{"id":67337,"date":"2019-06-04T14:29:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T18:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=67337"},"modified":"2019-06-04T14:37:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T18:37:21","slug":"going-beyond-the-digital-diploma-friedman-blockchain-newmodels-emergingtechs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/06\/04\/going-beyond-the-digital-diploma-friedman-blockchain-newmodels-emergingtechs\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Beyond the Digital Diploma [Friedman] #blockchain #newmodels #emergingtechs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/campustechnology.com\/articles\/2019\/06\/04\/going-beyond-the-digital-diploma.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Going Beyond the Digital Diploma<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from campustechnology.com by Sara Friedman<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&#8220;We see great opportunities with this platform to create a more streamlined approach to help with students transferring, receiving degrees, honoring requests to verify degrees and to admit new students and evaluate their transcripts,&#8221; said ECPI University CIO Jeff Arthur. &#8220;The ability to let someone hold all of their accomplishments on their phone and have them to share with anybody in a way that is secure and reliable \u2014 without having to chase down entities to verify \u2014 is attractive to us.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nCollege and university CIOs also hope that blockchain technology can help to streamline other administrative functions. For instance, the ability to transfer credits between institutions could be simplified, according to Arthur.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>The next big leap for blockchain in the higher education space is likely to be the ability to put badges and certificates for technical skills on the chain.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>&#8220;We want to create a lifelong learning approach where people who want to represent their skills and experience can do so through a blockchain-based app,&#8221; said Callahan.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58689\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Blockchain-HE-Only1Source-DanielChristian2017-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Blockchain-HE-Only1Source-DanielChristian2017-2.jpg 668w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Blockchain-HE-Only1Source-DanielChristian2017-2-150x114.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going Beyond the Digital Diploma &#8212; from campustechnology.com by Sara Friedman Excerpts: &#8220;We see great opportunities with this platform to create a more streamlined approach to help with students transferring, receiving degrees, honoring requests to verify degrees and to admit new students and evaluate their transcripts,&#8221; said ECPI University CIO Jeff Arthur. &#8220;The ability to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[113,329,819,61,86,115,302,171,823,210,36,35,3,180,64,825,432,7,510,79,15,815,309,66,195,321,214,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-blockchain","category-business-side-of-he","category-change","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-consortiums","category-credentialing","category-emerging-technologies","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-higher-education","category-innovation","category-it-in-he","category-law-schools","category-learner-profiles","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-from-the-living-class-room","category-liberal-arts","category-lifelong-learning","category-microlearning","category-platforms","category-student-related","category-tools","category-united-states","category-universities","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67337","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=67337"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67341,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67337\/revisions\/67341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}