Assessing Value Co-Creation in Blockchain Enabled Learning Certificates: A Knowledge Management Perspective

Nathalya Guruge, Jyri Vilko

2025

Abstract

Blockchain enabled learning certificates promise immutable, transparent proof of skills and achievements, yet their potential for sustained value co - creation remains underexplored. Grounded in Nonaka and Takeuchi’s SECI model, Service-Dominant Logic, and the Co-Creation Triad, this position paper advances an integrative analytical model to evaluate how blockchain credentials instantiate knowledge‐conversion processes, operant resource integration, and stakeholder engagement structures. A dual‐stream methodology first maps construct from 50 prior studies to these lenses - revealing a research landscape heavily focused on technical architectures but largely neglectful of on-chain Socialization, Internalization, and ongoing co-creation incentives. We then apply our model to four illustrative platforms (LearnCoin, Blockcerts, Badgr, and the Learning Economy Foundation), systematically coding each system’s support for explicit knowledge externalization/combination, smart-contract-driven workflows, and dialogic customization. Our cross-case analysis confirms universal strengths in artifact codification and protocol automation but identifies persistent gaps in reflective learning cycles and sustained co-creation mechanisms. We conclude by calling for next‐ generation credential designs that embed on-chain communities of practice, adaptive operant resources, and multi-phase token economies, thereby charting a research and design roadmap for transforming blockchain certificates into living ecosystems of shared learning value.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Guruge N. and Vilko J. (2025). Assessing Value Co-Creation in Blockchain Enabled Learning Certificates: A Knowledge Management Perspective. In Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 2: KMIS; ISBN 978-989-758-769-6, SciTePress, pages 267-277. DOI: 10.5220/0013743000004000

in Bibtex Style

@conference{kmis25,
author={Nathalya Guruge and Jyri Vilko},
title={Assessing Value Co-Creation in Blockchain Enabled Learning Certificates: A Knowledge Management Perspective},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 2: KMIS},
year={2025},
pages={267-277},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013743000004000},
isbn={978-989-758-769-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 2: KMIS
TI - Assessing Value Co-Creation in Blockchain Enabled Learning Certificates: A Knowledge Management Perspective
SN - 978-989-758-769-6
AU - Guruge N.
AU - Vilko J.
PY - 2025
SP - 267
EP - 277
DO - 10.5220/0013743000004000
PB - SciTePress