An Overview of Blockchain for Higher Education

Timothy Arndt

2019

Abstract

Blockchain technology is one of the most widely acclaimed technologies of recent years. It enables the creation of distributed applications involving multiple actors or organizations in which transactions and data are not under the control of a central authority. Transactions are stored in a distributed public ledger in an immutable format in such a way that they can be verified by participants. This disintermediation promises to remove much of the “friction” (and lower costs) from distributed transactions by cutting out the intermediary party, thus enabling a variety of applications in finance, government, health, etc. This paper provides an overview of recent research in the application of blockchain technology to higher education for those who are interested in working in this area or just understanding how higher education may be positively impacted in the future by blockchain.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Arndt T. (2019). An Overview of Blockchain for Higher Education. In Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2019) - Volume 3: KMIS; ISBN 978-989-758-382-7, SciTePress, pages 231-235. DOI: 10.5220/0008343902310235

in Bibtex Style

@conference{kmis19,
author={Timothy Arndt},
title={An Overview of Blockchain for Higher Education},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2019) - Volume 3: KMIS},
year={2019},
pages={231-235},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008343902310235},
isbn={978-989-758-382-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2019) - Volume 3: KMIS
TI - An Overview of Blockchain for Higher Education
SN - 978-989-758-382-7
AU - Arndt T.
PY - 2019
SP - 231
EP - 235
DO - 10.5220/0008343902310235
PB - SciTePress