Blockstack PBC, a public benefit corporation focused on pushing the decentralized Blockstack computing network forward, has teamed with Lambda School to help students offset tuition and create new career pathways.
Based in New York, Blockstack is building an ecosystem that gives users control over their fundamental digital rights: identity,
Arizona State University is developing a blockchain platform to share academic credentials between community colleges and universities.
University news site Inside Higher Ed reported that Arizona State’s central enterprise unit EdPlus is working with cloud software firm Salesforce to create a blockchain-based student data network that will enable participating institutions to share and verify students’ academic records.
SWAYAM, a learning platform supported by the Indian Ministry of Human Resource Development, is offering undergraduates a free course on bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and blockchains.
The 12-week interactive course, titled “Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases,” is a joint venture from academia and industry,
The University of British Columbia (UBC) has launched “Canada’s first blockchain and distributed ledger technology training path for graduate students.”
UBC a public research university with campuses in Vancouver and Kelowna, British Columbia. The university is consistently ranked among the top 20 public universities in the world.
Dublin City University, in partnership with non-profit body Technology Ireland ICT Skillnet, will be launching “Ireland’s first ever Master’s in Blockchain.”
The degree, announced by the Irish government’s Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation, is in response to the National Blockchain strategy and aligned to the government’s Future Jobs Ireland initiative’s aim of enhancing skills and developing and attracting talent.
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is offering a new online course on blockchain and cryptocurrencies.
The new online program, titled “Fintech: Foundations and Applications of Financial Technologies, is designed to introduce students to the fundamental building blocks of financial technologies and real-world applications.
Cryptocurrency is fast becoming the industry its founders always envisioned it could be – a way to speed international payments, a vehicle for everyday transactions, and a transformative means of funding and fueling new businesses and innovative ideas.
In order to keep this developing ecosystem healthy and supplied with new workers,
A new group has been formed by nine major universities in order to create a trusted, distributed, and shared infrastructure standard for issuing, storing, displaying, and verifying academic credentials, digitally.
Called Digital Credentials, the new group will explore how recent advances in public key infrastructures,
Japanese IT firm Fujitsu and Sony Global Education are initiating a field trial to evaluate the usefulness of blockchain technology in the management of course records and grade data.
The trial, which will run until March 29, is being conducted in collaboration with Human Academy,
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