The future of continuous learning–Digital badge and microcredential system using blockchain

Abstract

Continuous Learning is seen as the key to remain competitive and effective at work. Very often, this also takes place outside the walls of a classroom. Nowadays Digital Badges and microcredentials are pathways to acknowledge and recognize achievements and specific skills of a learner. In this research, the different techniques used in existing blockchain-based educational systems have been reviewed and in the end, a novel web-based digital badge and microcredentials system which helps the learners to acquire the desired skills is proposed. For the Blockchain, Ethereum has been used and to develop the front end ReactJS has been used. A digital badging and micro-credential system consisting of quizzes and digital badges was built with Ethereum blockchain together with ipfs to store the badge image and firebase for examination, registration, and storing courses. The proposed system proved to be very much beneficial and addressed the inherent limitations of traditional learning content management systems (LCMS).