THE COMBINATION OF THE BLOCKCHAIN AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES

Blockchain: Blockchain is block - chain technology, allowing data transmission safely based on an extremely complicated encryption system, as the accountant’s ledger of a company, where money is managed closely and noted every transaction on peer-to-peer (P2P).

Each block contains information about the initialization time and is connected to the previous block, accompanied by a timecode and transaction data. The data cannot change after being accepted by the network. Blockchain is designed to be against cheating, changing of data.

So, what is Blockchain related to educational activities?

In education, the information about the training target as transcript and student’s personal information which are usually archived under the form of paper or at centralized database system, set up on the spot. These forms have the weakness that hard to ensure security, exact content in a long time, for example, the paper can be destroyed and lost because of disasters like a flood or fire. Database servers can be the target of hackers to steal information, destroy data.

Applying Blockchain in education can bring many effects. Blockchain technology guarantees the encoding and users’ information security like the personal biography, transcript, certificate, degree, training process, teaching history, learning material, scientific research, etc. Applying Blockchain in users’ data management helps users protect their personal information and have all rights to share their data to training, financial, recruitment organizations.

Besides, Blockchain also helps the State management agency manage the data of the branch, regulation, secret file and transmit information safely to agencies under management, school, training organizations, related organizations and individuals.

Moreover, Blockchain also helps organizations that are not in the field can approach potential users through the Decentralized ID mechanism (DID) to bring many services, preferential treatments, utilities to customers.