Last week, the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) released a survey about current education credentials trends. AACRAO, with its 11,000 higher education professional membership, aims to improve record management in educational institutions. Blockchain verifiable credentials were not near the top of the list.
A key takeaway from the report is the need for educational credentials to go paperless. Paper-based processes are inefficient because the document’s can’t be reused, it’s time-consuming to get copies of the records, and they can be easily faked. While digital credentials have been around in one form or another for almost 30 years, the pandemic compelled most institutions to accelerate the shift towards some sort of digitized, interoperable and portable credentialing system.
The survey concludes that 32% of institutions plan to devote more resources to credential digitization and 89% report using at least one type of digital credential today. Still, most processes carried out at universities and colleges are paper-based.
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