1st Edition

Supporting Higher Education 4.0 with Blockchain Critical Analyses of Automation, Data, Digital Currency, and Other Disruptive Applications

Edited By Grażyna Paliwoda-Pękosz, Piotr Soja Copyright 2024
216 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores the current and future impacts of blockchain technologies, such as cryptocurrency, on the education system. 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,... Read more

Blockchain technology in Education 4.0: An introduction

Grażyna Paliwoda-Pękosz and Piotr Soja

1. Towards Education 4.0: Challenges and opportunities

Paweł Konkol and Dariusz Dymek

2. Blockchain as a disruptive technology in Education 4.0

Janusz Stal and Dariusz Put

3. Supporting the management of educational institutions using blockchain

Jan Trąbka and Mariusz Grabowski

4. Management of student-centred learning with blockchain

Mariusz Grabowski and Paweł Konkol

5. Addressing labour market challenges with blockchain

Dariusz Put and Jan Trąbka

6. Teaching blockchain: The case of the MSc in Blockchain and Digital Currency of the University of Nicosia

Marinos Themistocleous

7. Academic certificates issued on blockchain: The case of the University of Nicosia and Block.co

Marinos Themistocleous, Klitos Christodoulou and Elias Iosif

8. Blockchain’s impact on education: Current landscape and prospects for the future

Dariusz Dymek and Janusz Stal

Biography

Grażyna Paliwoda-Pękosz is Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics at Krakow University of Economics, Poland.

Piotr Soja is Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics at Krakow University of Economics, Poland.