TY - GEN
T1 - A Blockchain-Based Collaboration Framework for Teaching Material Creation
AU - Chou, Huichen
AU - Lin, Donghui
AU - Nakaguchi, Takao
AU - Ishida, Toru
N1 - Funding Information:
ScienceRoot [16] proposed a blockchain-enabled scientific ecosystem in 2017. It focuses on the research process and provide a science research marketplace with tokenization. Its “Science Token” supports grant funding, publishing and scientific collaboration. Orvium[8] was introduced in 2018; it is open source and acts as a decentralized platform to support blockchain-based collaboration for science publications. The system supports researchers and institutions in sharing their research with open access journals. The system provides a public and transparent trace of all activities on a research paper from first submission, revisions, peer reviews, copyright and user license changes. Paper files are stored in digital object identifier (doi) system with proof stamp to create a hash of the work.
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© 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Making use of existing resources to create teaching material can save effort and yield better quality. Although there are some resources that can be used freely for educational purposes, most come with significant IP protections. A technology is needed that can allow the usage of copyright restricted resources for collaboration in teaching material generation. We propose a system that provides a full record of multiple authorships and contribution shares when resources are used and such a record supports royalty sharing; its system framework is detailed in this paper. We also exploit the advantage of blockchain technology to bind participants when sharing resources and acknowledge other teachers when their teaching materials are used. In addition, the blockchain-based record can provide distributed management with security, transparency and immutability. Thus, teachers who create teaching materials have sufficient evidence to claim authorship. The smart contract on blockchain has two core functions: registering original material to allow sharing as well as recording multiple authorships of the materials used with contribution distribution. With blockchain as its core, it can be extended with addon functions, such as access management, external file storage and external version control system to support complicate editing activities. We use Remix-Ethereum IDE to implement a prototype. Our contributions are two-fold. First, we propose a blockchain-based framework to support the use of copyrighted resources when creating teaching materials. Second, we demonstrate its feasibility in a prototype implementation.
AB - Making use of existing resources to create teaching material can save effort and yield better quality. Although there are some resources that can be used freely for educational purposes, most come with significant IP protections. A technology is needed that can allow the usage of copyright restricted resources for collaboration in teaching material generation. We propose a system that provides a full record of multiple authorships and contribution shares when resources are used and such a record supports royalty sharing; its system framework is detailed in this paper. We also exploit the advantage of blockchain technology to bind participants when sharing resources and acknowledge other teachers when their teaching materials are used. In addition, the blockchain-based record can provide distributed management with security, transparency and immutability. Thus, teachers who create teaching materials have sufficient evidence to claim authorship. The smart contract on blockchain has two core functions: registering original material to allow sharing as well as recording multiple authorships of the materials used with contribution distribution. With blockchain as its core, it can be extended with addon functions, such as access management, external file storage and external version control system to support complicate editing activities. We use Remix-Ethereum IDE to implement a prototype. Our contributions are two-fold. First, we propose a blockchain-based framework to support the use of copyrighted resources when creating teaching materials. Second, we demonstrate its feasibility in a prototype implementation.
KW - Blockchain
KW - Educational resources
KW - Open collaboration
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-77889-7_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-77889-7_1
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85112142452
SN - 9783030778880
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 3
EP - 14
BT - Learning and Collaboration Technologies
A2 - Zaphiris, Panayiotis
A2 - Ioannou, Andri
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 8th International Conference on Learning and Collaboration Technologies, LCT 2021, held as Part of the 23rd International Conference, HCI International 2021
Y2 - 24 July 2021 through 29 July 2021
ER -