Exploring blockchain technology and its potential applications for education

By Guang Chen, Bing Xu, M. Lu, Nian-Shing Chen. Smart Learning Environments, 2018

579 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Blockchain is the core technology used to create the cryptocurrencies, like bitcoin. As part of the fourth industrial revolution since the invention of steam engine, electricity, and information technology, blockchain technology has been applied in many areas such as finance, judiciary, and commerce. The current paper focused on its potential educational applications and explored how blockchain technology can be used to solve some education problems. This article first introduced the features and advantages of blockchain technology following by exploring some of the current blockchain applications for education. Some innovative applications of using blockchain technology were proposed, and the benefits and challenges of using blockchain technology for education were also discussed.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/ce99ac88a0baefd749ca4d7db8e5ed07dbaf51bf

How researchers see this paper

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In Computer Networks and Communications

1. Samudaya Nanayakkara
2. M. Rodrigo
3. Srinath Perera
4. Ralf Weinand
5. Sepani Senaratne

In Information Systems

1. Samudaya Nanayakkara
2. M. Rodrigo
3. Srinath Perera
4. Amr Adel
5. Ralf Weinand
6. Sepani Senaratne

Citations in the corpus

• Blockchain-Based Applications in Education: A Systematic Review (2019, background): “Most of these institutions are using it for the purpose of validating and sharing academic certificates and / or learning outcomes that their students have achieved [6].”
• Future of industry 5.0 in society: human-centric solutions, challenges and prospective research areas (2022, background): “Natural user interfaces like gestures are used to gain attention as they allow humans to control the machines through intuitive and natural behaviours [86, 146–149].”
• Blockchain technology: Is it hype or real in the construction industry? (2020, background): “0 applications, a combination of other activities related to government, education and finance can make these non-financial activities express the property of currency [96].”