scholarly journals Forgery Protection of Academic Certificates through Integrity Preservation at Scale using Ethereum Smart Contract

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 673-688
Author(s):  
Auqib Hamid Lone ◽  
Roohie Naaz
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Regulatory Body ◽  
Signature Scheme ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Universities And Colleges ◽  
Smart Contract ◽  
Reliable Model ◽  
The World ◽  
Multi Level

Academic credentials are precious assets as they form an evidence for one’s identity and eligibility. Fraud inissuance and verification of academic certificates have been a long-standing issue in academic community. Due to lack of antiforgery mechanisms there has been substantial increase in fraudulent certificates. The need of the hour is to have a transparent and reliable model for issuing and verifying academic certificates to eliminate fraud in the process. Decentralized, Auditable and Tamper-proof properties of Blockchain makes it possibly the best choice for issuing and verifying academic certificates. In this paper we propose a model, where regulatory body authorizes higher education Institutes (universities and colleges) for issuing academic certificates to students in a decentralized way. Anyone in the world can verify the authenticity of the certificate by triggering appropriate smart contract functions, thus eliminating any possibility of fraud in the process. In addition we used multi signature scheme where certificates are required to be signed by designated authority from Higher Education Institutes, thus allowing for multi-level checks on certificate contents before being successfully deployed on Blockchain. We have also provide Proof of Concept in Ethereum Blockchain and evaluated its performance in terms of cost, security and scalability.

scholarly journals The academic life: small worlds, different worlds

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
William L. Locke
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
Small Worlds ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Higher Education And Society ◽  
Education And Society

The Academic Life: Small Worlds, Different Worlds represented an impressive investigation of the largest and most complex national academic community in the world, which seriously attempted a detailed representation of the variations in its form. Its ethnographic orientation to understanding the internal academic life through exploratory interviews with individual faculty in different types of institution and a range of disciplines provided subtle and complex insights. The strength of its subsequent influence on scholars in this field, however, may have restricted analysis of broader transformations in higher education and society and the related restructuring of academic work and careers.

scholarly journals A recommendation-based reading list system prototype for learning and resource management

2021 ◽  
pp. 016555152110065
Author(s):  
Gobinda Chowdhury ◽  
Kushwanth Koya ◽  
Mariam Bugaje
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Specific Subject ◽  
Reading List ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Library Staff ◽  
System Prototype ◽  
Implementation Stage

A reading list is a list of reading items recommended by an academic to assist students’ acquisition of knowledge for a specific subject. Subsequently, the libraries of higher education institutions collect and assemble reading lists according to specific courses and offer the students the reading list service. However, the reading list is created based on localised intelligence, restricted to the academic’s knowledge of their field, semantics, experience and awareness of developments. This investigation aims to present the views and comments of academics, and library staff, on an envisaged aggregated reading list service, which aggregates recommended reading items from various higher education institutions. This being the aim, we build a prototype, which aggregates reading lists from different universities and showcase it to 19 academics and library staff in various higher education institutions to capture their views, comments and any recommendations. In the process, we also showcase the feasibility of collecting and aggregating reading lists, in addition to understanding the process of reading lists creation at their respective higher education institutions. The prototype successfully showcases the creation of ranked lists of reading items, authors, topics, modules and courses. Academics and library staff indicated that aggregated lists would collectively benefit the academic community. Consequently, recommendations in the form of process implementations and technological applications are made to overcome and successfully implement the proposed aggregated reading list service. This proof-of-concept demonstrates potential benefits for the academic community and identifies further challenges to overcome in order to scale it up to the implementation stage.

scholarly journals Effective Regulation of the Israeli Higher Education System in the Global and Neoliberal Era

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Nitza Davidovitch ◽  
Erez Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
High Standard ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Regulatory Body ◽  
Market Failures ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Findings

