JoWUA

Abstract

Recently, technology has progressed markedly and is now being incorporated into educational settings to enhance distance learning and engagement among students. Incorporating the Internet of Things (IoT) into education can improve instruction and learning and broaden the context of student learning in history education. Data about learning is highly sensitive and requires protection while transmitting across networks or stored in data centers. The identity and legitimacy of participating students, instructors, and staff must be validated to reduce the risk of assaults in wireless networks. Most existing security and authentication frameworks are centralized, depending on trustworthy third-party cloud servers to enable ongoing safe connection. Many of these methods are resource-intensive, leading to safety and effectiveness challenges when diverse and resource-constrained IoT devices are employed. This study presents a Blockchain (BC) based framework that effectively identifies and authenticates students and their gadgets in a decentralized way, preventing illegal alterations of recorded learning records inside a distributed university network. It enables pupils and educators to seamlessly transition to and affiliate with multiple colleges inside the system using their identity, eliminating the necessity for user re-authentication. The suggested design was evaluated for efficiency using a simulation tool. Simulation findings indicate that the proposed design can substantially enhance the throughput of training transactions by 41%, decrease communication costs and response period by 27%, enhance authentication effectiveness by 28%, and lower IoT power consumption by 36% compared to centralized authentication systems. The security assessment demonstrates the efficacy of the suggested architecture in mitigating diverse assaults and fulfilling the security needs of educational data within the university system in history education.