Blockchain Technologies and Education

Blockchain is the ideal combination of security and accessibility for universities dealing with highly sensitive student data.

As global banking and financial groups vie to explore the potential of Blockchain technology, some analysts believe it offers the capability to revolutionise financial services. In this educational piece, Newton portfolio manager Paul Markham surveys the evolving market landscape.

The new technology, which allows for the transmission of data free of a centralized authority, has drawn the curiosity of the ed-tech community.

Share with:  Learning Machine and MIT Media Lab’s Learning Initiative have just rolled out the first version of an open-source project that builds an ecosystem for creating, sharing, and verifying Blockchain-based educational credentials. These certificates can be collected by individuals and shared directly with anyone who requires official documents. It’s as simple as sending a link. The …

Empower your people with verifiable digital records.

Some schools are using bitcoin technology, blockchain, to record students' achievements in a cheap, secure and public way.

Blockchain is an emerging technology that has the potential to disrupt the higher education status quo. Here's six ways how.

We’re still writing as if Bitcoin were supremely relevant, I see editor’s picks on Medium about Bitcoin. Even as its price has slumped, from nearly 20,000 to currently around $7,500. Not just that, crypto has been dragged through the mud, as if crypto and blockchain weren’t two sides of the same coin!

ICO fraud, crypto pump and dump schemes, rankings in crypto and for ICOs that make little sense, poorly written spammy content about every side-angle about crypto — but everyone is seemingly on the blockchain train.

As someone who has worked in data policy and data protection for 20 years, I read privacy policies for a living. I take notice when I get the occasional email telling me that a website is updating their privacy policy or terms of service. Lately, that trickle has become a torrent in my inbox. The thing they all have in common is the effective date — May 25, 2018, the day the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect.

Society’s operating system needs an upgrade. The models we have been using are simply not up to the challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Education, like many industries, has a number of startups which claim to be using distributed ledger or blockchain technology, to disrupt the industry. Some 11 such startups have published white paper

A look at how blockchain technologies are being used in the education sector.

Blockchain is changing the way people complete transactions. This technology is no longer associated only with cryptocu

Blockchains have the ability to deeply impact the education sector. Multiple plausible impacts exist that will influence the learning industry. Read more!

Blockchain technology is commonly associated with cryptocurrencies—the best known of which is Bitcoin. However, the technology has applications that extend far beyond the financial realm, and blockchain is increasingly seen as a potential game-changer in education, especially eLearning. Understanding what blockchain is can help eLearning professionals understand how blockchain affects eLearning.

After announcing it was working with IBM to construct educational services, a new patent filing from Sony reveals the platform will be utilizing blockchai

A use-case on blockchain in education and why it may or may not work. (I look at what Open Source University are up to in Bulgaria and why blockchain may be answering the wrong question in education).