Blockchain Degree: All you need to know - What is blockchain-based higher education degree? How is it different from a regular digital degree?
Blockchain-based Digital Degrees, IIT-Kanpur & NIT-Rourkela: Why are premier technical education institutions like IIT-Kanpur and NIT-Rourkela adopting blockchain technology to award graduation degrees to students?
On Saturday, the National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Rourkela became the second centrally-run higher education institution in the country (after IIT-Kanpur) to award blockchain-based digital degrees to all its graduates.
Over 1,500 students received their degrees in this format in addition to the traditional hard copy of the certificate.
How is the blockchain-based degree different from a regular digital degree certificate that a student can receive by email and share with employers and higher education institutions electronically? We explain:
Q. First, what is blockchain technology?
“Blockchain is like a ledger which stores information digitally, in a very secure way. The data is connected as blocks and exist in a distributed manner (across a network of computer systems)”, says Prof. Manish Okade, Head of the Computer & Informatics Centre (CIC) at NIT-Rourkela. He explains that since the data is not stored in one place, nobody can tamper or hack the system.
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