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- Digital transformation of presenting learning and education outcomes:
- current: such documents are usually presented on paper - often with security elements - or as scans - where those security elements get lost. Verification of such documents involves human interaction, is quite costly and is only performed in case of suspected misuse. Some verification services exist, such as Switch Verify, but they are not standards based, offer differing sets of functionalities and did not reach substantial market coverage.
- transformed: such documents get offered as structured data in machine readable format with security elements to protect integrity, authenticity and trust. Verification can be automated, becomes cheap and can easily be performed on all documents presented that way.
- impact:
Efficiency: Moving from paper-based or scanned documents to structured data in machine-readable formats would greatly enhance efficiency. Automation of verification processes would reduce the need for human intervention, thereby saving time and resources. Institutions would be able to handle a larger volume of documents with greater speed and accuracy.
Cost Reduction: Automation of verification processes would lead to cost reduction. Institutions would no longer need to allocate significant resources to manually verify documents. Additionally, the costs associated with paper-based documentation (printing, storage, etc.) would decrease.
Accuracy & Reliability: Machine-readable formats with embedded security elements would enhance the accuracy and reliability of educational documents. The risk of tampering or forgery would be significantly reduced, increasing trust in the authenticity of the presented documents.
Accessibility & Global Reach: The adoption of standards for presenting educational documents in machine-readable formats would promote consistency and interoperability across institutions and systems. This standardisation would streamline processes and enhance collaboration within the education sector. Digital transformation would enable educational documents to be easily verified across borders, eliminating geographical barriers. This would facilitate international mobility and recognition of qualifications, promoting global collaboration and exchange in the education sector
- Scope of identity services of our community:
- current: existing identity services such as eduGAIN are used for online access to resources, but not directly for presentation of documents. Therefore, such services are only relevant to services being accessed by users.
- transformed: emerging Emerging new identity services of our community are additionally used to protect new types of transactions such as the extend beyond online resource access to include the secure presentation of documents, broadening their utility and scope.
- impact: a potentially much larger number of services - called verifier - potentially coming from a wider range of sectors outside of our own research and education sector will rely on our emerging identity services. To enable trust in our emerging services and the players in our own sector, we can no longer rely on implicit trust in our sector, but have to make it explicit to other parties. This might include elements like certifications, practice statements and sector governance.
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- Our identity services will be offering added value of to end users by extending reach and functionality.
- By tapping into the emerging solution environment "wallet ecosystem", we might no longer need to perform certain tasks on our own.
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