When education meets blockchain, what pain points can the education industry solve?
The sudden outbreak of the epidemic not only disrupted the rhythm of life, but also affected work and study that should have been carried out normally.
In fact, not only are colleges and universities unable to carry out offline teaching during the special period of the epidemic, but for many offline education and training institutions that have never faced such a situation, the impact of the epidemic will inevitably affect enrollment, retention, and promotion. and how to make money. Therefore, this also ushers in an unprecedented development opportunity for online education.
Because of the raging new crown pneumonia epidemic, the Ministry of Education notified that the spring semester of 2020 will be postponed, and nearly 270 million students across the country will start "cloud classes". On the one hand, this is an expedient measure of last resort, on the other hand, it is also the largest and largest Internet teaching experiment in the history of human education.
Of course, this has also triggered another hot topic that has attracted more attention and thinking, that is, for many online education institutions, how to use the critical moment of the surge in traffic during this period to achieve "broken windows" and get out of a new adverse situation. What about the road to attack?
In 2018, Yu Minhong, chairman of New Oriental, once expressed a point of view: the biggest problem in China’s education is that the future of all children mainly depends on the one-time college entrance examination, and the feature of blockchain technology is that the data cannot be tampered with, and the child’s learning trajectory can be recorded. By analyzing the report through AI, it can change the status quo that a college entrance examination score determines a child's future.
"Anything technological is a means to help you achieve your goals."
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What blockchain can do in education
1. Blockchain technology uses block chain data structure to store data, and generates and updates data through distributed data. When the blockchain technology is applied to the online education network structure, the teaching record information of the teacher teaching and the students listening to the lecture will be left in the system throughout the whole process, combined with the recording, verification and other mechanisms, to achieve the transparency and reliability of teacher evaluation, student feedback and teaching results. It realizes the control of non-manual operation, assists intelligent decision-making, improves the efficiency of education management, is conducive to scientific and reasonable after-school management, and solves the worries of parents who are worried about no one after school.
2. Using the blockchain's decentralized, verifiable, and tamper-proof storage system to store academic certificates in the blockchain database can ensure the authenticity of academic certificates and make academic verification more effective, safe and simple. This will It is the perfect solution to solve the falsification of academic diplomas and certificates.
3. By embedding smart contracts, blockchain technology can complete the generation and storage of online education platform contracts, and build a virtual economic education smart trading system.
4. Using blockchain technology to develop a decentralized education system, there will be more third-party educational institutions to assume the role of professional education service providers, and the open source, transparency, and non-tamperable features of the blockchain can ensure its The authenticity and credibility of the educational process and results.
5. Internet technology has produced interactive means such as online learning and live video. The blockchain can uniformly record the knowledge content creators, learners' participation, and promoters' promotion effects in the online education community, so that each participant can be motivated. Let everyone in this online education community ecosystem get sustainable and developable benefits.
6. Blockchain + education public welfare: trace the whereabouts of funds in real time, and realize the standardization and transparency of educational donations. In many cases, public welfare education funds are difficult to supervise; the whereabouts of the funds are unknown; and the donors receive insufficient spiritual motivation psychologically after charitable acts.
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Application cases of blockchain technology in the field of education
1. Blockcerts - academic certificate blockchain
Learning Machine partnered with MIT's Media Lab to create Blockerts - an open platform that can create and verify blockchain-based academic credentials. By creating records like academic transcripts and qualifications on the blockchain, Blockcerts can vet documents for trustworthiness and spot falsified information.
Academic achievements - grades, grade reports and even diplomas - can be stored on the Blockcerts blockchain and provide an immutable academic history.
2. APPII - Qualification Certificate Blockchain
APPII in the UK uses blockchain to verify qualifications. It utilizes blockchain, smart contracts, and machine learning technologies to verify the academic credentials of students and professors.
Users of APPII can create a personal profile and fill out their academic resume, including educational history and academic performance reports. APPII uses the blockchain to verify the user's background and lock their information on the blockchain.
3. Gilgamesh - knowledge sharing blockchain
Gilgamesh is a blockchain-based knowledge sharing platform.
Just like a social media website, students and authors can communicate and discuss novels or other works on the Gilgamesh platform, but the difference is that Gilgamesh will reward users with GIL tokens to encourage users to participate in content sharing, discussion and creation. These tokens can be used to purchase digitized academic books on the platform.
4. Zhihuitang - Link100 professional ability chain
In addition to providing services such as certificate anti-counterfeiting and talent selection, it is also focusing on building a decentralized professional ability consensus ecology: alliance ecology and platform ecology.
Link100 professional competence chain allows anyone and any organization to access on the basis of consensus, establish cooperation with well-known enterprises, and expand cooperation with professional intermediary agencies; establish alliances with universities, primary and secondary schools, and mutually authenticate and expand the scope of capabilities; cooperate with relevant authoritative governments Institutions cooperate to expand the scope of accreditation.
What are the challenges in applying blockchain technology in education?
1. There is little practical experience in the field of education, and there is resistance to promotion and operation
At present, domestic and foreign standards for the application of blockchain technology have not yet been popularized, and most of the research focuses on the financial field. Its promotion and operation in the education field will face the challenges of lack of policy protection and practical experience. First of all, due to the lack of policy protection and guidance, the attribute of decentralization will have a strong impact on traditional education management institutions, causing major losses to traditional education platforms in the distribution of benefits, leading to relevant institutions and departments' concerns about blockchain technology in the field of education. A cautious attitude towards application is not conducive to the large-scale promotion and application of blockchain technology.
2. Blockchain data storage is virtualized, and education data property rights are controversial
The decentralized feature of the blockchain has diluted the responsibilities of educational management agencies, and the work of student data management has been relatively weakened. Due to the characteristics of decentralization, the distributed storage and recording of data on the blockchain makes the property rights of student data blurred. The current data management in education is generally the responsibility of the school's academic affairs office, and the application of blockchain technology has diluted the responsibilities of the entity management department, making the data stored on the virtual blockchain. So who does the ownership of these virtual data belong to? Who does the right of use belong to? Who owns the ownership of the results based on data analysis? This series of data property rights issues will become an urgent problem to be solved in the further promotion and application of blockchain technology in the field of education.
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