Moodle Moot 2019 Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology Friday 1 March 2019

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Education on the Blockchain
Vice President of NPO CCC-TIES
Director of Musashi Academy
Seishi Ono
Moodle Moot 2019
Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology
Friday 1 March 2019

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1. What is a blockchain?
2. What is the point of the blockchain?
3. What is our study for education on the blockchain?
Main Topics

3. Before that …
Information for TEIS Symposium at 9 March

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TIES Symposium
Date: Sat 9 March 2019.
Start at 1:30p.m.
Place: 2F Conference Room, Hitotsubashi Hall
2-1-2 Hitotsubashi Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo,

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TIES Synposium Speaker
Speaker
• Masaaki Isozu@SGE
• Tsuneo Yamada@OUJ
• Masato Tokuhiro@METI
• Syn Tutiya@NIAD
• Masumi Hori@CCC-TIES

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Access

7. Blockchain

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Ledger
Blockchain Technology
Private key
↓
Public Key
↓
Address
Hash previous
Nonce
Hash previous
Nonce
User Account
1BitQEtcoxAnViwUYX9k6･･･
3. Consensus protocols
1. Cryptology
2. P2PNetwork
4. Distributed ledger
Tamper-proof
Anonymity Authenticity
Durability
Immutability
Transaction
Date : 2017-03-01
From : 1BitQtCo･･･
To : 1BitAAbk･･･
Amount : 2500 BTC

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Distributed ledger
nsactions
an electronic coin as a chain of digital signatures. Each owner transfers the c
itally signing a hash of the previous transaction and the public key of the ne
these to the end of the coin. A payee can verify the signatures to verify the
Transaction
Owner 1's
Public Key
Owner 0's
Signature
Hash
Transaction
Owner 2's
Public Key
Owner 1's
Signature
Hash
Verify
Transaction
Owner 3's
Public Key
Owner 2's
Signature
Hash
Verify
Owner 2's
Private Key
Owner 1's
Private Key
Sign
Sign
Owner 3's
Private Key
Satoshi Nakamoto “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-
Peer Electronic Cash System “ October,
2008

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Decentralized network

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• First propose by Nick Szabo
• Ethereum : a nearly Turing-complete language
on the blockchain
• Enabling wide application of blockchain
Smart contract

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Innovation in the Blockchain
Truth
Durability
Tamper proof
Finality
Reliable accounting management
Large Institute P2PNetwork
DecentralizedCentralized
Disruptive Innovation
Anonymity

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Disruptive Innovation
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Sustaining innovation
• Rules of the game
• Market leaders
Disruptive innovation
• Game changers
 Low-end customers
with a “good enough” product.
→Low-end markets
 Disrupters create a market
where none existed before
→New market
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository

14. Blockchain in the
education field

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Paradigm shift of Education
Traditional education Education on blockchain
study
learn
Accreditation by an institute Accreditation by all particiants
Trust which?
Brick & mortar
Knowledge
Dynamic & updated knowledge

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Learning is earning (SXSW 2016)
IFTF,2016, Learning is earning 2026, http://www.learningisearning2026.org
Jane McGonigal, 2016, How to Think (and Learn) Like a Futurist,
SXSWedu Keynote, https://youtu.be/CKvMmtclUBA
Jane McGonigal and Institutional for the Future (IFTF)
LEARNING IS EARNING
in the national learning
economy

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Field of Education Related
ICO
COINJINJA, https://www.coinjinja.com
2017 2018
Initial Coin Offering(ICO)
2017-2018
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Progress
Progress of Blockchain’s
Application
Issuance of transcript
Value of Issuance
Marketplace for education
Value of education
Service in
MIT Blockcerts (US)
SONY(JP)
LiveEdu(UK)
Tutellus (ES)
BitDegree ( LT)
α・β
version
SmartCert (CA)
BitSchool(UK)
ODEM (CH)
NTOK (US)
White
paper
Skillchain (CH)
DISCIPLINA(EE) ALGORBLOCK (US)
Open University (UK) Seratio (UK)
OpenSourceUniversity(UK)
Concept Open badges(US) Learning is earning (US)
Reward for learner
Value of learning

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BitDegree
BitDegree, 2017, Bitdegree white paper version2,1
Learning result
SMART-INSENTIVE
SMART CONTRACT
Sponsor StudentBitDegree Platform
Grant
Accreditation institute
Market of learningEmployee Learner
Grant
Reward
Job recruitment
Learning
Challenge: Accreditation institute can evaluate only traditional learning.

