Niki Chatzipanagiotou
Senior lecturer
'It Has a Lot of Potential!': : Use of Blockchain Technology for Education Records
Author
Summary, in English
The research adopts the interpretive qualitative approach and collects data through a focus group interview with university students. Computer assisted thematic data analysis yields five key themes: current usage of university education records, understanding how blockchain works, sustainability of blockchain, security of blockchain and implementation of blockchain for education records. Participants were generally positive towards the use of blockchain for the management of education records and saw it as one of the potential future solutions. Nevertheless, they voiced some reservations regarding the high energy consumption, costs and security towards a possible use of the blockchain technology. Therefore, careful implementation would be needed, with increased focus on usability, solving some security and sustainability issues and ensuring a fair and transparent access model.This research contributes to the current body of knowledge within informatics by empowering students to share their perception of possible development of student record systems based on blockchain technology. It also provides insights which can be used in the future to achieve a more user focused design of education records management systems.
Publishing year
2021-02-04
Language
English
Publication/Series
2020 Proceedings of the 2nd Linnaeus Student Conference on Information Technology: The Impact of Information Technology on Society
Document type
Conference paper
Topic
- Information Systems
Conference name
The 2nd Linnaeus Student Conference on Information Technology
Conference date
2020-09-24 - 2020-09-25
Conference place
Växjö, Sweden
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 978-91-89283-51-0