Verifiable Credential Use Cases In The Education Sector

Traditionally, the education sector has issued paper degrees, transcripts and other academic credentials. While this continues to be a dominant medium, it remains expensive, slow and difficult for learners to share their achievements and assert their claims to knowledge in their lifelong learning journey. 

Technological change over the last twenty years has seen many institutions slowly move to issuing electronic documents, mostly as PDFs. While this begins to alleviate some of the pain points for both institutions and learners, these newer electronic credential formats still fall short of true digital representations.

Read on to learn more about how Verifiable Credentials can be used by education institutions in the long term and how learners, institutions and receivers will benefit as a result.