Title: Blockchain technology: a tool to solve the challenges of the education sector in developing countries

Authors: Md. Aminul Islam; Shabbir Ahmed Shuvo

Addresses: Faculty of Engineering, Computing, and Mathematics, Oxford Brookes University, UK ' Faculty of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (IEF), University of Rostock, Universitätsplatz 1, 18055, Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

Abstract: Education is getting diversified, challenged, and blended with the overwhelming advancement of modern technology, which can be resolved using blockchain technology (BT). The fourth industrial revolution (4IR) is changing our experiences teaching and learning. Delivering lectures, interacting between learners and educators, evaluating learning outcomes, and verifying educational credentials might be smoother, easier, faster, cheaper, and jollier than before. We have demonstrated that blockchain technology can contribute to the education provider tackling all those existing problems to create a comfortable learning environment for all, irrespective of their economic backgrounds and geographic location. How BT can contribute to improving education is one of our priorities of research in this study. Firstly, this study reviews recent inventions in BT. Secondly, we have gone through the connection between BT and education. Additionally, it discusses strategies around the world. Few models are arranged to enable the reader's mind to inventions in the realm of educationists.

Keywords: blockchain; 4IR; educators; learning outcome; blockchain in education; education; sustainable education; modern education; challenges of education.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCSYSE.2024.137450

International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering, 2024 Vol.8 No.1/2, pp.75 - 86

Received: 05 Dec 2022
Accepted: 07 Mar 2023
Published online: 19 Mar 2024 *

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