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Application Research of the New Mode of “Blockchain + Higher Education”

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Application of Intelligent Systems in Multi-modal Information Analytics (MMIA 2020)

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As one of the subversive technologies that cause great changes in human society after information technology and Internet technology, blockchain technology has been applied in many fields, and its performance in the field of education and teaching is also expected. Against this background, this paper studies the application of the new mode of “blockchain + higher education”. Based on the analysis of the connotation and technical characteristics of “blockchain +”, it explains the various application scenarios of the new mode of “blockchain + higher education”, studies the problems existing in the application, and finally puts forward the corresponding improvement ideas, so as to provide reference for the follow-up research of higher education theory and practice based on blockchain technology.

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  1. College of Technology and Art Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, China

    Zhenxing Ge & Ying Hu

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  1. Department of Decision and Information Sciences, and Center for Data Science and Big Data Analytics, Oakland University, School of Business Administration, Rochester, MI, USA

    Vijayan Sugumaran

  2. Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Shanghai, China

    Zheng Xu

  3. Department of Informatics, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

    Huiyu Zhou

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Ge, Z., Hu, Y. (2021). Application Research of the New Mode of “Blockchain + Higher Education”. In: Sugumaran, V., Xu, Z., Zhou, H. (eds) Application of Intelligent Systems in Multi-modal Information Analytics. MMIA 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1233. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51431-0_61

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