EPPR: blockchain for educational record sharing and recommendation using the Ethereum platform. (24th September 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Alkouz, Akram; HajYasien, Ahmed; Alarabeyyat, Abdulsalam; Samara, Khalid; Al-Saleh, Mohammed I.
• Is Part Of: International journal of grid and utility computing. Volume 12:Number 3(2021)
• Page Start: 347
• Page End: 356
• Publication Date: 2021-09-24
• Subjects: educational professional personal record -- blockchain -- Ethereum -- general data protection rules -- recommender engine -- semantic graph; Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing -- Periodicals; Electronic commerce -- Management -- Computer programs -- Periodicals; 004.605
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1741-847X

Abstract

There has been a great deal of discussion of the challenges on privacy of Educational Professional Personal Record (EPPR). Therefore, it is required to reassess the current models, in which various parties generate, exchange and observe a huge amount of personal data with regard to EPPR. Ethereum blockchain has shown that trusted, auditable transactions are detectible using a decentralised network of nodes. In this paper, we propose a novel decentralised framework to manage EPPR using Ethereum blockchain. The framework provides the owner of the EPPR a comprehensive immutable log and accessibility to their educational records across the educational record editors and consumers. Furthermore, it provides a recommender engine to endorse skills and competencies to the education record owners and similar candidates for educational records editors and consumers. The aim of the proposed framework is to enable educational stakeholders to participate in the network as blockchain miners rewarded by pseudonymised data.