Securing the future of education with Blockchain
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This document discusses the potential uses of blockchain technology in education. It notes that as online learning and alternative credentials become more common, blockchain could help provide security for records of learning. The document outlines several potential applications of blockchain such as storing verifiable educational records and credentials, facilitating identity verification and information security, giving students more control over their learning data, and automatically transferring credits between institutions. Both advantages like increased trust and challenges around issues like privacy and the need to solve real educational problems are acknowledged.
Securing the future of education with Blockchain
- 1. Securing the future of education with Blockchain Kim Flintoff Learning Futures Perth Blockchain Conference May 18, 2018
- 2. ABSTRACT As all levels and sectors of education contemplate ongoing developments in digital technology, distributed and fragmented models of learning, stackable credentials, and educational unbundling the potential for a system like blockchain to bring security to a diverse landscape of evidence of learning, recognition of learning and acknowledgement of learning becomes more relevant. As MOOCs, SPOCs, online courses, RPL and alternative credentialling become more ubiquitous the main stakeholders in education, industry and government are realising the need for systems that enable higher levels of trust when certificates, awards and prior learning recognition are at stake. This session will discuss some of the needs and some of the attempts already in place globally.
- 5. Many discussions begin without even this simple insight
- 10. Current debates in education Is Blockchain a reasonable solution for any of these?
- 11. Qualifications?
- 12. https://library.educause.edu/resources/2016/6/what-we-learned-from-designing-an-academic-certificates-system-on-the-blockchain “The blockchain is not a simple solution that will fix everything that is wrong with today’s credentials. But it does offer some possibilities for improving the system we have today– and that’s what we are excited to explore.” “We wanted to reserve the possibility to revoke a certificate.”
- 13. Democratising education? ODEM is an On- Demand Education Marketplace https://odem.io/what-is-odem/
- 14. Deloitte’s EMEA Blockchain Center of Excellence based in Dublin has developed a blockchain solution around the collection, validation, secure storage, and sharing of education qualifications. https://www2.deloitte.com/lu/en/pages/technology/articles/educhain-validating-educational-identity.html
- 15. https://education-ecosystem.com/ LiveEdu is working on a Blockchain based learning platform. They connect different participants like content creators, learners, API developers, moderators, etc. You can register on their platform and learn from industry experts. https://hackernoon.com/how-can-blockchain-technology-innovate-your-education-d1cd80c26f08
- 16. Key Advantages of Blockchain Technology • Self-sovereignty, • Trust, • Transparency & Provenance, • Immutability, • Disintermediation, • Collaboration. https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/eur-scientific-and-technical-research-reports/blockchain-education Further applications in: • verification • data management structures • payment for tuition and services
- 17. Transformation of Education? 1. Disrupting the Current Education Model 2. Storing Permanent Records 3. Identity Verification & Information Security 4. Student Ownership of Learning 5. Interactive Learning & Analytics 6. Automatic Transfer of Credits 7. The “Lifelong Learning Passport” 8. Copyright for Educational Content 9. Multi-Step Accreditation 10.Payment and Funding https://www.opencolleges.edu.au/informed/edtech-integration/blockchain-technology-education/
- 18. https://oeb.global/oeb-insights/10-ways-blockchain-could-be-used-in-education/ 1. Single institution 2. Groups of institutions 3. National database 4. Global Assessment 5. Open Badges 6. MOOCs 7. Corporate Learning 8. Continuing Professional Development 9. Apprenticeships 10.Knowledge management
- 19. Learning Analytics Gathering evidence from micro learning experiences
- 20. Potential impacts EU proposes: “creating and promoting a label for ‘open’ educational records, which enshrines the principles of recipient ownership, vendor independence and decentralised verification – and only supports or adopts technologies in compliance with such a label.”
- 21. Wicked Questions • Is learning transactional? • What constitutes trust in education? • Can current education systems manage the complexity of blockchain strategies? • What’s the purpose of mining in an educational blockchain? • What effects upon privacy (What is a real “permanent record”)? • Does any of this actually solve any educational problems? • What problems might be introduced by blockchain strategies? http://hackeducation.com/2016/04/07/blockchain-education-guide Drawn from the work of Audrey Watters
Editor's Notes
- #13: Key pairs - presents challenges to recipients - solutions probably lay in a wallet system. Revocation - to address design flaws or withdrawal of the right to use the credential - operates as a flag only. Privacy - personal data must be linked to certificates - that is their value. Curation - the certificates need to be curatable - recipients need to be able to curate their presentation of credentials. Tracking use - presents design challenges to meet other priorities. But offers potential benefits in course selection and other areas.
- #17: GDPR also raises the issue of the right to be forgotten.
- #19: SCORM, xAPI, Leverage
- #23: LiveSlide Site https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcP78cLPGtE