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

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Synopsis
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, and resilience. What role, then, could it play in fostering transformative approaches such as student-centred teaching and learning, distributed learning environments, and lifelong learning? This book provides essential perspectives into blockchain applications and challenges within education and offers a broader view of blockchain technology against existing information and communication technologies used in education. Spanning the effects on institutions, students, and the labor market, these chapters offer critical reviews and analyses of current research, practical first-hand applications of blockchain in education, and original conceptual models.
Copyright:
2024

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781000931099
Related ISBNs:
9781032328973, 9781003318736, 9781032332123
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
selection and editorial matter, Grażyna Paliwoda-Pękosz, Piotr Soja
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Computers and Internet, Technology, Education
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Grażyna Paliwoda-Pękosz
Edited by:
Piotr Soja

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