Senaca College steps boldly into the Digital Revolution

BY TVISHA MISTRY

Seneca joins the national initiative of digital adaptation strategy, by connecting with Canada’s official credential wallet network led by the Association of Registrars of the Universities and Colleges of Canada (ARUCC).

Combining career and professional skills training with theoretical knowledge, Seneca provides a proficient educational experience to 30,000 full-time and 60,000 part-time students based in Toronto, York Region and Peterborough.

The ARUCC provides leadership in the post-secondary education field and service to its member institutions nationally and internationally.

The network’s developments cater towards fields of post-secondary education, providing a trusted credential engine built with an aim to ease data transfer. ARUCC’s partnerships with Digitary helped successfully launch the advanced network, which is the first of its kind.

Digitary was launched in Dublin, Ireland in 2005, and has grown to become a leading online platform for certifying, sharing, and verifying academic credentials. Learner-centric since the start, Digitary enables learners to share their academic achievements online, securely, quickly, and easily.

It provides three million learners nationwide a secure, licensed platform to access and share any official documents and credentials, supporting student mobility as they transition beyond post-secondary institutions. The network is designed in a way that it allows students to share and access official: digitized transcripts, credentials, badges, and microcredentials, at any place and time. In doing so ARUCC is able to extend services to its member institutions, both internationally and domestically. Additionally, the network has been designed in such a way that it protects institutions from documentation fraud. Seneca will be uniting with other Canadian colleges and universities that have collaborated to create this national credential wallet and trusted online document exchange platform.

Key features of the ARUCC National Network include:

• 24/7 access for learners
• Bilingual services and support in French and English
• Access to view and share their verified and official transcripts, credentials, badges, micro credentials and documents in a digitized format
• Ability for Canadian postsecondary institutions and higher education partners to work together with the network to exchange official documents (with permission of the learner)

“Providing secure, verified digital credentials to our students is incredibly important and hugely valuable in supporting them as they embark on their future employment,” said Sharon Kinasz, Seneca’s Registrar. “We are delighted to join the ARUCC National Network powered by Digitary as we embrace digital adoption and enhance our sustainability practices at Seneca. Our enhancing support for our students, graduates, and alumni demonstrates Seneca’s dedication to supporting the learner’s experience through innovative digitization.”

“Digitary has always been learner-focused in everything that we do, and we strongly relate to ARUCC and Seneca’s mission to enhance the experience and digital capabilities offered to students. In providing effective digital solutions and verified academic credentials, we can support learners’ global mobility and their journey through employment,” said James Murray-Beckman, Digitary’s Chief Operating Officer. “We’re delighted to welcome Seneca to the ARUCC National Network powered by Digitary and will continue to support ARUCC and its partners to extend the digital capabilities to all learners across Canada.”