Developing a blockchain-based digitally secured model for the educational sector in Saudi Arabia toward digital transformation

Someah Alangari; Saeed M Alshahrani; Nayyar Ahmed Khan; Abdulrahman Abdullah Alghamdi; Jameel Almalki; Waleed Al Shehri

doi:10.7717/peerj-cs.1120

Developing a blockchain-based digitally secured model for the educational sector in Saudi Arabia toward digital transformation

PeerJ Comput Sci. 2022 Sep 29:8:e1120. doi: 10.7717/peerj-cs.1120. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Someah Alangari¹, Saeed M Alshahrani², Nayyar Ahmed Khan², Abdulrahman Abdullah Alghamdi², Jameel Almalki³, Waleed Al Shehri³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Computer Science, College of Science and Humanities Dawadmi, Shaqra University, Shaqra, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
² Department of Computer Science, College of Computing and Information Technology, Shaqra University, Shaqra, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
³ Department of Computer Science, College of Computer in Al-Lith, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia.

Abstract

New universities and educational organizations are increasing in Saudi Arabia with the increase in the need for high-quality education. This increased the need for a fast transformation to digitise the educational system in Saudi Arabia, which is one of the important pillars of the Saudi Vision 2030. The students who study in these organizations suffer the verification of academic records and other educational documents. Students who want to study at universities abroad also face the challenge of academic records and certificates verification. A secure, fast, and transparent model is required in the education sector in order to verify academic certificates issued by various educational organizations. Blockchain technology can be used with high data security to empower the educational sector of Saudi Arabia in the digital transformation and to help the educational organizations in verifying academic documents. In order to avoid any document fraud and forgery, along with the ease of verification of academic records and educational documents for the students. This research focuses on developing a model which will be helpful in achieving digital transformation in academic document verification by blockchain technology.

Keywords: Blockchain; Digital Transformation; Educational Sector; Saudi Arabia.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Deanship of Scientific Research at Shaqra University (No. SU-ANN-202261). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.