A Blockchain System for Secure Academic Credit Transfer and Certificate Verification

Education industry is taking advantage of this citywide model and exploring new ways to automate the process in order to be more efficient as well as reducing fraudulence such as document forgery, unauthorized accesses to student data, etc. Under the ambit of India's new National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, The students are directed to complete online courses from certified platforms like NPTEL, Coursera and edXposing the need for secure verification and credit transfer for the large-scale implementation. In this paper, we present a blockchain-oriented approach to secure academic certificate verification, along with NEP-compliant credit transfer and demonstrate how decentralized storage and blockchain will manage the exchange of notarized credentials (ie: certificates) using a block chain-backed registry of their metadata on proof-of-existence services. After a student completes the course, the college uploads the certificate through a special web site and smart contracts process it as per certain predetermined rules to generate an academic credit. The students initiate the process of transferring credits through a system interface, for which the administrators approve, and once approved, are placed on this ledger to be permanently written onto the blockchain where they can not be tampered with or forged. Organizations outside the issuing entity may validate a certificate with a unique token ID or upload the file and need not discuss with an issuer. This decentralised and automated solution will enhance security, reduce the time of verification process, reduces administrative burden, bring consistency in academic record management besides giving impetus to NEP 2020 for an efficient, transparent and tamper proof teacher education academic records management and credit transfer system/to enable learners to move between institutions by facilitating all academic credits earned at same levelbe portable