For over six decades Israel’s system of higher education has been managed by the Ministry of Education and the Council for Higher Education (CHE). During this period, significant transitions have occurred in the academic system throughout the world and in Israel, leaving their mark on research and teaching and on the related regulatory agencies. The purpose of the study is to examine the need for regulation of higher education in a capitalist world, with Israel serving as a case study. The study examines the CHE’s management of changes that occurred in the academic world and the overall considerations utilized by the pilots of this regulatory agency, which led to shaping policy from a perspective of time and with an eye to the challenges of the future, in comparison to supervisory agencies around the world. The research method is based on research literature addressing the system of higher education in Israel and elsewhere as well as on interviews with senior academics occupying key positions in the CHE in the past and present. The research findings indicate that the CHE has a bureaucratic image, a short-sighted policy, and that it reacts to events more than leading them, as opposed to its declared goal of promoting high standard, innovative, and accessible research and teaching processes to benefit the economy and society. The conclusion generated by the research findings is that implementation of a hybrid model suitable for the twenty first century, which combines liberalization and regulation, should be explored. This model will let institutions of higher education develop independently while reducing government supervision, and will allow the regulatory body to regulate their activity via incentives and restrictions, while identifying market failures that it will define. Such a regulatory body will include an array of academic experts from the field of higher education with proven experience in the fields of academic research and teaching, in order to separate the managing of Israel’s system of higher education from politics and bureaucracy.

scholarly journals Dancing with Covid: Choreographing examinations in pandemic times

2021 ◽  
pp. 147490412110221
Author(s):  
Cristina Alarcón López ◽  
Mathias Decuypère ◽  
Joyeeta Dey ◽  
Radhika Gorur ◽  
Mary Hamilton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Complex Network ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Theoretical Assumption ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Pedagogical Innovation ◽  
Universities And Colleges ◽  
The World ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Made In

In this paper, we explore the improvisations made in examination practices in higher education during the pandemic of 2020. Drawing on STS, we start from the theoretical assumption that examinations constitute an obligatory passage point in universities and colleges: a sacred point which students need to pass if they want to gain recognized qualifications. We base our analysis of higher education examinations on cases from six countries around the world: Australia, Belgium, Chile, India, Sweden and the UK. We use the analytical heuristic of choreography to follow the movements, tensions and resistance of the ‘emergency examinations’ as well as the re-orderings of actors and stages that have inevitably occurred. In our analytical stories we see the interplay between the maintenance of fixed and sacred aspects of examinations and the fluidity of improvisations aimed at meeting threats of spreading Covid-19. These measures have forced the complex network of examinations both to reinforce some conventional actors and to assemble new actors and stages, thus creating radically new choreographies. Although higher education teaching and didactics are being framed as a playground for pedagogical innovation with digital technologies, it is clear from our data that not all educational activities can be so easily replicated.

scholarly journals Information, Pedagogical and Facilitation Technologies in Teaching a Special Philology Class at Non-Specialized Faculties of Higher Education Institutions

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 1613-1620
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Prose Fiction ◽  
Group Memory ◽  
Group Activities ◽  
World Cafe ◽  
The World ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Thinking Process

The article describes several technologies of teaching a special class "Psychology of Folklore and Psychologism in Classical Russian Prose Fiction" at non-philology faculties of higher education institutions. The article presents information pedagogical technologies, reveals insights into the meaning and advisability of using facilitation technologies in organizing and conducting multi-level classes at a higher education institution, and contains methodology guidelines for carrying out project activities. The article also describes in detail the methods of organizing a class activity aimed at studying a writer’s biography that are based on facilitation technologies. The group activities are based on "The World Café" model that makes it possible to process and comprehend a large amount of information, as well as to model or make up a plan of further activities on studying the works of an author in question. "Group memory", one of a facilitator’s main tools, is used to maintain the thinking process in groups.

Social Glocalisation and Education

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Hobelsberger
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Practical Theology ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Local Effects ◽  
Local Identities ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Work Health

This book discusses the local effects of globalisation, especially in the context of social work, health and practical theology, as well as the challenges of higher education in a troubled world. The more globalised the world becomes, the more important local identities are. The global becomes effective in the local sphere. This phenomenon, called ‘glocalisation’ since the 1990s, poses many challenges to people and to the social structures in which they operate.

Educational Entrepreneurs in Tamil Nadu - A Profile

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Siluvai Raja
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Education System ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
The United States ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World

Education has been considered as an indispensable asset of every individual, community and nation today. Indias higher education system is the third largest in the world, after China and the United States (World Bank). Tamil Nadu occupies the first place in terms of possession of higher educational institutions in the private sector in the country with over 46 percent(27) universities, 94 percent(464) professional colleges and 65 percent(383) arts and science colleges(2011). Studies to understand the profile of the entrepreneurs providing higher education either in India or Tamil Nadu were hardly available. This paper attempts to map the demographic profile of the entrepreneurs providing higher education in Arts and Science colleges in Tamil Nadu through an empirical analysis, carried out among 25 entrepreneurs spread across the state. This paper presents a summary of major inferences of the analysis.

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