How Blockchain is Helping Dallas Students Tell Their Story
(Excerpt from Forbes)
Working with North Texas school districts, community colleges and universities as well as Dallas County Promise, Kutty assembled a team to build a technology platform that will give students ownership of their academic transcripts and access to stackable, lifelong credentials.
The benefit of a distributed ledger technology like Blockchain is that it allows employers and colleges to have instant verification of a multiple-source transcript. For convenience and security, that beats a paper transcript received in the mail.
Once students grant consent, Greenlight gives employers and colleges the ability to see all credentials in one place. It’s like LinkedIn but with credentials verified by institutions.
Student profiles can host a range of evidences of learning including badges and a portfolio of artifacts. High schools benefit through improved identity management, more efficient paperwork, and data management for state requirements.
Postsecondary institutions can view a digital transcript or download it into their admissions system. They can export contact information into a contact management system to maintain communication with a potential applicant. Greenlight makes sure the transcript is updated as needed.
The big future opportunity is a marketplace where universities can search for applicants by category and credential and invite them to apply (or even offer acceptance based on verified credentials).
“In 20 years, students won’t be applying to colleges; colleges will be recruiting students,” said Kutty.