Texas Woman’s was among four Blockchain Innovation Challenge winners featured in a July 19 story in Higher Education Today, a blog by the American Council on Education.

“Bringing Jobs and Workers Together in the New Skills Economy” notes that, while there are many pathways to gain skills needed in the workforce, the ability to verify credentials earned from those pathways is lacking. The Blockchain Innovation Challenge invited teams to develop pilot projects that could help individuals gain more control over their learning records.

TWU’s award-winning project formed a consortium of North Texas institutions that will use a shared platform to store students’ educational records and allow students to share those records with other institutions and employers. TWU was awarded a $150,000 grant for the project.