Blockchain Based Open Education Platform

Abstract

E-learning is a growing market that within the coming few years may double in size due to rapid improvements in technology, such as the rise of cloud computing, in addition to the sudden closure of education and work facilities that took place during Covid19 which paved the way towards more expansions in remote services. Such sudden changes have motivated the transformation of teaching and working from on-site to online settings. Provided the majority of ICT* are still mainly centralized which allows the world to develop and our daily routines to continue. Blockchain, on the other hand, can offer good services for education, such as this platform, and find solutions to some faced dilemmas, such as price souring and the censorship of control that are found on centralized platforms. Cost efficiency and the ease of implementation that blockchain networks provide, combined with efforts that communities of developers lend a hand for, have made it possible for some applications, such as voting and supply chain control, to surge from such implementations. Some blockchain based platforms are already serving customers with video streaming, however, particularly for education and teaching, it is still far behind the centralized one as there is no obvious development to mention which calls for this project to rise. A centralized server, within a virtual environment, backed up by data stored on a blockchain based network helps deliver the final product of the project. The hassle is that centralized platforms empower features that cause price fragility, and stationed themselves on a single point of failure that blockchain based networks can tackle even when involved partially. Regarding traditional mitigations towards these issues, blockchain as a concept differs and introduces itself in consistency with community ambitions, like those who suffer financially and have needs to access cheaper content to get qualified. This project is willing to stand up as a PoC, provided some components of the final product may appear in centralized form as it is still difficult to only depend on blockchain based services.