Is Blockchain the Future of Academic Credentials?

Except from (The Chronicle of Higher Education)

For academic credentials, the benefits of blockchain technology are obvious. It protects against falsified credentials, and it gives students direct access to their own transcripts, cutting the need to go through a campus registrar. Students and the issuing college are the only parties able to view or share the credentials. Had ITT Tech’s records existed on a blockchain technology, the displaced students could have still obtained their credentials instead of being at the mercy of a sudden bankruptcy.

Enabling students to own their credentials helps “reduce barriers for students to move from high school to college, and from college to employment,” says Kutty, now CEO of GreenLight Credentials, which created a blockchain-based credential app that the Dallas college district uses.

More than 600 colleges have accepted student transcripts through GreenLight since its introduction in July, but only a handful of Texas-based institutions — high school districts, community colleges, and four-year institutions — store student records using the app.

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