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A Preliminary Review of Blockchain-Based Solutions in Higher Education

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Learning Technology for Education Challenges (LTEC 2019)

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Blockchain technology is showing its potential to disrupt established business processes. Four types of blockchain initiatives have been identified: Record keeper, efficiency play, digital asset market, and blockchain disruptor. Many different applications have also been emerging within the educational domain, following a student or institution-centric approach. Student-centric solutions simplify the validation process of received credentials, while institution-centric solutions facilitate mainly operational activities of educational institutions. In this paper, we present several use cases addressing different aspects within the educational domain, such as streamlining the process of diploma verification, virtual lifetime learning passport, securing the issued certificates permanently, verifying the accreditation process, automatic recognition of credits, etc. A preliminary review and analysis of identified projects and initiatives show that most of them follow a student-centric approach while facilitating record-keeping.

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Acknowledgments

The authors acknowledge the financial support from the Slovenian Research Agency (research core funding No. P2-0057 Information Systems and project No. BI-BA/19-20-020 Implementation challenges of blockchain technology in higher education).

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  1. Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor, Koroška c. 46, 2000, Maribor, Slovenia

    Aida Kamišalić, Muhamed Turkanović & Marjan Heričko

  2. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo, Zmaja od Bosne bb, Kampus Univerziteta, 71000, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Saša Mrdović

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Kamišalić, A., Turkanović, M., Mrdović, S., Heričko, M. (2019). A Preliminary Review of Blockchain-Based Solutions in Higher Education. In: Uden, L., Liberona, D., Sanchez, G., Rodríguez-González, S. (eds) Learning Technology for Education Challenges. LTEC 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1011. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20798-4_11

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