Expedition to the blockchain application potential for higher education institutions

IF 5.3 2区材料科学 Q2 MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

ACS Applied Nano Materials Pub Date : 2024-09-01 DOI:10.1016/j.bcra.2024.100203

Matthias Gottlieb , Christina Deutsch , Felix Hoops , Hans Pongratz , Helmut Krcmar

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In the education sector, blockchain is currently at the end of the peak of inflated expectations in Gartner’s Hype Cycle. Thus, it is crucial to understand whether this technology meets the expectations of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). We go on an expedition to identify blockchain application scenarios and its potential for HEI administration—the universities are digitalized to just 23.3%.

Current information systems research addresses classifications of blockchain-based projects (application level) rather than their technical realization (protocol level). Thus, when evaluating blockchain application scenarios in HEI administration, we intensively consider the technical side of blockchain-based projects. We perform a three-step approach: (1) systematic literature review, (2) qualitative exploratory semi-structured interviews to supplement information on market-ready solutions, and (3) an evaluation of the potential of the blockchain-based projects identified, based on HEI administration requirements.

We find that the leading blockchain application scenarios are credential verification and record-sharing. At the protocol level, we obtain equivocal results regarding the technical realization of projects, e.g., their underlying blockchain types and storage models. At the application level, when discussing the potential of different projects, we find that most of them address adaptability, complexity decomposition, and cost reduction requirements between HEIs; interest diversity and stakeholder collaboration between HEIs and business actors; privacy and trust between HEIs and students.

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探索高等教育机构的区块链应用潜力

在教育领域，区块链目前正处于 Gartner Hype Cycle 中夸大期望的顶峰末期。因此，了解这项技术是否符合高等教育机构（HEIs）的期望至关重要。目前的信息系统研究针对的是基于区块链的项目分类（应用层面），而不是其技术实现（协议层面）。因此，在评估高校管理中的区块链应用场景时，我们着重考虑了基于区块链项目的技术层面。我们采取了三步走的方法：（1）系统性文献综述；（2）定性探索性半结构式访谈，以补充市场上已有解决方案的信息；（3）根据高等院校管理要求，评估已确定的基于区块链项目的潜力。在协议层面，我们在项目的技术实现方面（如底层区块链类型和存储模型）获得了不确定的结果。在应用层面，当讨论不同项目的潜力时，我们发现大多数项目都能满足高等院校之间的适应性、复杂性分解和降低成本要求；高等院校和商业参与者之间的利益多样性和利益相关者合作；高等院校和学生之间的隐私和信任。

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ACS Applied Nano Materials Multiple-

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8.30

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3.40%

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1601

期刊介绍： ACS Applied Nano Materials is an interdisciplinary journal publishing original research covering all aspects of engineering, chemistry, physics and biology relevant to applications of nanomaterials. The journal is devoted to reports of new and original experimental and theoretical research of an applied nature that integrate knowledge in the areas of materials, engineering, physics, bioscience, and chemistry into important applications of nanomaterials.