Creating a Decentralized Blockchain to Store University Data and Payment of University Course Material Through the Use of a Smart Contract

Abstract

The use of blockchain technology gives universities the opportunity to create their own blockchain. By rethinking the Bologna program applied in education, in the future, universities will be able to work together even more closely in the field of joint curriculum development. It can be observed that different universities teach the same subjects. As a result, university lecturers have even more burdens outside of teaching, as lecturers must prepare the same teaching materials for each university. The aim of the research is to create a blockchain in practice, as well as to present it in detail, where university lecturers could upload uniformly prepared teaching materials. In the long run, a unified and universally accepted university curriculum will certainly bring many advantages. If the university also wants to upload paid course content to the blockchain, a smart contract must be used. With the help of a smart contract, payments for teaching materials would be carried out in an automated manner, so additional burdens could be taken off the shoulders of universities. Since the blocks in the blockchain are closely built on top of each other, it is difficult to modify them with the educational materials stored in them. Since universities must provide students with up-to-date knowledge, the teaching materials must also be up to date. The modification of teaching materials at specified intervals could be solved using the Soft-Fork blockchain process.