ARKeducation: a blockchain for the certification of diplomas

University of Lille and emlyon business school launched, with the help of startups BCdiploma and ARK, blockchain ARKeducation

Driven by the values ​​of sustainable development, these institutions deployed the first instance of a open source blockchain with low energy consumption, developed by ARK.io. Its first application will be certification of diplomas, academic certificates and Open Badges, via the platform BCdiploma.com, which for the occasion deployed its "dapp" (distributed application) on this new blockchain.

Three nodes, in addition to the initial nodes managed by ARK, ensure consensus at the University of Lille, at BCdiploma and at ARK. The initial consensus algorithm chosen for ARKeducation is also a DPoS but where users can only vote for 1 delegate and where the 5 delegates with the most votes ensure consensus (see the arguments by François-Xavier Thoorens, co-founder of ARK, on ​​this choice of the single vote), ”specifies Pierre Boulet, vice-president digital transformation of the University of Lille, in this article.

The blockchain disrupts the economy and industry. This technology inspires, internationally, new perspectives in education. Allow all citizens to find online and share their diplomas, its certificates of continuing education, its learning outcomes and the validation of its skills; all in a secure manner, in the form of digital certificates.

University of Lille has already started the configuration of its blockchain certificates and will soon publish in bilingual version the Certificates of skills in higher education language (CLES) of the 2019 class. It is vital for us to associate the tuition services and students implementing this new innovative technology, ”said Pierre Boulet, vice president of digital transformation at the University of Lille.

The project ARKeducation is the result of monitoring work by Blockchain Education France (Digital working group -Gtnum n ° 8- of the Ministry of National Education, led by Perrine de Coëtlogon and Pierre Boulet, vice-president digital transformation of the University of Lille).

The group Blockchain Education France is delighted to launch an initiative of this magnitude, which enables skills to be developed in a university environment on a blockchain technology open but sustainable.

Many institutions expressed their interest by their presence at the launch day ofARKeducation February 6, 2020.

ARKeducation several other members of the European Blockchain Partnership are already interested. In addition, this experience is invaluable in the context of the emergence of international standards on digital certificates, with the recent release of the White Paper of the Digital Credential Consortium initiated by the MIT Media Lab, ”said Perrine de Coëtlogon.

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