Securing the Resource Sharing in Meta Universities Through Blockchain Technology

Technology has enabled the education system to foster global connections, initiated online dialogues, virtual schools, and knowledge exchange. Availability of digitalized student’s records, and education technology has generated a unique concept of meta-university. Meta university is a platform created by compiling the virtual academic resources and empowering students to customize their learning path with assistance from a system of educators and academic mediators, innovators have a significant opportunity to provide students with an unparalleled educational experience. In India, this concept has been implemented where few universities have agreed to be the part of Meta-university where students can share the resources between different universities and pursue the courses without going through the process of student exchange. However, implementation of such a concept needs a robust and highly secure digitalized environment that is based on a decentralized system for the verification and authentication of records. Blockchain Technology provides a perfect solution by forming a distributed record to prevent the control of third parties by decentralizing the data and related transactions. This paper discussed the overview of edtech in India, role of Meta universities in empowering the education and proposes a smart contract-based solution to secure the resource sharing in Meta universities.