20. Moodle and
blockchain

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• Verification object subclass of Open Badges
• Hosted verification
• Signed verification
• The future subclass of Open Badges
• Blockchain-based procedures
Open Badges &
Blockchain

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Moodle plugin
Accredible
Certificates and
Badges

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• The future plan to install Moodle and
Open Badges in blockchain such as
Hyperledger
• Big challenge for quality
assurance of online education
• Installing digital badges in Moodle
on blockchain
Our approach

24. School, Great wall

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MOOC
Only ten universities left in the world in 50
years
Sebastian Thrun
Figure : CHEA 2013 Summer Workshop

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Teachers are worst obstacles against educational
innovation
Peter Drucker
Challenge against school

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 Criticism to standardized educational system
 Independence learning
 Learning Web
Illich: Deschooling society

28. Disruptive
schooling
systems

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Scientia donum dei est, unde vendi
non potest
Knowledge is a gift of God and should not be sold
Before Gutenberg

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Manuscripts to Printed books
（1450 A.C）
 Gain
 Selling knowledge
 Immobilizing knowledge
 Intellectual property right
 Lost
 Fusing his thoughts to a manuscript
 Fluidization knowledge
Gutenberg Age

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Aggregation of knowledge
 Virtual manuscript
 Add knowledge
 The power of collective wisdom
 Intellectual property management
 Fluidization while immobilizing knowledge
Post Gutenberg

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11th Century
 Vagrant students
 University of Bologna
 Student’s union
12th Century
 Pantheon-Sorbonne University
 Teacher’s union
 Traditional business model
The origin of University

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• Success of university
• Immobilizing knowledge
13th Century
Thomas Aquinas

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Gain
 Efficient informed communication
 Communicating stable knowledge
 The business model as school
Lost
 Tailored learning
 Leading-edge knowledge
Schooling systems

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16th Century
Fall of school
Everything goes against the
progress of knowledge in
organizational practices and
institutions such as school,
academy and college
Francis Bacon（ 1561-1626 ）
フリー百科事典『ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/フランシス・ベーコン_(哲学者)
Berger, Peter L (1966). The Social
Construction of Reality: a Treatise in the
Sociology of Knowledge. Garden City, New
York: Anchor.

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Academic in nation-state
1. The idea of Humboldt
 Good researchers are good educators
2. Academic freedom’s guarantee
 Free from nation’s intervention
 Separate from purpose of economic
18th Century
Revival of the university

37. Learning
economy

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Creating new markets
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New market
Time
Improve knowledge
Time
Virtual currency
Sustainable innovation
Disruptive innovation
Traditional school
Learning economy

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Transformation of Learning
and Limits of Online
Education
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•Increase knowledge
•Interdisciplinary fields of study
•Acceleration of obsolescence
Systemized knowledge
provided in schools
What to learn?
Students
Motivated people
Who learns?
Limits of online education
 Cost
 Function
 Contents
 Teacher
• Youths escaping from learning
• Economic and educational gaps
• Seniors reducing ability

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Proposal of Learning
Economy
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Change into value
Trade
Learning outcomes
= Knowledge generated by learners
=K
K
Change knowledge into value

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Trading with market principles
IP (Intellectual property) management
of learning outcomes
Commercialization of learning
outcomes
Features of Learning
Economy

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Education and Learning Economy
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Conventional Education
• Teacher receives compensation
• Teacher provides knowledge
• The value of the knowledge is
obscure
CompensationTeaching
Value
Learning Economy
Value
CompensationLearning
• Learners receive compensation
• Learners create knowledge by
themselves
• Indexation of the value of
knowledge

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Businesses
Factor
Market
Goods
& Services
Market
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General Economic Flow
of the Market
An individual

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Bob
Factor Market
Goods & Services Market
Flow of Knowledge with
the Market
Economy
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Alice
IP management
IP management
Blockchain
Pictures, images, blogs
Manuals
Posts experiences
on the internet
Farming experience
Farmer
Wants to get
into farming
Process/Assembly
of materials

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Posting on the factor market
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Contents recorded to the blockchain
@clip

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Articles put for the factor market
The list of articles
The factor market
Virtual currency
Alice’s article

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The manual put up for the goods & services market

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Advent of intellectualsociety (Drucker, 1969)
From industrialized society to knowledge society
The learning economy approach (Lundvall et al., 1994)
From knowledge accumulationto knowledge updating
Deschooling Society (Illich, 1971)
The knowledge that school cannot teach
Social capital (Field, 2005)
Put no contrast between formal and informal learning
Is this really education?
Education is responding to these topics

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Schooling has no future!
Add successively as many mail coaches as you
please, you will never get a railway thereby.
Joseph Schumpeter

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TIES Symposium 9 March 2019
3月9日13時30分〜
一橋講堂2階 中会議室3,4
東京都千代田区一ツ橋 2-1-2 学術総合センター内