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The Maltese government has recently launched its first initiative regarding blockchain technology to start issuing notarised blockchain certificates for professional and informal education. In this respect, Malta is the first country to use this technology for education certification. This is part of the government's vision to be a market leader in the implementation of this technology and to increase efficiency and transparency in public sector services.To implement this pilot project, a Memorandum of Understanding (“MoU”) has been entered by the Education Ministry and the international company Learning Machine.
Workshop Open Education #OEWeek #OEWeekTimisoara Blockchain and Open Education Prof.dr.ing. Carmen Holotescu "Ioan Slavici" University of Timisoara, Romania
Education reform is always a hot issue, but with blockchain technology, the potential for change is even greater. Blockchain could change the way we track and verify transcripts, degrees, and other credentials, and help make education more accessible and affordable around the world.
Education offers critical pathways for upward mobility and economic improvement for people everywhere. Credentials that are earned on that journey serve as important markers of skill, competency, and accomplishment. One goal of every education provider should be issuing these credentials in a secure way that students can take with them and build upon. With the blockchain, the goal of student data ownership becomes a reality. This technology enables learners receive their official records in a digital format that is tamper proof and immediately verifiable by others.
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We’ve all heard of bitcoin and how cryptocurrencies could revolutionise the way we conduct business online. You’ve probably seen the topic buzzing around on LinkedIn feeds or in any recent article touting future technology predictions. While many of us may not be making important purchases in bitcoin in the near future, the tech behind bitcoin – called blockchain – has the potential to influence our daily lives in more ways than one might think, including in higher education.
The blockchain provides a rich, secure, and transparent platform on which to create a global network for higher learning. This Internet of value can h
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.
It is simply tamper-proof logs that are publicly accessible. If you want to know more, please read my previous story A Beginner’s Guide to Blockchain. Olivia is a thirteen-year-old orphan. She is the…
The NMC Horizon Report: 2017 Higher Education Edition was produced by the NMC in collaboration with the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). The internationally recognized NMC Horizon Report series and regional NMC Technology Outlook series are part of the NMC Horizon Project, a comprehensive effort established in 2002 that identifies and describes important developments in technology poised to have a large impact on technology planning and decision-making in education around the globe. Each of the four global editions of the NMC Horizon Report — higher education, primary and secondary education (K-12), museum, and library — highlights six trends, six challenges, and six developments in technology or practices that are likely to enter mainstream use within their focus sectors over the next five years (2017-2021).
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A new European Commission report lays out some of the ways that the education sector can benefit from incorporating blockchain technology. Many of the use cases revolve around certificate-issuance and record-keeping.
The digital art landscape has rapidly expanded since the passing of Visual Rights Act of 1990 (Baron, 1996; CAA, 2013). With the recent advent of blockchain technologies, derived from Nakamoto’s Bitcoin currency, new possibilities have emerged for the way artistic materials can be exchanged and how communications can be conducted. This research examines emerging applications for decentralized blockchain technologies in community-based art projects and digital art startups¬. The work of three organizations, ConsenSys, Ethereum, and Monegraph, is explored. Through the use of blockchain technologies, digital artists can create a traceable and tradable record of their work, while generating a critical discourse around the reproducibility of media. In this research, I investigate the potential uses of digital art in the blockchain and its educational value in visual arts education.
There is a pronounced shortage of developers qualified in building decentralized, scalable blockchain systems and applications. The question is, how can we provide the educational support that this new generation of logical thinkers requires?
Sony goes through how it would develop nodes for a blockchain in a recently-released patent application first filed in January.
Build apps that issue and verify blockchain-based credentials for academic credentials, professional certifications, workforce development, and civic records.
With the implementation of blockchain technology in educational institutes, it becomes easy to secure badges, credits, qualifications and data. Check out the few ways blockchain can be implemented in running the institutions.
Those who don’t quite understand all the fuss about cryptocurrencies now have a way to learn and benefit from the technology.
There was a time when Blockchain and Bitcoin were connected by an invisible umbilical cord, but the evolution of technology has seen Blockchain go from strength to strength, while Bitcoin is increasingly being viewed as the biggest bubble the world has ever seen. Many experts believe Blockchain is set to become a mainstream technology within a few years, so should Blockchain study be added to the curriculum so the next generation can study it in more detail?
Blockchain technology can help improve old models of data management and bring benefits to learners and educational institutions in the EU—if policymakers are well prepared to embrace the change.
There is even a new term for it – “edublocks”
The ‘blockchain’ is the core mechanism for the Bitcoin digital payment system. It embraces a set of inter-related technologies: the blockchain itself as a distributed record of digital events, the distributed consensus method to agree whether a new block is legitimate, automated smart contracts, and the data structure associated with each block. We propose a permanent distributed record of intellectual effort and associated reputational reward, based on the blockchain that instantiates and democratises educational reputation beyond the academic community. We are undertaking initial trials of a private blockchain or storing educational records, drawing also on our previous research into reputation management for educational systems.
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