QualiChain

Decentralised Qualifications' Verification and Management for Learner Empowerment, Education Reengineering and Public Sector Transformation

QualiChain targets the creation, piloting and evaluation of a decentralised platform for storing, sharing and verifying education and employment qualifications and focuses on the assessment of the potential of blockchain technology, algorithmic techniques and computational intelligence for disrupting the domain of public education, as well as its interfaces with private education, the labour market, public sector administrative procedures and the wider socio-economic developments.

The project focuses more specifically on the assessment of the implications (technical, political, socio-economic, legal and cultural) as well as the impact - in terms of benefits and risks - of the prescribed solution's utilisation, whose disruptive potential lies both in the exploitation of the innovative features of the aforementioned individual technologies, as well as in their unique combination in a new territory for the provision of a set of baseline services (Awards / Qualifications Archiving; Awards / Qualifications Verification; Qualifications Portfolio Management) and a number of value-adding services (Career Counselling and Intelligent Profiling and Competency Management including Recruitment; Competencies Evaluation and Development; Consulting and Decision Support).

The proposed solution will be piloted through four representative scenarios: (i) lifelong learning; (ii) smart curriculum design; (iii) staffing the public sector; (iv) providing HR consultancy and competency management services.

Alexander Mikroyannidis

Alexander Mikroyannidis

Alexander Mikroyannidis

Alexander Mikroyannidis

Alexander Mikroyannidis

Mikroyannidis, A., Third, A. and Domingue, J. (2024) Blockchain-based decentralised micro-accreditation for lifelong learning, Interactive Learning Environments, 33, 3, pp. 2201-2215

Bozkurt, A., Gjelsvik, T., Adam, T., Asino, T., Atenas, J., Bali, M., Blomgren, C., Bond, M., Bonk, C., Brown, M., Burgos, D., Conrad, D., Costello, E., Cronin, C., Czerniewicz, L., Deepwell, M., Deimann, M., DeWaard, H., Dousay, T., Ebner, M., Farrow, R., Gil-Jaurena, I., Havemann, L., Inamorato, A., Irvine, V., Karunanayaka, S., Kerres, M., Lambert, S., Lee, K., Makoe, M., Marín, V., Mikroyannidis, A., Mishra, S., Naidu, S., Nascimbeni, F., Nichols, M., Olcott, D., Ossiannilsson, E., Otto, D., Rodriguez, B., Paskevicius, M., Roberts, V., Saleem, T., Schuwer, R., Sharma, R., Stewart, B., Stracke, C., Tait, A., Tlili, A., Ubachs, G., Weidlich, J., Weller, M., Xiao, J. and Zawacki-Richter, O. (2023) Openness in Education as a Praxis: From Individual Testimonials to Collective Voices, Open Praxis, 15, 2, pp. 76-112

Mikroyannidis, A. (2022) The Role of Web 3.0 and Blockchain in the Future of Education, Proceedings of 7th Panhellenic Scientific Conference "Integration and Use of ICT in the Educational Process", University of Patras, Greece

Mikroyannidis, A. (2022) Work-in-Progress: Piloting Smart Blockchain Badges for Lifelong Learning, 2021 International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL2021), Dresden, Germany

Mikroyannidis, A. (2021) Decentralising Education Using Blockchain Technology, Innovate Learning Summit 2021, Online