Journal of Engineering Education Transformations

Journal of Engineering Education Transformations

Year: 2020, Volume: 33, Issue: Special Issue, Pages: 608-612

Original Article

Block Chain for Tertiary Education

Abstract

Tertiary Education is expanded exponentially over a decade, in India. The statutory authorities are striving for inducing the quality in tertiary education through Outcome Based Education as one of the major transformations. The phoney credentials are culminating the initiatives and affecting the right spirit of transformation initiatives. Blockchain, a disruptive technology, with its public, secure and unique distributed ledger brings transparency to the details of students, faculty and Institutions, enabling the stakeholders and statutory bodies like AICTE, UGC, affiliating university to access genuine information from the data stored in the blockchain.

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