{"id":259,"date":"2018-10-29T17:44:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T08:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cties.jp\/en\/2018\/10\/29\/n20181029\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T18:51:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:51:28","slug":"n20181029","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cties.jp\/en\/2018\/10\/29\/n20181029\/","title":{"rendered":"Study on Blockchain Receives AAOU2018 Best Paper Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"pst_item\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11868\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cties.jp\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AAOU2018-01.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u3000TIES received the Best Paper Award Silver Medal at the international conference, <a href=\"https:\/\/aaou2018.hou.edu.vn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> The 32nd Annual Conference of the Asian Association of Open Universities<\/a>\uff08AAOU2018\uff09held at Hanoi, Vietnam on October 22-27.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cties.jp\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aaou2018-3.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11868\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cties.jp\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aaou2018-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"50%\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u3000We were awarded for the research on the application of blockchain to education. The paper titled &#8220;Crowdsourced Learning Based on Learning Economy&#8221; with the co-authors: Masumi Hori (NPO CCC-TIES), Seishi Ono (NPO CCC-TIES), Toshihiro Kita (Kumamoto University), Hiroki Miyahara (Yamanashi University), Shu Sakashita (Acutus Software Inc.), Kensuke Miyashita (Kyoto Women&#8217;s University), Kazutsuna Yamaji (National Institute of Informatics), Tsuneo Yamada (The Open University of Japan) was awarded.<\/p>\n<p>Since one of the topics the conference focused on was &#8220;New Technologies in Open Education,&#8221; the keyword &#8220;blockchain&#8221; appeared in keynote lectures and many parallel sessions, making us acknowledge that the Asian countries have a great interest in the application of the blockchain in education. Because our research was able to propose specific methods and implementation examples of the blockchain, it gave a high impact to the audience thus leading us to receive the award.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11868 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cties.jp\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aaou2018-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"50%\" height=\"auto\" \/><br \/>\n(From the left: Prof. Yamada, Hori, and Dr. Kita attended the conference held in Hanoi)<\/p>\n<p>This was<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cties.jp\/news\/news_14\/n20141030\/\"> the second time<\/a> that NPO CCC-TIES received the Best Paper Award Silver Medal since 2014.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TIES received the Best Paper Award Silver Medal at The 32nd Annual Conference of the Asian Association of Open Universities (AAOU2018) held at Hanoi, Vietnam on October 22-27, 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cties.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cties.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cties.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cties.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cties.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/www.cties.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cties.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cties.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cties.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}