Abstract
Blockchain technology adoption has influenced several fields, including healthcare, financial, and supply chain systems. Lately, this technology has expanded its application in education because of its unique attributes, which are decentralization, immutability, consensus, and security. Despite the bright side of centralized credentialing and implementation, there are some challenges that need to be addressed. Thus, a comprehensive literature review of the reasons that blockchain adoption in education field is considered necessary and effective. To do so, we investigate and explore the benefits and gaps of decentralized credentialing systems that are utilized to securely issue, verify, and share digital credentials such as grades, degrees, diplomas, and certificates through simulation of blockchain and smart contract embedded logic. In this paper, we focus on two major themes: adoption of blockchain in education and enhancing the data privacy on blockchain through means of consensus algorithm. We express and analyze the results conducted as experimental simulations by stakeholders which are university administrations, professors, and students, when combining the two themes to propose a solution in terms of trust and adoption to enhance the privacy and security of student learning data and maintain individual privacy rights. we have discussed the methodology which is Design Science Research (DSR) and evaluated the results to emphasize on the significance of blockchain in education. We believe there is future work in enhancing the logic and validation of smart contract through means of hashing and cryptography.
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I would like to express my gratitude to the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS) for their generous support and funding, which were crucial to the completion of this research.
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Abdullah, K., Saleh, K., Manuel, P. (2024). Blockchain Adoption in Education with Enhancing Data Privacy. In: Rocha, Á., Adeli, H., Dzemyda, G., Moreira, F., Poniszewska-Marańda, A. (eds) Good Practices and New Perspectives in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST 2024. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 987. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60221-4_42
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