Description
This book explores the current and future impacts of blockchain technologies, such as cryptocurrency, on the education system. Blockchain is a disruptive technology based on a shared, distributed ledger, where transactions are registered by consensus in a network of peers, using cryptographic mechanisms that render the records virtually immutable and, ideally, enable transparency, auditability, and resilience. What role, then, could it play in fostering transformative approaches such as student-centred teaching and learning, distributed learning environments, and lifelong learning? This book provides essential perspectives into blockchain applications and challenges within education and offers a broader view of blockchain technology against existing information and communication technologies used in education. Spanning the effects on institutions, students, and the labor market, these chapters offer critical reviews and analyses of current research, practical first-hand applications of blockchain in education, and original conceptual models.
Table of Contents
Blockchain technology in Education 4.0: An introduction
Grażyna Paliwoda-Pękosz and Piotr Soja
1. Towards Education 4.0: Challenges and opportunities
Paweł Konkol and Dariusz Dymek
2. Blockchain as a disruptive technology in Education 4.0
Janusz Stal and Dariusz Put
3. Supporting the management of educational institutions using blockchain
Jan Trąbka and Mariusz Grabowski
4. Management of student-centred learning with blockchain
Mariusz Grabowski and Paweł Konkol
5. Addressing labour market challenges with blockchain
Dariusz Put and Jan Trąbka
6. Teaching blockchain: The case of the MSc in Blockchain and Digital Currency of the University of Nicosia
Marinos Themistocleous
7. Academic certificates issued on blockchain: The case of the University of Nicosia and Block.co
Marinos Themistocleous, Klitos Christodoulou and Elias Iosif
8. Blockchain’s impact on education: Current landscape and prospects for the future
Dariusz Dymek and Janusz Stal
