The Blockchain Challenge for Higher Education Institutions

Haugsbakken, Halvdan; Langseth, Inger Dagrun

doi:10.26417/ejed.v2i3.p41-46

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“…In line with the new keywords that are associated with this area of research, it is necessary to point out "blockchain university" [142]. This gives the blockchain the ability to facilitate the operation of educational platforms where students securely manage the data and content they share [143]. That is, this technology allows the transfer of digital assets without any intermediary, and some currents guess that it will have an impact similar to that of the Internet [144,145].…”

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Sustainable Management of Digital Transformation in Higher Education: Global Research Trends

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Digital transformation in the education sector has implied the involvement of sustainable management, in order to adapt to the changes imposed by new technologies. Trends in global research on this topic have been analyzed and studied, during the 1986–2019 period. To achieve this purpose, a bibliometric study of 1590 articles from the Scopus database has been applied. The results provided data on the scientific productivity of authors, journals, institutions, and countries that contribute to the development of this research area. The evidence reveals an exponential trend, with special interest in the last five years. The main categories are Social Sciences and Environmental Science. The most productive journal is Sustainability. The author with more articles is Mulder, from The Hague University of Applied Sciences. The most productive institution is Delft University of Technology. The USA is the country with the most academic publications and international collaborations in its studies. The main keywords used in the articles are “sustainability”, “sustainable development”, “higher education”, “innovation”, “technology”, “environmental technology”, “technological development”, and “environmental management”. Global research has followed a growing trend, with optimal publication levels in recent years.

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Sustainable Management of Digital Transformation in Higher Education: Global Research Trends

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“…Blockchain is also applied to other financial sectors, the health, IoT, government, and education sectors. Halvdan Haugsbakken et al discuss the potential value of blockchain technology in higher education and identifies areas where the technology can increase speed, efficiency, and transparency (Haugsbakken and Langseth, 2019). Furthermore, according to (Abbasi et al, 2021), the blockchain concept has demonstrated the potential of current educational opportunities.…”

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Education Exchange Storage Protocol: Transformation Into Decentralized Learning Platform

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The current micro-teaching process is readily online, and it is functional anywhere and anytime ubiquitously. All or most teaching and learning activities are accessible in centralized storage. However, centralized storage has inherent problems, such as a single point of failure with many possible data breaches, much duplication of data stored repeatedly in one location, and the lack of trust in third parties for data stored in centralized storage. Further issues include the high cost and low performance of the online systems that hinder the quality of the education process. In this paper, we propose a new framework Education Exchange Storage Protocol (EESP). EESP aims to improve the efficiency of the decentralized storage ecosystem in micro-teaching, coupled with blockchain technology acting as a control layer. Blockchain empowers the decentralized system by bringing together the most incompatible unstructured entities and integrate them. The decentralized storage system is armed with a blockchain smart contract that acts as a control layer, featuring impregnable security, immutability, trace-ability, and transparency. The EESP framework aims to elevate teaching and learning through blockchain decentralized storage systems in a transformational way, including but not limited to things like micro-credential, massive open online courses, and gamification, all in a single immersive learning platform. Finally, we tested and evaluated this framework using the truffle simulator, and the results demonstrate that the EESP model significantly improves performance.

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“…Although there are many issues related to the implementation of blockchain technology. General aspects that will have to be considered are: (1) the environmental cost, the amount of electricity that is needed to run complex code across many computers; (2) the time aspect, as blockchains grow, they might be slow and cumbersome; (3) the trust aspect, as it will take time for end users to make the trust leap and trust the technology, and (4) the legal aspect -the slow regulation of the value-based transfer of value over the Internet by the use of blockchain networks invites fraud [35,36]. Furthermore, another concern to be considered is unsuitability of traditional Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) models [37] for blockchain enabled smart contract-based applications.…”

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Development and Evaluation of Blockchain based Secure Application for Verification and Validation of Academic Certificates

Leka¹,

Selimi²

2021

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Academic degrees are subject to corruptions, system flaws, forgeries, and imitations. In this paper we propose to develop a blockchain smart contract-based application using Ethereum Platform, to store, distribute and verify academic certificates. It constitutes a trusted, decentralized certificate’s management system that can offer a unified viewpoint for students, academic institutions, as well as for other potential stakeholders such as employers. The article describes the implementation of three main parts of our proposed solution that includes: verification application, university interface and accreditor interface. This application avoids administrative barriers, makes the process of deployment, verification, and validation of certificates faster, efficient, and more secure. Additionally, it offers confidentiality of the data by using AES encryption algorithm before creating transactions and allows bulk submission of multiple academic certificates.

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The Blockchain Challenge for Higher Education Institutions

Cited by 29 publications

References 5 publications

Sustainable Management of Digital Transformation in Higher Education: Global Research Trends

Sustainable Management of Digital Transformation in Higher Education: Global Research Trends

Education Exchange Storage Protocol: Transformation Into Decentralized Learning Platform

Development and Evaluation of Blockchain based Secure Application for Verification and Validation of Academic Certificates

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