Blockchain Technology in Education

Blockchain Technology in Education

1. Problem 1 'Job applicants, students pursuing advanced education, and immigrants, among others, often need to prove that they have the educational or skills-based credentials they claim.' *learningsolutionsmag.com

   • Job applicants, students pursuing advanced education, and immigrants, among others, often need to prove that they have the educational or skills-based credentials they claim to have.

2. Problem 2 Paper based credentials and certificates can be lost or destroyed. Getting replacement certificates may not always be possible or may take time and be costly.

3. problem 3 proving the validity of any individual's credentials, I.e. whether they attained the grade they state or completed a course can be problematic without paper copies and certificates can be falsified.

4. Solution 1 Whether a course is fully or partly E-learning based, the issue of an electronic certificate which is held on a decentralised database (or blockchain) means it can be easily accessed by the learner, institutions and potential employers.

5. Solution 2 Blockchain technology is extremely secure and began in the realms of bitcoin. Every transaction in bit coin creates a block which must be verified by numerous other computers to make it valid. Every change creates a new block in the chain. In Elearning, this would apply to student results tracking making certification more secure and accessible.

6. Solution 3 'Decentralized verification: Taking ownership, control, and security from an individual or institution and placing it in a decentralized ledger makes counterfeiting credentials difficult or impossible because cryptographic algorithms—not individual humans—guarantee that approved transactions or ledger entries cannot be altered once they have been validated.' *learningsolutionsmag.com