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BCT recognizes education as the great equalizer. It bridges the gap between learning and work and enhances personal data agency by securing learner ownership and credentials through "secure and transparent platforms for tracking and verifying students' academic achievements...making it easier for students to showcase their skills and knowledge to potential employers" (Koshiry, et al, 2023). BCT also solves educational credibility problem (fraud, intermediaries, incompetencies) in an era of crisis of legitimacy. Perhaps most importantly, BCT has been shown to "improve the lifelong learning system and accelerate the construction of a learning society" (Tang, et al, p. 126, 2024).  The automatically advances frontier of education and reshapes space while maintaining sustainability. This transparent and secure data sharing is required to enable global learning because it saves money, time, teacher energy, and ensures standardization towards the development of a smart, strong, safe, educated, just, ecologically-sound society of the future.
Educational Uses
Educational Uses
Blockchain Technology is a student-centered way of funding, financial aid, fraud prevention, record keeping, RFID tags (radio frequency identity cards), credentialing and certification. Also, by providing governance and digital architecture the administrative process can be streamlined and "improve overall trust and reliability of educational credentials" (Rani & Priya, p. 2471, 2023). "Blockchain is mainly used to facilitate online testing and learning, education data mining and analytics, resource sharing, educational record verification and authentication, data management and storing, administration management, education/discipline of children, and college crowd funding" (Tatnall, p. 3634, 2023).
In addition to automated, data-driven marking, it can also drive assessment and focus on formative assessment which has traditionally been undervalued. BCT can encourage and recognize more formative assessment, which is key for reaching learning outcomes. "to establish a sound organizational structure to provide reliable organization support for the recognition of learning outcomes" (Tang, et al, p. 126, 2024). BCT can steer curriculum design. "scoring model of curriculum review is constructed to objectively evaluate students' learning ability" (Yu & Zou, p. 287, 2023). BCT can integrate gamification schemes to make learning more enjoyable and effective. BCT can be used as a teacher reference, teacher materials, teacher evaluation, student lifelong learning achievements.
Students
Students
Adaptive Learning Platform
Personalized Learning
Collaboration
Global Peer to Peer LearningÂ
Teachers
Teachers
Secure Assessment
Decentralized Education Platform
Learning Analytics
Content Tokenization
Institutions
Institutions
Credentialing/Certification
Data Privacy & Security
Fraud Prevention
Remote Microcredentials & Badging
Contemporary Examples
Contemporary Examples
Blockchain-based decentralized approach to online learning (Kyun, et al, 2021).
Open Source (OS) University
Open Source (OS) University
Open Source University aims to use blockchain to benefit all three key stakeholders in the education process: learners, academia, and businesses. It is worth highlighting that partnerships between enterprises and universities have been formed as well.
Ministry of Education China 2035
BCT is being leveraged to achieve the educational goals set with these five areas of focus: Educational Data Management, Academic Integrity, Smart Contracts, Online Learning and Certification, Educational Resource Sharing.
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) 2030
BCT aligns with the Kingdom's Vision 2030 goals to include: Credential Verification: Student Data Management, Smart Contracts, Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning, Transparency and Accountability, Personalized Learning, Research and Collaboration.
MIT
Early Research and Development (2015), Educational Programs,Â
MIT Bitcoin Club (2014), Bitcoin Experiment (2014)
Simon Fraser University (SFU)
Research and Development, Educational Programs, Blockchain Club, Industry Partnerships,Â
Innovation and Entrepreneurship, .
Blockchain Applications, Public Engagement.
Stanford University
Exploratory uses of blockchain technology in education, including digital identity management, secure data sharing, secure certification management.
University College London (UCL)
Blockchain-based platform for secure and transparent data management for student records and research data.
The University of Nicosia
Offering an MA in Digital Currency, they were the earliest on the scene having launched a blockchain-based digital currency in 2013.
The University of Melbourne
Exploratory uses of blockchain technology in education, including secure data sharing, secure certificate management, digital identity management.
Credentialisation
Credentialisation
Open access to credentials empowers the disenfranchised . Several institutions have begun to offer BCT accreditation, training and payment options.
Infosys
Infosys
Oracle
Oracle
Edublock
Edublock
Sony & IBM
Sony & IBM
Future Niche Potential
Future Niche Potential
IFTF_ACT_LearningIsEarning_ResearchMap.pdf
Content Tokenization
Content Tokenization
Unwittingly, educators may be the biggest online content creators. Teachers can also be incentivized to participate on the blockchain as content creators and tokenize creations as owners of digital assets stored on blockchain. This will reduce piracy, compensate teachers for efforts, honor copywrite, deter plagiarism, validate intellectual property, produce increased quality materials and possibly even allocate royalties for fair use and ethical content consumption.
EduToken
EduToken
Students can pay using educational tokens. Engaging with non fungible tokens (NFTs), intellectual property can be protected and trust can be restored.
Repository of OERs. Learning platform that sits at the intersection of human intelligence, AI and OERs. Learning materials can be coded with metadata to discover which is most relevant.
Decentralized University
Decentralized University
A decentralized university leverages BCT to create a transparent, secure, and accessible education system. It enables verifiable credentialing, decentralized governance, and peer-to-peer learning. Students have control over their academic records, which are securely stored on the blockchain. SCs automate administrative processes, reducing bureaucracy. The decentralized university aims to democratize education, ensuring equal access and recognition for learners worldwide.
Get Educated!
Get Educated!
One of the challenges preventing BCT from becoming more widely applied in the realm of education is that teachers are not qualified or trained. Do your future teaching self a favor and get onboard and educate yourself with some of the below opportunities! Feel free to pass these resources onto interested colleagues and friends. The more the merrier!
Stanford University
Stanford University
Blockchain (and cryptocurrency) video series course (2019).
Microcredentials offered on BlockChain Technology.
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