{"id":62072,"date":"2017-12-22T10:40:54","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T15:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=62072"},"modified":"2017-12-22T10:40:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T15:40:54","slug":"blockchain-bitcoin-and-the-tokenization-of-learning-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2017\/12\/22\/blockchain-bitcoin-and-the-tokenization-of-learning-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Blockchain, Bitcoin and the Tokenization of Learning [Johnson]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blockchain, Bitcoin and the Tokenization of Learning<\/strong><\/a> — from edsurge.com by Sydney Johnson<\/p>\n

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In 2014, Kings College in New York became the first university<\/a> in the U.S. to accept Bitcoin for tuition payments, a move that seemed more of a PR stunt than the start of some new movement. Much has changed since then, including the value of Bitcoin itself, which skyrocketed to more than $19,000 earlier this month, catapulting cryptocurrencies into the mainstream.<\/p>\n

A handful of other universities (and even preschools<\/a>) now accept Bitcoin for tuition, but that\u2019s hardly the extent of how blockchains and tokens are weaving their way into education: Educators and edtech entrepreneurs are now testing out everything from issuing degrees on the blockchain to paying people in cryptocurrency for their teaching.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Take <\/span>LiveEdu<\/a>, for example, a Y Combinator-backed online learning company that touts itself as being the \u201cnext-gen Lynda.com,\u201d referring to a platform that offers online courses and skills training. LiveEdu intends to offer user-created, project-based learning videos, and is currently undergoing an presale initial coin offering (ICO), where it aims to sell 8 million \u201cEDU\u201d tokens.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Blockchain, Bitcoin and the Tokenization of Learning — from edsurge.com by Sydney Johnson Excerpt (emphasis DSC): In 2014, Kings College in New York became the first university in the U.S. to accept Bitcoin for tuition payments, a move that seemed more of a PR stunt than the start of some new movement. Much has changed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,819,115,302,37,36,35,3,419,214,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-blockchain","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-future","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-higher-education","category-ideas-teaching","category-universities","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62072"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62074,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62072\/revisions\/62074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}