Int. J. Innovation in Education, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2021 1 Copyright © 2021 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Block chain technology and its impact on education sector Shankar Iyer* S.P. Jain School of Global Management, Dubai Campus Block 5, Dubai International Academic City, P.O. Box 502345, Dubai, UAE Email: Shankar.ds19dba002@spjain.org *Corresponding author A. Seetharaman S.P. Jain School of Global Management, 10 Hyderabad Road, 119579, Singapore Email: seetha.raman@spjain.org K. Maddulety S.P. Jain School of Global Management, 1st Floor, Kohinoor City Mall, Premier Rd., Kurla, 400070, Mumbai Email: k.maddulety@spjain.org Abstract: In the current COVID situation education industry has been faced with “disruption, digitisation and educational transformation”. Block Chain technology (BCT) can change the education domain drastically and can enhance its working. In addition to higher efficiency, the key reasons for using BCT include improving the education system, improving learner experience, improving analytics, launching innovative services and enhancing stakeholder experience. However, organisations struggle with the implementation of BCT initiatives. There is a lack of credible literature written on the impact of BCT in education. This study aims to identify the variables that drive educational transformation using BCT and to study the impact of BCT in the education industry, as confirmed by research studies conducted by European Universities (Grech et al., 2017). The results of the study show that strategy, learner needs, technology, regulation, business processes, skills and competencies affect the BCT implementation in the education domain (Ali Alammary et al., 2019). Keywords: BCT; block chain technology; application of block chain; smart government initiative; BCT success in education; BCT features; educational BCT benefits and challenges; BCT impact in education framework. Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Iyer, S., Seetharaman, A. and Maddulety, K. (2021) ‘Block chain technology and its impact on education sector’, Int. J. Innovation in Education, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp.1–16. Biographical notes: Shankar Iyer is pursuing Doctoral Program at S.P. Jain Global School of Management, Dubai Based Campus. He is