Weekly Progress Report: Uses of Blockchain Technology in Education

This weekly progress report documents the development of a project investigating the use of blockchain technology in higher education. The report covers a period of 11 weeks, detailing the milestones achieved, challenges faced, and solutions implemented. The initial weeks focused on selecting a research topic, conducting an annotated bibliography, and gathering relevant sources. The project then progressed to defining the introduction, methods, and materials, followed by data collection and analysis. The report outlines the methodologies employed, including the selection of appropriate materials and methods, data analysis techniques, and the challenges encountered in terms of team member availability and resource allocation. Furthermore, the report includes the discussion of critiques from the annotated bibliography, and the summarization of key results, along with a conclusion summarizing the major scientific contributions and significance of the results. The report also includes a bibliography of the sources used.

Weekly Progress Report
Full Name
Student ID
Subject Emerging Technology and Innovations
Assignment No Weekly Progress Report
Due Date 16th February, 2019
Lecturer’s Name
Week 2:
NAME:
PROJECT TITLE: Uses of block chain in higher education
WEEK NO: 2 DATE:1stNovember, 2018
PLANNING
MILESTONE: PLANNED: ACTUAL: COMMENT:
Selection of topic
7th November 5th November Numerous topics on
emerging technologies
and innovation were
selected based on the
data available on them,
at last the decided topic
was finalized.
The topic of using block
chain in educational
field has been chosen
as the educational filed
is very much prone to
threats especially after
the digitalization of
various activities in the
field
ISSUES
DESCRIPTION: DATE: ACTION/RESULTS: FINISHED (Y/N)
Selecting topic was tough
because emerging
6th November The topic that had more
impact was selected.
Yes
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technologies and
innovation is a huge field
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Week 3:
NAME:
PROJECT TITLE: Uses of block chain in higher education
WEEK NO: 3 DATE: 8th November
PLANNING
MILESTONE: PLANNED: ACTUAL: COMMENT:
Annotated bibliography 8th November 15th November Various sources were
selected and their
content was thoroughly
accessed, sources that
did not have enough
content or had irrelevant
content were not
selected
ISSUES
DESCRIPTION: DATE: ACTION/RESULTS: FINISHED (Y/N)
It was tough to select
sources because they
had a huge amount of
content and it was
difficult to go through all
of them.
11th November Sources that were
renowned and with
relevant content was
chosen.
Yes
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Week 4:
NAME:
PROJECT TITLE: Uses of block chain in higher education
WEEK NO: 4 DATE: 16th November, 2018
PLANNING
MILESTONE: PLANNED: ACTUAL: COMMENT:
Annotated bibliography 20th November 23th November Few more sources
were found for
annotated bibliography
ISSUES
DESCRIPTION: DATE: ACTION/RESULTS: FINISHED (Y/N)
In some of the sources,
the authors had also
discussed regarding few
topics that were not
related to the basic topic
of the assignment.
17th November Better bibliographies were
selected which had
detailed description on the
topic.
Yes
Week 5:
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NAME:
PROJECT TITLE: Uses of block chain in higher education
WEEK NO: 5 DATE: 23th November
PLANNING
MILESTONE: PLANNED: ACTUAL: COMMENT:
Annotated bibliography 23th November 30th December Few more sources
were found for
annotated bibliography
ISSUES
DESCRIPTION: DATE: ACTION/RESULTS: FINISHED (Y/N)
The annotated
bibliography had some
irrelevant content where
some part of the content
related to the topic.
29th December The supervisor was asked
to help in choosing
bibliographies that had
relevant content.
Yes
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Week 6:
NAME:
PROJECT TITLE: Uses of block chain in higher education
WEEK NO: 6 DATE: 31th December, 2018
PLANNING
MILESTONE: PLANNED: ACTUAL: COMMENT:
Introduction
7th January 5th January Summaries from
annotated bibliography
assignment were
included and they are
organized according to
the topics that they have
discussed.
ISSUES
DESCRIPTION: DATE: ACTION/RESULTS: FINISHED (Y/N)
Introducing the basic
topic and summarizing all
the bibliographies in a
single paragraph was
tough.
4th January The important points were
only mentioned after
consulting with
supervisors.
