Reference Model for Academic Results Certification in Student Mobility Scenarios

Cardoso, S., Mamede, H., & Santos, V. (2020). Reference Model for Academic Results Certification in Student Mobility Scenarios. Journal of Information Systems Engineering & Management, 5(4), em0125. https://doi.org/10.29333/jisem/8491 The exchange of academic results between HEIs (Higher Education Institutions) is mandatory in every student mobility program (i.e. the EU Erasmus Program) but that process remains to present date with insufficient technological support and the absence of a comprehensive reference model that allows the integration of potential technological solutions for the exchange of academic data with existing Academic Information Systems seems to limit greatly the possibility of adopting solutions of this type referred to in the existing literature. This work addresses this problem, conducting an initial bibliographic review aimed at the identification of the fundamental requirements of such an architecture as well as explores some of the technologies that are showing potential for usage in the safe exchange of academic results between partner HEIs, with particular interest in blockchain technology applied in an educational context. publishersversion published