BLOCKCHAIN IN EDUCATION: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS

Abstract

<strong>Abstract</strong> The article is devoted to one of the ways of digitalization of education, which has not yet taken its rightful place - blockchain technology. It is concluded that in the context of globalization there is a significant transformation of the global educational process, which is associated with the introduction of information and communication technologies. Blockchain technology opens up fundamentally new opportunities for the education system, forms the conditions for the educational system to reach a qualitatively new level of development. The use of blockchain technology in the education system is associated with its ability to collect information, store it in an unchanged form, control the reliability of data, create rules and methods of management activities. The main directions of blockchain use in the digital transformation of education are described. However, new challenges to education from the "fourth industrial revolution" pose new, global challenges to the use of blockchain. This raises the problem of identifying and exploring new possibilities for the use of blockchain technology in education. The advantages of blockchain technology (distributed ledger) are described, which enable its use in the Global Education Space to solve new problems: the creation of common global educational services and resources, the collection of big data of the world countries on the implementation of SDGs, the unification of cross-country approaches to the implementation of the Global Action Programme on Education for Sustainable Development and the Roadmap.