For the first time in Mexico, Tecnológico de Monterrey will issue professional blockchain college diplomas for an entire generation of more than 4000 students who graduate from 24 campuses throughout the country. Last April, 350 professional degrees were delivered with this technology in a pilot test with graduates of this institution.
This cutting-edge technological initiative empowers students as owners of their information, which is unalterable since it is hosted securely and encrypted in blockchain, a decentralized and public database that safely allows digital transactions, creating relationships of trust between users.
Blockcerts Wallet, created in 2016 by the MIT, issues academic degrees in an open blockchain standard that allows sharing them with employers, potential partners, educational institutions, companies and organizations from around the world that can verify their authenticity without having to consult the institution.
The traditional degree on paper will continue to be delivered, as will the electronic title in .XML format indicated by the Mexican Ministry of Public Education, and now the graduates will also have it in blockchain, favoring their academic and professional mobility.
Annually, around eleven thousand students graduate from Tecnológico de Monterrey, and from this generation onwards, the graduates will have this technological innovation in their degrees. Also, alumni from previous generations can be given this benefit in a process that will start after 2020.
Tec de Monterrey is one of the pioneering universities in the implementation of blockchain technology to issue academic credentials throughout the world and the first in Mexico. It is also part of a group of nine leading universities in the world that work on the design of a global infrastructure that will allow them to issue, share and verify academic credentials in a digital format.
Incorporating technology such as this one to academic credentials is part of the set of innovations that the implementation of the Tec21 Educational Model brings, a unique model in the world that bets on disruptive change in the way of education. Learning will be more flexible and adapted to the needs of each student, to strengthen those competencies required as global citizens to face the challenges of the present and the future.
Learn more about this initiative at: mostla.tec.mx/titulos-blockchain/
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Nohemí Vilchis
Nohemí Vilchis
Nohemí Vilchis