News Summary

• Learning and Employment Record (LER) systems are emerging as critical infrastructure for securely compiling and sharing educational and work achievements.
• Existing platforms leverage verifiable credentials but typically lack automated skill-credential generation and the ability to incorporate unstructured evidence of learning.
• In this paper, a privacy-preserving, AI-enabled decentralized LER system is proposed to address these gaps.
• Digitally signed transcripts from educational institutions are accepted, and verifiable self-issued skill credentials are derived inside a trusted execution environment.