Your institution is on its way to becoming Blockchained! Do not worry. It is indeed a good thing.

Blockchain gives a real advantage and helps academic institutions go beyond the current structure of colleges and universities. 

So, what does Blockchain brings to Higher Education that doesn’t exist today? Trust and Mobility!

The relevance to universities may not be immediately clear, but blockchain can be used in academic institutions because this technology is a useful way to reduce administrative costs and increase certification security. But even more ambitious, Blockchain will transform higher education and help establish a system for academicians to directly check students’ knowledge and credentials. It's about using the technology to create a secure, trusted and publicly available catalog of academic degrees in which community colleges and universities ratify academic credentials.

Blockchain can be most directly used in higher education to eliminate frictional losses for current and former student Single Sign On (SSO) that they can access their learning data and send it from one institution to another. If a student visited several schools, especially if she did not get a reference, a blockchain for learning would allow a coherent view of her learning (e.g. grades obtained from courses from several institutions).  Knowing the stress students experience when transferring points, the value of simply collecting learning records in a safe place to which the student has direct access can partially alleviate the pain.

It is no surprise then that Blockchain is added to the list of new technological opportunities that academic institutions will strive for in the coming years. There is no doubt that the courses that teach the required programming skills in Blockchain are important, but technology is a unique challenge for education because it connects with so many areas of business and technology, including politics, law, trade, transactions, intellectual property rights, cryptography, and artificial intelligence.

When a student graduates, she has many proven resources that demonstrate skills, competencies, and skills in their area of ​​interest. In the case of the Admissions Division, one of the key tasks of Blockchain technology is storing and registering forms and documents, checking some of these elements and verifying identity. Blockchain would certainly help avoid recent recruitment scandals

The qualifications and even the reputation of higher education institutions are rooted in its effectiveness as an educational institution. When universities and colleges are seen as places where learning is worse than other models, or worse, as places where learning is limited and overlooked, the role of the campus experience and the qualifications themselves are undermined.