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.
Supporting Education 4.0 with Blockchain explores the current and future impacts of blockchain technologies, such as cryptocurrency, on the education system.
Editors and Contributors
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Blockchain technology in Education 4.0: An introduction
Chapter
1. Towards Education 4.0: Challenges and opportunities by Pawe
Konkol, Dariusz Dymek
Chapter
2. Blockchain as a disruptive technology in Education 4.0 by Janusz
Stal, Dariusz Put
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3. Supporting the management of educational institutions using
blockchain by Jan Trbka, Mariusz Grabowski
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4. Management of student-centred learning with blockchain by Mariusz
Grabowski, Pawe Konkol
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5. Addressing labour market challenges with blockchain by Dariusz
Put, Jan Trbka
Chapter
6. Teaching Blockchain: The case of the MSc in Blockchain and Digital
Currency of the University of Nicosia by Marinos Themistocleous
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7. Academic certificates issued on blockchain: The case of the
University of Nicosia and Block.co by Marinos Themistocleous, Klitos
Christodoulou, Elias Iosif
Chapter
8. Blockchains impact on education: Current landscape and prospects
for the future by Dariusz Dymek, Janusz Stal
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Grayna Paliwoda-Pkosz is Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics at Krakow University of Economics, Poland.
Piotr Soja is Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics at Krakow University of Economics, Poland.
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