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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Sharples, Mike
• Domingue, John

Titel

Chapter: The Blockchain and Kudos: A Distributed System for Educational Record, Reputation and Reward from book: Adaptive and Adaptable Learning: 11th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2016, Lyon, France, September 13-16, 2016, Proceedings

Ort / Verlag

Springer

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Link zum Volltext

• DOAB - Directory of Open Access Books (ZDB-94-OAB)
• DOAB - Directory of Open Access Books (ZDB-94-OAB)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Open Access
• The 'blockchain' is the core mechanism for the Bitcoin digital payment system. It embraces a set of inter-related technologies: the blockchain itself as a distributed record of digital events, the distributed consensus method to agree whether a new block is legitimate, automated smart contracts, and the data structure associated with each block. We propose a permanent distributed record of intellectual effort and associated reputational reward, based on the blockchain that instantiates and democratises educational reputation beyond the academic community. We are undertaking initial trials of a private blockchain or storing educational records, drawing also on our previous research into reputation management for educational systems
• English