Of resumes feature falsified educational attainment, including inflated grades. Source

Increase in data breaches in education between 2016 and 2017. Source

More administrators than educators join America’s colleges every year. Source


Key challenges for the education industry

Administrative costs and loads are rising. Institutions must acquire, process and store more data than ever before, and solve the associated infrastructure and data security questions. At the same time, stakeholders increasingly demand ease of use, integration and accessibility. Education entities must reconcile these requirements:

Data handling

From manual document verification to data entry and retrieval across systems, data handling is expensive, time-consuming and inefficient.

Staff & student identity

Verification of staff and student identity is fragmented, with manual record-checking and management costing hours of administrative work.

Infrastructure control

IoT allows entities to better manage their electricity, water and appliances, and to track and alert students. But fragmented campus utilities do not offer transparency, rapid data access, or fraud cover.

Data security

Educational institutions hold data on staff, students and other stakeholders. Much of this data is at risk and is an attractive target for bad actors.

User expectations

Stakeholders drive their feature and function expectations from consumer options, while education entities face additional compliance and security requirements.

Administration

Increasingly complex organizational structures, partnerships and larger data lakes require more and more time-consuming, costly administration work.

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Facilitating communications in the education sector with blockchain

Dots

Blockchain eliminates intermediaries, ensuring p2p interactions between educational institutions and individuals.

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Dots

Blockchain applications in education

Reduce manual data entry and handling, simplifying and streamlining administration and improving responsiveness to staff and student needs. Realize the promise of IoT with secure real-time data storage and retrieval across devices. Automate, accelerate and innovate with blockchain for education.

Document verification

Automate verification of transcripts, staff resumes and other documents with tamper-proof distributed data storage and retrieval on blockchain.

Single person view

Solve HR issues and verify employment histories. Give students seamless resource access and identity. Create single identities accessible by multiple apps and admins.

IoT security for infrastructure

Prevent attacks on cameras, card readers and other campus infrastructure with decentralized encryption that resists hacking and data loss.

Record-keeping

Automatically updated and immutably stored on blockchain, records can be checked and shared but not tampered with, stolen or lost.

Resource management

Balance energy, water and other resource demands with blockchain applications drawing on multiple encrypted databases in real time.

Accreditation and authentication

Class credits can be added to student identities instantly, and payments applied across the institution and partners securely and instantly.

Education entities using blockchain right now

MIT
and Blockcerts

MIT uses LearningMachine’s Blockcerts tool to record academic achievement and deliver certification to graduates.

The Open University
and APPII

The OU uses APPII’s accreditation platform to verify alumni and record student achievement.

x2VOL
and Parchment

x2VOL logs student voluntary activities and personal reflections as well as classes, offering a more holistic view.


Blockchain in education: solutions

Blockchain can solve existing challenges for educational institutions, addressing financial, data security and coordination and administration concerns. But it can also offer educational institutions and their staff, faculty and students completely new opportunities.

Internal economies

Allow students to make purchases for items, courses and classes throughout the institution’s ecosystem including partners, accommodation and more.

Smart contracts for course delivery

Certify courses and classes on smart contracts based on Ethereum or EOS. Trigger student payments on course completion trustlessly.

Decentralized learning

Blockchain-based decentralized learning hubs automatically deliver course content, assess results, confer certifications and establish student records.

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Benefit from blockchain with OpenLedger

OpenLedger has deep, extensive experience in crafting blockchain solutions for businesses and institutions, including custom blockchains and decentralized blockchain-based applications (Dapps). Our team can help you identify opportunities for your organization and match you with the most appropriate blockchain solution.

  • Eliminate the threat of data loss and theft
  • Scale and decentralize learning provision
  • Establish open interactions between staff and students
  • Establish secure financial transactions

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Supply chain

Supply chain

If you’re interested in the full range of blockchain solutions for supply chains, we have the experience and expertise to deliver.

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IoT

IoT

OpenLedger delivers innovative solutions combining IoT with encrypted, immutable, auditable blockchains.

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Logistics

Logistics

Improve your logistics processes with blockchain technology to gain competitive advantage and reduce operational costs.

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Healthcare

Healthcare

Use blockchain technology for better privacy protection, efficient data exchange, and secure patient data control in healthcare.

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Real estate

Real estate

Explore the benefits of blockchain in real estate, including data management and financial processing optimization.

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Insurance

Insurance

Transform your key processes and leverage the potential of blockchain in insurance industry.

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Automotive

Automotive

Whether it's ride-sharing, manufacturing, vehicle tracking, automotive interactions, blockchain can power your business.

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Retail

Retail

Build consumer trust, improve supply chain manageability, protect against counterfeit goods with blockchain for retail.

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Charity

Charity

Build trust with donors, recipients and other stakeholders, ensure that aid reaches the right people, and improve administration costs.

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Agriculture

Agriculture

Improve distribution, establish farm-to-shelf supply audits for producers and consumers, and reduce food fraud.

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Legal

Legal

Automate the execution of agreements, provide a secure and maintainable database for documents.

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Why work with us

Extensive expertise

You’ll get access to the expertise both of our own blockchain products and of successfully implemented custom solutions

Extensive expertise

Cutting-edge solutions

The OpenLedger team is pioneering the frontiers of blockchain tech and employing it to drive your company’s success.

Cutting-edge solutions

Highly-skilled dev team

All our tech solutions are built by the in-house cross-functional team. The strongest blockchain specialists on the market will be working on your project

Highly-skilled dev team

Profound R&D

OpenLedger’s outstanding R&D department deeply researches unique ways of improving your products and services, so we can implement them together.

Profound R&D

We’d love to show how blockchain can help your education business: