November 15, 2024

Why blockchain in higher education?

Author: Ray Schroeder
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LAURA ASCIONE, eCampus News

A new report from the American Council on Education (ACE), funded by the U.S. Department of Education, examines blockchain’s potential in bridging a troubling and expanding gap between higher education and the labor market. Blockchain–a technology that is a “shared, distributed ledger technology (DLT) that uses an agreed-upon and encrypted process to ensure that information on the ledger is tamper-proof, and that the data on the blockchain can be trusted even without centralized, third-party validation”– consists of three layers, as outlined by authors Kerri Lemoie and Louis Soares.

https://www.ecampusnews.com/2020/07/15/why-blockchain-in-higher-education/

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