Enhancing Blockchain Technology Education with Innovative Active Learning

Abstract

As an emerging technology that has already impacted various sectors including finance, energy, education, and more, blockchain provides a decentralized ledger system that ensures the integrity of the recorded transactions. With its wide application comes the huge demand for blockchain researchers and engineers, however, most schools have not offered courses related to blockchain research and development. To fill the gap between the increasing needs for blockchain professionals and shortage of blockchain curriculum, we propose a portable labware that covers the complete cycle of blockchain development. In this labware we apply active learning strategies to engage students in learning the blockchain knowledge more efficiently and effectively.