рrint ISSN: 2617-2682; online ISSN: 2707-3637; DOI:10.26697/ijsa IJSA EDITORIAL How will Blockchain Technology Change Education Future?! Melnyk Yu. B.1,2,3, Pypenko I. S.1,2,4,5 1 Kharkiv Regional Public Organization “Culture of Health” (KRPOCH), Ukraine 2 Scientific Research Institute KRPOCH, Ukraine 3 National Academy of the National Guard of Ukraine, Ukraine 4 Educational Center KRPOCH, Ukraine 5 Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics, Ukraine Received: 14.02.2020; Accepted: 14.03.2020; Published: 30.06.2020 Keywords: blockchain, innovation, education, technology Copyright: © 2020 Melnyk Yu. B., Pypenko I. S. Published by Archives of International Journal of Science Annals DOI and UDC DOI 10.26697/ijsa.2020.1.1; UDC 37.014:[4/9+001.18] Conflict of interests: The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests Source of support: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. It has been conducted on the basis of Scientific Research Institute KRPOCH. Information about Melnyk Yuriy Borysovych (Corresponding Author) – https://orcid.org/0000-0002- the authors: 8527-4638; YBM.office@gmail.com; Doctor of Philosophy in Pedagogy, Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of Psychology and Pedagogy, National Academy of the National Guard of Ukraine; Founder and Chairman of the Board, KRPOCH; Director, Scientific Research Institute KRPOCH; Kharkiv, Ukraine. Pypenko Iryna Sergiivna – https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5083-540X; Doctor of Philosophy in Economics, Associate Professor, Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics; Co-Director, Scientific Research Institute KRPOCH; Director, Educational Center KRPOCH; Kharkiv, Ukraine. The question “how” and “what to learn?” has always - the amount of information that a person has to perceive been urgent. New methodological approaches to is increasing practically every day; education are appearing, pedagogical technologies are - the period of studying at school, universities and being worked out, innovative forms and methods of courses of professional skills improvement is becoming education are being implemented. The modern society longer; being plunged into the information age, has not noticed - not everything being taught at educational institutions that information technologies have started playing a will be proved useful in life and professional activity. more significant role in the educational process. A Under such circumstances the mass education is blockchain technology deserves a special attention becoming less and less effective. nowadays. It appeared ten years ago and started its way The education directed at mastering information and its as an undermining innovative technology that is moving reproductive output is unable to develop skills properly upwards changing the old-fashioned forms. Having a and take into account the interests of those who study. great potential it has already started transforming These banal (as it may seem for the first time) and financial and economic spheres, now it is turn for the known for everyone problems of education are almost sphere of education. impossible to overcome. The aim of the study: to turn the attention of scientific Still the information age itself proposes a way out of this and pedagogical workers to possibilities of using the exclusive circle. blockchain technology in the sphere of education, as Firstly, the paradigm of learning is being changed from well as characterise the peculiarities of its “Education for the whole life” to “Life-long education”. implementation. Secondly, the blockchain technology has appeared For the last century didactics has accumulated a rich (2008). experience, still some drawbacks of the educational Blockchain is a technology of distributed data register, process have become more evident. Among them are the that keeps an orderly chain of blocks which is constantly following: increasing. Each chain has a temporary indicator, a hash 5 International Journal of Science Annals, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2020 from the previous block and transaction data, which can that will provide the personality with a set of be added by other data while the existing data cannot be competencies for successful and happy living. deleted. It looks like a hash-tree. Enciphering So, the life is not static, but its changes have never been (cryptography) allows protecting these data from so swift as nowadays; information technologies have falsification and misrepresentation. never been implemented so fast into various spheres of Let us consider some characteristic features which are a person’s life activity. For example, social distance by peculiar for the blockchain technology and can be the pandemic CoVid-19 has resulted in rapid widespread implemented into the educational sphere that in our of distance learning methods. We are sure that the opinion corresponds to the modern demands and thus nearest future will surprise us more than once, shake our will favour the transition of education to a new, higher, stereotypes, destroy common models and change qualitative level. standards. In the process of education: The blockchain technology gradually but confidently is - digital identifications are used; becoming recognisable in various spheres, and the - the whole education chain of those who study is educational one will not be an exception. systematised (school – university – production); Thus the increase in quality of the educational process - all acts are realised in the consecutive order and agreed through implementation of the modern technologies upon; becomes a strategic task which is worked out by the - the freedom of choice as for the goal, content, forms policy in the educational sphere of the whole world. The and methods of studying is considered; blockchain technology has a huge potential not only for - there is a possibility to choose a teacher/lecturer and the economic sphere where it has started to be used the appropriate time for studying. actively, but for the educational one as well, whose Those who study are: meaning has not been realised by the society yet. - ready to perceive the curriculum; Application of the blockchin technology in the - motivated and active; educational sphere will combine organically the - able to carry out the schedule of hours; methodology of the personality-oriented and student- - capable of putting the obtained knowledge into centred approaches. We have no doubt that that there is practice; a question of time as for implementing the blockchain - successful in studying and life activity. technology in the sphere of education. This is a modern To our mind, the task of a teacher who uses the technology that will help a person’s nature and make the blockchain technology in the educational process is to educational process easy, useful and interesting. create a common system of knowledge, skills and habits Cite this article as: Melnyk, Yu. B., & Pypenko, I. S. (2020). How will Blockchain Technology Change Education Future?! International Journal of Science Annals, 3(1), 5–6. doi:10.26697/ijsa.2020.1.1 The electronic version of this article is complete and can be found online at: http://ijsa.culturehealth.org/en/arhiv This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en). 6