Paper—Process Design of Cooperative Education Management System by Cloud-based Blockchain… Process Design of Cooperative Education Management System by Cloud-based Blockchain E-portfolio https://doi.org/10.3991/ijoe.v15i08.10374 Sukosol Wanotayapitak ( * ) , Kobkiat Saraubon, Prachyanun Nilsook King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand sukosol@yahoo.com Abstract—The digital competence is necessary for 21st century living, but from several countries survey, a large number of people still have insufficient digital competence. Moreover, from literature study found three problems of to- day cooperative education information system, (1) lack of information sharing among university community, (2) lack of connect information to public, and (3) lack of enhancing 21st century learning skill. This paper proposes a process de- sign of cooperative education management system by using the integration of cooperative education, E-Portfolio, digital competence framework 2.0, cloud computing technology, and blockchain technology. These processes make result of digital competence assessment credible and share to open digital labor mar- ket finally. Keywords—Cooperative education, E-Portfolio, Blockchain technology, Cloud computing technology, Digital competence, Open digital labor market 1 Introduction The lack of necessary skills for working is the main cause of unemployment prob- lem. In the 21st century, social and economic conditions are transformed into digital that affect to necessity for develop additional skill more than previous generations that called 21st century learning skill [1]. However, at present, most of the world's popula- tion still has not enough digital skills to live in a digital society. As seen in the 2015 report from Europe [2], although it is a region with a high standard of education, near- ly 44.5% of the population or nearly half between the ages of 16 and 74, have inade- quate digital skills for social and economic well-being. From the beginning of the 20th century, the concept of managing education curric- ula was developed in response to a labor market called cooperative education. It is found that cooperative education can improve the graduation process to enter the la- bor market effectively and meet the needs of the workforce of entrepreneurs. There- fore, when entering the digital era in 21st century, there is a new issue that apart from focusing on professional competencies, “how can cooperative education promote digi- tal competence?” This research aims to design a process to develop a cooperative education system that can enhance the assessment of digital competence. Moreover, it also contributes to a shared economy and led to the open digital labor market as the 4 http://www.i-joe.org