TY  - GEN
AU  - Mike Sharples
AU  - John Domingue
TI  - Chapter: 'The Blockchain and Kudos: A Distributed System for Educational Record, Reputation and Reward' from book: Adaptive and Adaptable Learning: 11th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2016, Lyon, France, September 13-16, 2016, Proceedings
SN  - 978-3-319-45153-4_48
PY  - 2016///
PB  - Springer Nature
KW  - blockchain
KW  - self-determined learning
KW  - reputation management
KW  - records of achievement
KW  - e-portfolios
N1  - Open Access
N2  - The ‘blockchain’ is the core mechanism for the Bitcoin digital payment system. It embraces a set of inter-related technologies: the blockchain itself as a distributed record of digital events, the distributed consensus method to agree whether a new block is legitimate, automated smart contracts, and the data structure associated with each block. We propose a permanent distributed record of intellectual effort and associated reputational reward, based on the blockchain that instantiates and democratises educational reputation beyond the academic community. We are undertaking initial trials of a private blockchain or storing educational records, drawing also on our previous research into reputation management for educational systems
UR  - https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-45153-4_48
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/63269
ER  -