[Blockchain] application of blockchain technology in education field

Series The first article is mainly from the point of view of commodity circulation, through the analysis of the consumer in the current supply chain problems encountered, gradually extending the current supply chain in the upstream and downstream of the system can not solve the problem of information systems, to find pain points, and then combined with the blockchain technology characteristics to give a solution. This article is the second article in this series, mainly from the current education field encountered problems, through the analysis of the problem, combined with the whole education system of the information and blockchain natural characteristics, to try to analyze its pain point, and for the pain point to give a preliminary solution.

In the field of education analysis, we can choose from the Ministry of Education on the reform of the college entrance examination of the action to cut into the analysis.

First, students ' quality education reform. The use of a variety of information to assess the students ' ability to avoid the ' one test for a lifetime ' because of accidental factors and give students the unsatisfactory results of the situation.

Second, some provinces from the previous small comprehensive transformation of the college entrance examination for the big comprehensive.

Third, take Shanghai Jiangsu as the representative of the annual HKCEE results into the admission factors of the college entrance examination.

Its four, increase the scale of independent enrollment.

In view of the above four items, we will find that the main is divided into two categories: one is the entrance examination process to include more data for evaluation, while not only using the results of the college entrance examination, but also reference students other assessment data to provide the most admission support. The other is to examine the students in the situation outside the examination, such as the annual examination data, to comprehensively evaluate the students throughout the high school learning life, to comprehensively assess the students ' ability.

In view of these two types of problems, according to the current information system construction situation, there are at least the following four pain points:

First, on the whole evaluation system, whether the annual examination results and small college entrance examination and other additional assessment results can reflect the real ability of the students. Whether to consider adding more factors, such as related to student conduct, morality, practical ability and other important chronicle can be included in the assessment elements.

Second, the information into the fine granularity is sufficient, whether the need to go into the weekly learning situation input, the daily job completion of the granularity to better support the capacity model.

Third, whether the data included in the whole system will not be tampered with by various factors, such as human evil, input system is attacked and so on.

Four, the entire student information data currently does not exist a complete circulation channel. At present, the information recorded in student files is relatively limited, and the whole data process from primary education to higher education cannot be stored temporarily. If this data is available, prospective employers will be able to see more complete data in a clear and transparent manner, and will be better able to judge the student's career more fully.

Above four pain points, we can find the answer from the Blockchain feature. Let's start with a brief review of the blockchain four features mentioned in the previous article:

(i) Multi-stakeholder participation, to Central/intermediary trust.

(ii) Greater stability, reliability and sustainability in the overall technical framework.

(iii) through the technical intermediary, to achieve the entire transaction.

(iv) Openness, transparency and non-falsification of transactions.

Therefore, we can see that the blockchain technology is a natural fit to solve the product traceability and circulation of pain points.

For pain point one and pain point two, we can through the multi-party participation in the blockchain, together maintain the form of the same ledger, as far as possible to introduce multiple information. The more participants, the more data they co-maintain, the easier it is to bring more data trust endorsements to students. At the same time can also be more comprehensive description of students in all aspects of quality and ability.

For the pain point three, the blockchain itself decentralized characteristics, distributed network natural to overcome the central system of all kinds of drawbacks, at the same time its characteristics of the intermediary to avoid the possibility of man-made evil, avoid a part of the people through interpersonal relationships to modify the possibility of data.

For the pain point four, through the blockchain to the student learning data throughout the chain, not only through the student life always, but also for the subsequent student information into the credit system or other systems to provide non-tamper with the real information.

In addition, for the whole student data on the chain mode, but also to open up the students at this end. For example, we can link parents, schools, teachers this end, with more teaching resources, through the student points reward mechanism to improve students ' enthusiasm for the chain of data. Let students realize that the introduction of blockchain is more than just a chain of data, which is good for the school, the employer, but also for the additional rewards that are brought about by excellence.

Therefore, for the education blockchain, we should not just think of blockchain as a distributed chain ledger that records student information, we should innovate in the whole model. At the same time, students ' information is beneficial to the subject of the downstream parties, the students themselves should have a positive feedback tool, and finally, under the premise of multi-party participation, we can form students ' self-study autonomy system to promote students ' growth and realize the ideal goal of overall improvement of students ' quality and ability.