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Exploring blockchain technology and its potential applications for education
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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.
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“For example, the classic Proof of Work consensus mechanism wastes energy and has a poor performance in terms of number of transactions per second (Vukolić 2015), which would cost an extra expense, and hinder its application in schools.”
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- Authors
- Chen, G., Xu, B., Lu, M., & Chen, N.-S.
- Venue
- Smart Learning Environments
- Published
- 2018-01-03
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 2196-7091 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2781869656
- Cited by
- 753
- References
- 3
- FWCI
- 116.50
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
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