Blockchain possibilities in Education
Abstract The blockchain is a new technology that is breaking through in many fields, and also in the educational system. But it is not a specific technology which you can expect to improve a concrete situation: It is more a technology that allows registering events from an innovative form. And this can be translated into unsuspected changes. After presenting what Blockchain is and some examples of social uses, in the applications currently in use, there is an analysis of the problems to which the technology aims to answer. A review of the most outstanding experiences, all in an early phase of development, leads us to some critical conclusions about its viability.
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Bartolomé, A. (2011). Comunicación y aprendizaje en la Sociedad del Conocimiento. Virtualidad, Educación y Ciencia, 2(2), 9-46. https://goo.gl/4hijLb
Bartolomé, A. & Grané, M. (2013). Interrogantes educativos desde la sociedad del conocimiento. Aloma. Revista de Psicologia, Ciències de l’Educació i de l’Esport, 31(1), 73-82. https://goo.gl/ixiUEV
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García-Peñalvo, F. J., Fidalgo-Blanco, Á. & Sein-Echaluce, M. L. (2018). An adaptive hybrid MOOC model: Disrupting the MOOC concept in higher education. Telematics and Informatics, 35, 1018-1030. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2017.09.012
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Griffiths, D. & García-Peñalvo, F. J. (2016). Informal learning recognition and management. Computers in Human Behavior, 55A, 501-503. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.10.019
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Koulaidis, V. (2018). La tecnologi?a Blockchain como herramienta pedago?gica. En A. Bartolomé & J.M. Moral-Ferrer: Blockchain en Educación. Cadenas rompiendo moldes, pp. 81-86. Barcelona: LMI. Colección Transmedia XXI.
La Belle, T. J. (1982). Formal, nonformal and informal education: A holistic perspective on lifelong learning. International Review of Education, 28(2), 159-175. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00598444
Longworth. N. (2005). El aprendizaje a lo largo de la vida en la práctica. Transformar la educación en el siglo XXI. Barcelona: Paidós.
Martín Ortega, E. (2008). Aprender a aprender: clave para el aprendizaje a lo largo de la vida. Estudios- Investigaciones, 72.
Mehta, N. B., Hull, A. L., Young, J. B. & Stoller, J. K. (2013). Just imagine: new paradigms for medical education. Academic Medicine, 88(10), 1418-1423. https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0b013e3182a36a07
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Sánchez i Peris, F. J. (2015). Gamificación. Education in the Knowledge Society, 16(2), 13-15. https://doi.org/10.14201/eks20151621315
Schmidt, P. (2016). Blockcerts — An Open Infrastructure for Academic Credentials on the Blockchain. MLLearning (24/10/2016).
Sharples, M., de Roock, R., Ferguson, R., Gaved, M., Herodotou, C., Koh, E., Kukulska-Hulme, A., Looi, C-K, McAndrew, P., Rienties, B., Weller, M. & Wong, L. H. (2016). Innovating Pedagogy 2016: Open University Innovation Report 5. Milton Keynes: The Open University. http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/innovating/
Sharples, M. & Domingue, J. (2018). Registro, reputacio?n y recompensas en educacio?n, basados en Blockchains. En A. Bartolomé & J. M. Moral-Ferrer: Blockchain en Educación. Cadenas rompiendo moldes, pp. 107-118. Barcelona: LMI. Colección Transmedia XXI.
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Wright, A. & De Filippi, P. (2015). Decentralized Blockchain Technology and the Rise of Lex Cryptographia. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2580664
Bartolomé, A., & Lindín, C. (2019). Blockchain possibilities in Education. Education in The Knowledge Society, 19(4), 81–93. https://doi.org/10.14201/eks20181948193
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