MIC shares high-quality education, and “blockchain” becomes the pathway for education
German philosopher Jaspers wrote in his book What is Education: “The essence of education means that one tree shakes another tree, one cloud pushes another cloud, and one soul awakens another soul.” Education, as an important part of the history of human development, has always profoundly affected human life.
In the early days of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the level of education in the country was low, and over 80% of the population was illiterate. In 1978, primary education was basically universal, and the enrollment rate of school-age children reached 95.5%. In 1982, the illiteracy rate dropped to 22.8%. Since the reform, the country’s education has entered a period of all-round development, and the education level of the people has improved rapidly. In 2018, the consolidation rate of nine-year compulsory education reached 94.2%, and 28.31 million students were enrolled in regular undergraduate and junior colleges, a 32-fold increase over 1978. With the popularization of education, some problems in the education process have gradually emerged. Although the penetration rate of education has increased significantly, high-quality education is still a “privilege” enjoyed by a small number of people. How to make high-quality educational resources cover the world has become a lasting problem in the development of the education industry.
Education needs to be upgraded and reformed. In the Internet era, the breakthrough for reforms must rely on online high-tech. MIC online education platform, relying on the novel model of “blockchain + online education”, has a good answer for education reform.
Quality education through resource sharing
MIC is an education platform based on blockchain and distributed data storage on IPFS is used in the structure of the blockchain. Books published by educational publishing institutions, teachers’ resources and research results, even ordinary teaching plans and courseware can be protected by intellectual property rights by using the technical features of blockchain such as tamper-resistance and traceability. Even in the event of intellectual property disputes, since each piece of data has an independent time stamp verification, investigation and evidence collection is easy, ensuring that the publisher’s rights are not infringed. At the same time, because MIC has the characteristics of transparency real-time receipts using smart contracts, when users purchase teaching aids, courseware, lecture notes, test questions, educational videos and other resources using MIC, the network’s native token, the corresponding income will be immediately distributed to the account of the content creator. This helps to protect the interests of content creators and shortens the entire education industry chain. It can also encourage content creators to produce better content. As a result, teachers can use rich educational resources to carry out related teaching work and can also publish their own original works to gain a larger following and earn more income.
Education Evaluation System
The MIC platform can make the evaluation system of teachers or students fair and transparent. Teachers can publish their own teaching needs on the MIC online education network, and students can publish their own learning needs. As the blockchain system data cannot be tampered with, the teacher’s personal information or the students’ evaluation of the teacher can remain objective and fair (that is, the information provided by the teacher is absolutely true, and the lecture records and evaluations cannot be obtained). In addition, through smart contracts, MIC tokens are used to reward specific user behaviors in the MIC system, such as speaking, commenting, recommending, sharing, etc., which further stimulates user activity in the system.
“Education in the digital age needs reform. Today’s education was designed by people in the industrial age two or three hundred years ago. It serves assembly line production, and future education will definitely change.” This is Mr. Jack Ma’s view on education reform.
MIC also firmly believes that online education must be the development direction of future education, and blockchain technology will serve as the underlying technical framework of online education, laying a solid foundation for the development of online education. Ten years of trees and 100 years of people, MIC online education platform will grow together with all teachers and students and set an example for the development of global education.
