Supporting Higher Education 4.0 with Blockchain: Critical Analyses of Automation, Data, Digital Currency, and Other Disruptive Applications Paliwoda-P?kosz Gra?yna

Supporting Education 4.0 with Blockchain explores the current and future impacts of blockchain technologies, such as cryptocurrency, on the education system. What role, then, could it play in fostering transformative approaches such student-centered teaching and learning, distributed learning environments, and lifelong learning? Blockchain is a disruptive technology based on a shared, distributed ledger, where transactions are registered by consensus in a network of peers, using cryptographic mechanisms that render the records virtually immutable and, ideally, enable transparency, auditability, and resilience.

Spanning the effects on This book provides essential perspectives into blockchain's applications and challenges within education and offers a broader view of blockchain technology against existing information and communication technologies used in education.