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Published in: Computing 2/2024

13-10-2023 | Regular Paper

A systematic study on blockchain technology in education: initiatives, products, applications, benefits, challenges and research direction

Authors: Prity Rani, Rohit Kumar Sachan, Sonal Kukreja

Published in: Computing | Issue 2/2024

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Abstract

Blockchain facilitates the education sector from its unique bundles of characteristics, like decentralization, immutability, reliability, transparency, traceability, security, and integrity. These characteristics improve the ecosystem’s accountability, collaboration, credibility, identification, transparency, and trustability. Despite these attractive features and benefits, blockchain technology in education still needs to overcome many challenges that require consistent effort. This paper systematically studies leading blockchain proposals in the education sector. Our study mainly focuses on four categories: (i) Blockchain-based initiatives, (ii) Existing blockchain-based products/solutions, (iii) Applications/Use cases, benefits and challenges in the adoption of blockchain, and (iv) Future research direction in the education sector. We categorize the distinct challenges based on the Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework. This article covers research articles published in eight well-known scientific databases between 2017 and the first quarter of 2023. We screen the articles with the help of the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis) approach. This article also explores other educational areas that could benefit from blockchain due to its potential and attractive features.
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Metadata
Title
A systematic study on blockchain technology in education: initiatives, products, applications, benefits, challenges and research direction
Authors
Prity Rani
Rohit Kumar Sachan
Sonal Kukreja
Publication date
13-10-2023
Publisher
Springer Vienna
Published in
Computing / Issue 2/2024
Print ISSN: 0010-485X
Electronic ISSN: 1436-5057
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00607-023-01228-z

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