Be it educators’ security of brand, ease of certification infrastructure or learner’s control over their identity and achievements, digital certificates have already started securing the future of education in the most effective manner.
Learners can present their digital certificates for frictionless verification without requiring the issuer to be involved. This is particularly important during situations where the issuing institution may not be reachable, which could happen if a university has closed, or if broader political or infrastructure problems make contact infeasible.
Issuing functionality is designed to be easy to integrate into existing university student information systems, and offer the features demanded by registrars and other university groups involved in issuing certificates, such as ease of issuance, revocation, recordkeeping, etc.
Replacements for lost certificates are easily requested, securely received, and conveniently established from the issuer or a trusted third-party, such as standard-compliant vendors. In most circumstances, it is not necessary as the learner will hold the keys to his digital certificate, which can be retrieved and verified from the blockchain infrastructure. Unlike this, look at a few more stunning features of digital credentials.
The system ensures that certificates can be used by learners at a minimum throughout their lifetime.
This digital system will minimize certificate forgeability, making credentials tamper-proof in content and presentation, and offering reliable means of establishing authenticity.
The platform is built on open badges standard used in the world-wide approach of establishing digital certificates. Issuance of certificates and Issuer identity verification will roll out in a trust-building manner that takes responsibility by adhering to the open badge initiative.
It completely eradicates the possibility of a learner’s certificate lock-in with any employer, service provider, or third-party.
Issuers can audit their own issuance and revocation events to determine proper system behavior and detect fraudulent activity.
The learner can cryptographically prove that a credential is about themself. The system enables learners to use their credentials during digital interactions with other systems that require authentication.
In the existing system, changing the design of a credential or certificate is often ignored as it requires a stringent process. With the blockchain-based digital certificates, this process is made easy as multiple designs can be pre-defined and made available for usage whenever required.
