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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

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; [email protected]; 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

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