Open AccessThe Recent Open Problem, Benefit and Challenge of Blockchain Technology in Education
Author(s) -
Meyliana Meyliana,
Surjandy Surjandy,
Yakob Utama Chandra,
Cadelina Cassandra,
Erick Fernando
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of recent technology and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2277-3878
DOI - 10.35940/ijrte.e6250.018520
Subject(s) - blockchain , cryptocurrency , government (linguistics) , certificate , higher education , engineering management , computer science , business , political science , engineering , world wide web , computer security , philosophy , linguistics , algorithm , law
The development of the education sector, especially the University at this time in Indonesia became the main focus of the government, the University was driven to become a leading university not only in the national scale but globally. The graduates of the university became an interesting topic to study because there is a gap between the Education and industry as a graduate user. Blockchain technology now is not only for cryptocurrency, but many researches nowadays believe that Blockchain technology can provide more benefits for universities Several studies mention Blockchain Technology can help in preventing fake diplomas certificate, libraries for borrowing books, and student loans. Those researches are still separated into several resources, so it is difficult to consolidate the benefits and challenges of using the Technology blockchain for universities. Therefore, this exploratory research tries to look for open problems, recent trends of the benefits and challenges of blockchain technology research in education sector as well as looking blockchain technology influence on the important elements in universities, such as people, process, and technology. This research will be conducted using a systematic method by reviewing literature from 9 well-known publishers such as (ACM, SAGE, IEEExplore, Taylor and Francis, Science Direct, Wiley, MDPI, AISEL, and Scopus index) to get a complete picture of blockchain technology in university. The study found the benefits and challenges of using Blockchain Technology and 70% of the important factors is on technology, 15% on people and 50% on processes.