Yes
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Week 7:
NAME:
PROJECT TITLE: Uses of block chain in higher education
WEEK NO: 7 DATE: 7th January, 2019
PLANNING
MILESTONE: PLANNED: ACTUAL: COMMENT:
Introduction
14th January 10th January Aim of paper had been
mentioned, structure of
paper was mentioned,
and some literature was
included.
ISSUES
DESCRIPTION: DATE: ACTION/RESULTS: FINISHED (Y/N)
Structure of the report
that had been decided
before was changed after
the assignment had
proceeded; hence the
structure had to be
mentioned again.
9th January The new structure was
mentioned first and then
the introduction was done.
Yes
Week 8:
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NAME:
PROJECT TITLE: Uses of block chain in higher education
WEEK NO: 8 DATE: 15th January, 2019
PLANNING
MILESTONE: PLANNED: ACTUAL: COMMENT:
Material and methods
21th January 21th January Methods are
adequately explained
along with the ways by
which research would
be carried out.
ISSUES
DESCRIPTION: DATE: ACTION/RESULTS: FINISHED (Y/N)
Selecting the materials
and methods were tough.
17th January Discussing with the
supervisors, appropriate
methods were chosen.
Yes
Week 9:
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NAME:
PROJECT TITLE: Uses of block chain in higher education
WEEK NO: 9 DATE: 22th January
PLANNING
MILESTONE: PLANNED: ACTUAL: COMMENT:
Material and methods
29th January 28th January Methodology of the
research had been
mentioned.
Data collection is carried
out, data inclusion
criteria are divided and
values are entered
accordingly.
ISSUES
DESCRIPTION: DATE: ACTION/RESULTS: FINISHED (Y/N)
The team members as
well as the resources
were not always
available for doing the
tasks.
26th January The work done by all the
team members had been
divided and it was ensured
that every member carried
out their part of task.
Yes
Week 10:
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NAME:
PROJECT TITLE: Uses of block chain in higher education
WEEK NO: 10 DATE: 23th January, 2019
PLANNING
MILESTONE: PLANNED: ACTUAL: COMMENT:
Material and methods 26th January 26th January Data analysis was
carried out.
Results 27th January 30th January Results that have been
obtained from the
analysis were recorded
ISSUES
DESCRIPTION: DATE: ACTION/RESULTS: FINISHED (Y/N)
The data analysis was
carried out but after few
days, there have been
changes that had to be
made after little bit of
analysis was carried out.
26th January The changes were made
so that the results
obtained are perfect and
do not require further
changes.
Yes
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Week 11:
NAME:
PROJECT TITLE: Uses of block chain in higher education
WEEK NO: 11 DATE: 31st January
PLANNING
MILESTONE: PLANNED: ACTUAL: COMMENT:
Discussion 7th February 6th February Various critiques from
annotated bibliography
was included and then
organized. Overall
results were referred in
this part. How results
relate to the
expectations was
mentioned.
ISSUES
DESCRIPTION: DATE: ACTION/RESULTS: FINISHED (Y/N)
The inclusion of critiques
was tough for the team.
5th February The help of supervisors
was taken in order to
include the critiques.
Yes
Week 12:
NAME:
PROJECT TITLE: Uses of block chain in higher education
WEEK NO: 12 DATE: 8th February
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PLANNING
MILESTONE: PLANNED: ACTUAL: COMMENT:
Abstract 10th February 10th February The major scientific
contributions were
summarized and
importance and
significance of the
results of the article
have been noted down.
Conclusion 15th February 13th February The key conclusions
and results are
mentioned in brief.
ISSUES
DESCRIPTION: DATE: ACTION/RESULTS: FINISHED (Y/N)
Mentioning all the points
regarding results was
tough because some
methods have similar
results.
11th February The methods that have
similar results were
merged and then the
results were mentioned.
Yes
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Bibliography
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Sharples, M., & Domingue, J. (2016, September). The blockchain and kudos: A distributed system for
educational record, reputation and reward. In European Conference on Technology Enhanced
Learning (pp. 490-496). Springer, Cham.
Skiba, D. J. (2017). The potential of Blockchain in education and health care. Nursing education
perspectives, 38(4), 220-221.
Turkanović, M., Hölbl, M., Košič, K., Heričko, M., & Kamišalić, A. (2018). EduCTX: A blockchain-
based higher education credit platform. IEEE Access, 6, 5112-5127.
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