Practices of Using Blockchain Technology in e-Learning

ABSTRACT

The COVID-19 pandemic has led online learning mode to be extremely popular all over the world. It is conceivable that people will gradually adapt to the convenience and low-cost advantages of e-learning mode, even for a long time after the end of the pandemic. However, the e-learning mode has relatively low credibility in the traditional academic and degree certification education system. Applying blockchain technology on e-learning system can help to solve the lack of credit system in the education field. We propose a blockchain-enhanced e-learning ecosystem that can provide functions such as learning behavior recording, degree certificate verificating, courseware resource protecting, transaction book tracking, and cross-institutional recognizing of academic qualifications, which can effectively help build an online education credit system, for some major educational application scenarios, such as inter-institutional lifelong education, inter-disciplinary education, and modern vocational education system. © 2021 ACM.