{"id":562,"date":"2017-10-23T22:01:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T22:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/?page_id=562"},"modified":"2024-03-04T13:24:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T21:24:25","slug":"abstract-blockchain-revolution-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/abstract-blockchain-revolution-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Abstract: Blockchain Revolution &#038; Higher Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">\u201c<em>Blockchain Revolution &amp; Higher Education<\/em>\u201d by Dan Tapscott and Alex Tapscott in Educause Review\u00a0March\/April 2017<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/er.educause.edu\/articles\/2017\/3\/the-blockchain-revolution-and-higher-education\">https:\/\/er.educause.edu\/articles\/2017\/3\/the-blockchain-revolution-and-higher-education<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nEducause Review (why IT matters to higher education): \u201cWhat if there was an Internet of value \u2014 a global, distributed, highly secure platform, ledger, or database where we could store and exchange things of value and where we could trust each other without powerful intermediaries? That is the blockchain.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cThe blockchain can be programmed to record virtually everything of value and importance to humankind, starting with birth certificates and moving on to educational transcripts, social security cards, student loans, and anything else that can be expressed in code. \u201c\u00a0 A new pedagogy includes using blockchain to track student involvement in projects and experiential work rather than traditional lecture\/testing class models. Students could show skills learned before getting their degree, employers could query the blockchain to find students with a particular learned skill set even before a degree is earned.\u00a0 (Melanie Swan is looking to the blockchain to tackle student debt head-on. She is the founder of the Institute for Blockchain Studies. \u2013 someone\/org we should look into??)\u00a0 Using a blockchain to track a student\u2019s progress in mastering the course material, would allow scholarships to provide smaller sums of money based directly on continued progress, and the blockchain provides a better way to prevent fraudulent use of that scholarship money.\u00a0 \u201cThe blockchain provides a rich, secure, and transparent platform on which to create a global network for higher learning. We believe that higher education works best when it works for all types of teaching and learning, and we believe that this new platform is an engine of inclusion.\u201d\u00a0 Blockchain technology has the potential to create innovations in higher education in areas such as student records management, teaching, education funding and value and the sharing of information and educational materials on a global network. The argument is that these changes are in the best interests of students despite potential pushback from faculty\u00a0and administration for uprooting the status quo.<\/p>\n<p>Tags: blockchains, higher education, articles, intermediate level<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBlockchain Revolution &amp; Higher Education\u201d by Dan Tapscott and Alex Tapscott in Educause Review\u00a0March\/April 2017\u00a0 https:\/\/er.educause.edu\/articles\/2017\/3\/the-blockchain-revolution-and-higher-education Educause Review (why IT matters to higher education): \u201cWhat if there was an Internet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-562","page","type-page","status-publish","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56844,"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/562\/revisions\/56844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}