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With the rapid development of information technology, various online education platforms support the sharing of digital educational resources. Because digital educational resources are simple to duplicate and disseminate quickly, there exists copyright infringement, which threatens the interests of copyright owners. In addition, the existing digital education resource copyright protection solutions have the problems of privacy disclosure of copyright owners, lack of multidimensional copyright evidence, lack of credible infringement tracking method, resulting in the lack of high-quality resources, lack of creative enthusiasm, and increasing infringement phenomenon. To solve the above problems, we propose a blockchain-based digital education resource copyright protection mechanism BC-DERCP. Firstly, we propose a digital educational resources secure storage method, which can store encrypted user privacy information and multi-dimensional resource copyright information in the blockchain, ensuring the originality of resources, and protecting the privacy and digital copyright of copyright holders. Secondly, we propose a digital educational resources collaborative verification method, which uses consortium Blockchain nodes to coordinate the supervision of copyright infringement and provide strong evidence for rights protection. Finally, a novel blockchain-based digital education resource copyright protection platform is realized, and we conduct multi-dimensional experiments on the performance of the system and use both quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate learners’ acceptance of the system. The experimental results show that the system is better than the existing digital education resource copyright protection system. The participants hold that the proposed system has good performance, which can ensure copyright security and improve the initiative of learners to create resources.
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This study was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 62377020) named “Research on the Intelligent Evaluation Method of Teacher Information Technology Application Ability based on Classroom Teaching Behavior Characteristics” and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities named “Research on Intelligent Evaluation Technology and Application of Teachers' Teaching Ability based on Multimodal Data” (CCNU22JC011).
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The system design and development were a collaborative effort of all authors. The task of experimental data collection and analysis were performed by Gang Zhao, Hui He, Bingbing Di, and Qingqing Guo. Hui He wrote the first draft of the manuscript, and all authors participated in revising it.
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Appendix
Questions | ||||||
1 | What’s your gender? | |||||
2 | What’s your age? | |||||
3 | What’s your major? | |||||
Perceived risk | ||||||
Q1 | I am worried that traditional digital education resource copyright management will reveal privacy. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Q2 | I am worried that the use of the traditional copyright management system will bring copyright security problems. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Q3 | I think the use of the traditional digital education resource copyright management needs to take risks. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Perceived usefulness | ||||||
Q1 | I think using this system can improve my creative enthusiasm. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Q2 | I think this system can effectively protect copyright of digital educational resources. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Q3 | I think this system is very useful in the copyright protection of digital educational resources. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Q4 | I think this system will not reveal privacy. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Perceived ease of use | ||||||
Q1 | I think the interface design of this system is friendly and easy to understand. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Q2 | I think the interoperation of this system is easy to use. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Q3 | I can easily and quickly manage the copyright of digital educational resources through this system. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Q4 | I don’t think it takes much effort to use this system. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Q5 | I think this system is easy to use. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Behavioral intention | ||||||
Q1 | I would like to recommend this system to others | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Q2 | I will often use the blockchain-based digital educational resource copyright protection system in the future | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Q3 | If I need to do copyright management, I am happy to use this system | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Q4 | I prefer the copyright management system based on blockchain technology adopted in this system | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
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Zhao, G., He, H., Di, B. et al. BC-DERCP: Blockchain-based copyright protection mechanism for digital educational resources. Educ Inf Technol (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-024-12612-3
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