Blockchain Technology Enhances Sustainable Higher Education
Autor: | Cătălin Gheorghiță, Rocsana Bucea-Manea-Țoniş, Violeta Elena Simion, Milena Ilić, Valentin Kuleto, Radu Bucea-Manea-Țoniş, Oliva Martins |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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blockchain
Higher education Smart contract E-learning (theory) media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development Exploratory research TJ807-830 Management Monitoring Policy and Law E-learning artificial intelligence (AI) TD194-195 Artificial intelligence (AI) Renewable energy sources Case method Blockchain Cronbach's alpha Mathematics education GE1-350 Distributed ledger technology (DLT) e-learning media_common Higher education (HE) Teamwork Environmental effects of industries and plants Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment business.industry Environmental sciences sustainable education (SE) Content analysis Sustainable education massive open online courses (MOOCs) Massive open online courses (MOOC) educational platforms business Psychology Higher education institution (HEI) Educational platforms |
Zdroj: | Sustainability, Vol 13, Iss 12347, p 12347 (2021) Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP) instacron:RCAAP Sustainability Volume 13 Issue 22 |
ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
Popis: | This research investigates blockchain technology, focusing on the influence of motivation on collaborative work, which positively influences learning performance in Higher Education Institutions (HEI). In addition, blockchain technology is correlated with decentralisation, security and integrity, and anonymity and encryption. It can also be perceived as a consensus mechanism, rewarding students, professors, and universities as a smart contract. Therefore, this technology has been used to improve higher education. It also allows less informed people to interact with better-informed peers and mentors. Finally, this study aims to enhance the current state of blockchain applications comprehension. The methodology used for this research includes document analysis, literature review, content analysis (blockchain platforms), the case study method, and the survey method. In statistical considerations, aiming to evaluate indicators, this research presents the Composite Reliability Analysis, Cronbach Alpha Coefficients, and the Bootstrapping method (Variance Inflation Factor). All these analyses aimed to present a designed research model. This exploratory research gathered data from 150 students at 3 universities in Serbia, Romania, and Portugal. As demonstrated, using student motivation has a significant and positive impact on the quality of student collaborative work. Student collaborative work also correlates with students’ higher level of engagement in the educational process, and the more engaged students are, the better their learning outcomes will be. As a result, in higher education, student involvement boosted learning outcomes. Researchers found that motivation, teamwork, and student involvement were important factors in improving student learning outcomes, as were blockchain-based tools. The results from the quantitative analysis indicate that Collaborative work, Motivation, Engagement, MOOCs, AR, VR, Gamification, and Online class were associated with learning performance. info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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