
- Educators co-developed methodologies that bring project-based learning to life.
- Students designed peer validation systems that ensure fairness and credibility.
- Employers provided authentic challenges and recognition, creating a direct bridge between learning and hiring.
This collaborative DNA aligns seamlessly with the SOLO Network’s principles of transparency, decentralization, and trust, turning education into a shared ecosystem rather than a one-way transaction.
Recognition and Impact
Lern2Ern’s pioneering approach has been recognized globally:
- QS Reimagine Education Bronze Award (2021) for its Bootstrapping Checklist methodology.
- QS Reimagine Education Shortlist (2025) for Nurturing Employability.
Beyond awards, the impact is visible in how learners present themselves: not as degree holders, but as evidence-backed contributors ready for the future of work. Their SOLO-powered portfolios tell stories of initiative, creativity, and authentic learning, stories that employers trust.
Partnership Opportunities: Scaling Student Ownership
Lern2Ern invites educational institutions, governments, and employers to become part of this transformation. Partnership opportunities include:
- Piloting the platform in schools and universities to embed ownership principles.
- Integrating SOLO credentialing into existing learning management systems.
- Co-creating industry-relevant challenges to ensure skills meet real market needs.
- Developing regional and national standards for blockchain-verified credentials.
- Documenting and sharing effective practices to scale authentic skills development.
Through these collaborations, Lern2Ern and SOLO are laying the groundwork for a global skills ecosystem where learning is meaningful, credentials are trusted, and every learner owns their path to success.
Pathway Model: Connecting Learning, Credentials, and Careers
Beyond individual projects, Lern2Ern brings these experiences together into structured learning-to-earning pathways. Each pathway connects learning, verified credentials, live projects, and real-world job opportunities into a continuous career journey.
Students begin by acquiring foundational skills, apply them in authentic challenges, and earn SOLO-verified credentials for their achievements. These credentials form the building blocks of a career pathway, a dynamic roadmap that evolves as learners take on new roles and responsibilities.
This pathway model enables learners to visualize how every project, credential, and internship contributes to their broader career story. It transforms education into a living journey where learning, doing, and earning are seamlessly integrated, empowering students to take ownership of their career trajectories.
The Future: From Learning to Earning, Authentically
In essence, Lern2Ern’s integration with SOLO represents more than a technological innovation; it’s a philosophical shift. It redefines education as a living portfolio of verified experiences, where learners are active agents, not passive recipients.
By combining student ownership, authentic learning, and verifiable credentials, Lern2Ern provides a blueprint for education systems worldwide: one where every learner can say, “I built this, I own this, and I can prove it.”
