Exploring digital skills cultivation through a blockchain-enabled ‘digital-intelligent workshop’

Abstract

Due to the rapid development of new generation information technology worldwide, universities’ cultivation of digital and intelligent talents has become a necessity of the times. To address the common challenges in traditional practice-oriented teaching, including outdated course design, insufficient authenticity of experimental environments, and cross-institutional trust deficits in student evaluation, this study takes the ‘Digital-Intelligence Workshop’ as the implementation context. Guided by the principles of emerging engineering education, a student-centered philosophy, and an OBE- and project-driven teaching framework, the study systematically improves the curriculum system. By introducing a blockchain-enabled data governance layer, this platform ensures the tamper-resistance of learning records, enables secure data sharing between universities and enterprises, and facilitates transparent smart-contract-based assessments. This article shows that by carrying out interdisciplinary collaboration and real enterprise case projects on the trusted training platform, students’ digital thinking and algorithm practice abilities have significantly improved, and teachers have also made progress in achievement transformation. Relevant teaching practices indicate that the blockchain-enabled ‘Digital Intelligence Workspace’ effectively promotes the improvement of talent cultivation quality in universities, providing a feasible new approach and practical reference for undergraduate education reform in the era of intelligence.