AI, Blockchain and Self-Sovereign Identity in Higher Education

1. The Role of Blockchain with a Cybersecurity Maturity Model in the Governance of Higher Education Supply Chains.- 2. Fighting the Tide - GPT and An Alarming Sense of Déjà Vu.- 3. Embedding AI in Higher Education: a call for a service design approach.- 4. An empirical study into Ransomware campaigns against the Education Sector & adopting the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Framework.- 5. Strategic Decision-Making for Pedagogical Course Planning using NLP in Social Media.- 6. The Use of Virtual Learning Environments in Higher Education - Content, Community and Connectivism - Learning From Student Users.- 7. Influence of Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education; Impact, Risk and Counter Measure.- 8. Development of a Decentralized Personal Indefinable information (PII) management systems using Blockchain DBFT consensus Algorithm.- 9. Security Framework for Big Data usage in cloud-based e-learning application.- 10. A proactive approach to protect cloud computing environment against a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.

Professor Hamid Jahankhani has taught at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, full and part time, and supervised and examined research students at the M.Phil., Ph.D. levels and Doctorate in Professional Studies (D.Prof.). Hamid's teaching has covered a broad range of computing modules in particular Information Security Management, Information Security Risk and Audit, Digital Forensics, Systems Design & Development, Telecommunications and Networking and Computer Systems. Hamid's principal research area for a number of years has been in the field of information security management and digital forensics.

Dr Arshad Jamal is Dean and Director of Research and Education at Northumbria University London Campus with QAHE. He has substantial experience in academic leadership, strategic planning, people development, programme development, teaching and research. Arshad has wealth of industry and consultancy experience. He has also worked as Chief Technical Officer and led teams to deliver large IT projects. He holds a Ph.D. in Information Systems and Computing from Brunel University and is Internationally Recognised Academic. His teaching background covers a diverse range of subjects including Information Systems, Business and Data Analytics, Big Data, AI, Machine Learning, Operations and Supply Chain Management, Strategic Management, Strategic Leadership, E-Business and Information Security. His research interest lies in Information Systems, Information Security, AI and Data Analytics, Knowledge Management, Technostress, Operations Management and E-Learning. He has published research in peer-reviewed journals and conferences as well as edited books and authored book chapters.

Dr Guy Brown is Dean of students who had designed, delivered and evaluated a range of higher education projects to embed the use of technology in all aspects of the student journey, including pre enrolment, on-boarding, educational analytics, technology-led personal