Chapter: 'The Blockchain and Kudos: A Distributed System for Educational Record, Reputation and Reward' from book: Adaptive and Adaptable Learning: 11th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2016, Lyon, France, September 13-16, 2016, Proceedings

• Glavni avtor: Mike Sharples (auth)
• Drugi avtorji: John Domingue (auth)
• Format: Elektronski Book Chapter
• Jezik: angleščina
• Izdano: Springer Nature 2016
• Serija: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Teme: blockchain; self-determined learning; reputation management; records of achievement; e-portfolios
• Online dostop: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The 'blockchain' is the core mechanism for the Bitcoin digital payment system. It embraces a set of inter-related technologies: the blockchain itself as a distributed record of digital events, the distributed consensus method to agree whether a new block is legitimate, automated smart cont...