Exploring blockchain technology and its potential applications for education
Tóm tắt
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.
Tài liệu tham khảo
R Beck, JS Czepluch, N Lollike, S Malone, Blockchain – The Gateway to Trust-Free Cryptographic Transactions. In Research Papers from ECIS2016, (Istanbul, 2016)
M Chung, J Kim, The internet information and technology research directions based on the fourth industrial revolution. KSII Trans. Internet Inf. Syst. 10(3), 1311–1320 (2016)
R Collins, Blockchain: A new architecture for digital content. EContent 39(8), 22–23 (2016)
P Devine, Blockchain learning: can crypto-currency methods be appropriated to enhance online learning? Presented at the ALT Online Winter Conference 2015, Online, (United Kingdom, 2015)
K Fanning, DP Centers, Blockchain and its coming impact on financial services. J. Corp. Account. Finance 27(5), 53–57 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1002/jcaf.22179
S Haber, WS Stornetta, How to time-stamp a digital document. J. Cryptol. 3(2), 99–111 (1991) https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00196791
MB Hoy, An introduction to the Blockchain and its implications for libraries and medicine. Med. Ref. Serv. Q. 36(3), 273–279 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1080/02763869.2017.1332261
A Kosba, A Miller, E Shi, Z Wen, C Papamanthou, in 2016 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP). Hawk: The Blockchain Model of Cryptography and Privacy-Preserving Smart Contracts (2016), pp. 839–858 https://doi.org/10.1109/SP.2016.55
D Kraft, Difficulty control for blockchain-based consensus systems. Peer Peer Netw. Appl. 9(2), 397–413 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1007/s12083-015-0347-x
S Nakamoto, Bitcoin: A peer-to-peer electronic cash system. (2008) Retrieved from https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
M Peck, A blockchain currency that beat s bitcoin on privacy. IEEE Spectr. 53(12), 11–13 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2016.7761864
K Schwab, The Fourth Industrial Revolution (The Crown Publishing Group, New York City, NY, 2017)
M Sharples, J Domingue, in The Blockchain and Kudos: A Distributed System for Educational Record, Reputation and Reward. Adaptive and adaptable learning (Springer, Cham, 2016), pp. 490–496 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45153-4_48
DJ Skiba, The potential of Blockchain in education and health care. Nurs. Educ. Perspect. 38(4), 220–221 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1097/01.NEP.0000000000000190
M Swan, Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy, 1st edn. (O’Reilly Media, Sebastopol, CA, 2015)
F Tschorsch, B Scheuermann, Bitcoin and beyond: A technical survey on decentralized digital currencies. IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials 18(3), 2084–2123 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1109/COMST.2016.2535718
S Underwood, Blockchain beyond Bitcoin. Commun. ACM 59(11), 15–17 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1145/2994581
M Vukolić, in The Quest for Scalable Blockchain Fabric: Proof-of-Work vs. BFT Replication. Open problems in network security (Springer, Cham, 2015), pp. 112–125 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39028-4_9
H Wang, K Chen, D Xu, A maturity model for blockchain adoption. Financ. Innov. 2(1), 12 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1186/s40854-016-0031-z
J Yli-Huumo, D Ko, S Choi, S Park, K Smolander, Where is current research on Blockchain technology?—A systematic review. PLoS One 11(10), e0163477 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0163477
Z Zheng, S Xie, H Dai, X Chen, H Wang, in 2017 IEEE International Congress on Big Data (BigData Congress). An Overview of Blockchain Technology: Architecture, Consensus, and Future Trends (2017), pp. 557–564 https://doi.org/10.1109/BigDataCongress.2017.85