@article{article_681021, title={A Survey on Blockchain Awareness among Students}, journal={Avrupa Bilim ve Teknoloji Dergisi}, pages={424–434}, year={2020}, DOI={10.31590/ejosat.681021}, url={https://izlik.org/JA83YM24YP}, author={Bahtiyar, Şerif and Paksoy, Oğuz and Güldöşüren, Ecem and Pekel, Mustafa}, keywords={Blokzincir,Farkındalık,Kriptografi,Araştırma}, abstract={Modern societies are beginning to become more and more intertwined with technology. At the same time, inter-communal competition has begun to move from traditional war or economic fields to technological fields. This circumstance reveals that societies need more work force to develop technology. There has been a growing interest in blockchain since it is considered as an emerging revolutionary technology for many areas of computing. However, outstanding problems in blockchain research and development must be solved to go beyond the hype that require well-educated researchers and developers. This paper focuses on assessing the blockchain awareness of university students who are among the best candidates to contribute the technology. We presented a new survey to explore the blockchain awareness among university students. We experimentally evaluated the survey with two hundred students by using an online questionnaire. Analyses results show that university students are willing to contribute on blockchain technology and they want to develop new applications with that technology. On the other hand, these results also reveal that there are some obstacles for students to participate in the blockchain research community. One of main obstacles is a lack of sufficient training and education programs related to blockchain technology and its applications. Specifically, existing programs use traditional methods regardless of contemporary technological infrastructure. However, our research reveals that current university students prefer interactive education programs that contain more visual materials and less writing. The results of this survey are expected to be used to create such programs. We particularly expect that the results of our research will become useful for blockchain technology programs designed especially for university level.}, number={18}