Sony and IBM Join Forces to Put Student Achievement on the Blockchain

Sony Corporation, in partnership with IBM, has developed a new  educational platform that uses blocking technology to protect  educational data and ease of sharing.

According to the Bitcoin Magazine, the contract was signed between  Sony Global Education, a subsidiary of Sony and IBM, and is expected to  be released next year.

School administrators, universities, and educational institutions can  use this block-based learning platform to protect students' data and  share them more confidently and provide relevant parties.

This platform, based on IBM Blockchain, is capable of brightening up  the relationships between students and training centers and making the  process of tracking the progress of individuals more easily possible.

IBM, with reference to the difficulty of examining student records,  cited several reasons for this challenge, including "Online courses and  attending overseas universities."

Pointing out that such non-traditional methods may mislead the  personnel of the training centers, the technology giant says that the  solution to the use of blockade technology is.

"Blocchin  technology has the potential to expand in various industries," Masaaki  Isozu, head of Sony Global Education, said in a statement, "Blockbuster  technology is no exception. Educational data is stored securely in BlockChin and is shared among authorized users.

He also expressed his satisfaction with working with IBM, saying the platform could make real changes in the field of education.

The platform is powered by the Hyperledger Fabric 1.0 framework hosted by the Linux Foundation.

Sourse : bitcoinmagazine