Deploying Blockchain in Education: Security, Challenges, and Solutions

Abstract

The recent inventions and developments in the existing technologies and the accessibility of high-speed connections are highly involved in each and every point of our day-to-day lives. This advancement brought about numerous challenges, especially the ones associated with security. Blockchain technology, which is no doubt, is amongst the most powerful and ambitious developments of the last two decades, seeks attentiveness for its future aspects to deliver safety, security, and integrity in all the sectors involving shipping, medicine, supply chain management, to name a few. The education field, like all other fields, is in need to deploy the advantages and conveniences that blockchain technology provides. All the academic organizations are now eagerly anticipating to deploy this application to advance the schooling and studying undertakings and advance association among the collaborators like the learners, educators, and guardians, along with providing security measures. It can be used in e- transcripts, certification, and electronic degrees, cloud storage, and individuality regulation. This paper discusses blockchain technology and its uses which can be utilized by the education sector for its advancement.