{"id":61167,"date":"2017-10-25T11:57:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T15:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=61167"},"modified":"2017-10-25T12:02:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T16:02:19","slug":"mit-pilots-digital-diplomas-based-on-bitcoins-blockchain-bolkan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2017\/10\/25\/mit-pilots-digital-diplomas-based-on-bitcoins-blockchain-bolkan\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Pilots Digital Diplomas Based on Bitcoin&#8217;s Blockchain [Bolkan]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/campustechnology.com\/articles\/2017\/10\/19\/mit-pilots-digital-diplomas-based-on-bitcoins-blockchain.aspx?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>MIT Pilots Digital Diplomas Based on Bitcoin&#8217;s Blockchain<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from campustechnology.com by Joshua Bolkan<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has begun offering some students the option to receive digital diplomas through an app, in addition to a traditional paper degree.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Based on Bitcoin&#8217;s blockchain technology and integrated with the school&#8217;s identity provider, the new diplomas are the result of a partnership between MIT and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learningmachine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learning Machine<\/a>, a local software company. The electronic credentials were rolled out over the summer and offered to 111 students as part of a <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/registrar\/records\/certs\/digital_faqs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pilot program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Also see:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.learningmachine.com\/case-studies-mit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61169\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DigitalDiplomas-Oct2017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"541\" height=\"761\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DigitalDiplomas-Oct2017.jpg 541w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DigitalDiplomas-Oct2017-107x150.jpg 107w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT Pilots Digital Diplomas Based on Bitcoin&#8217;s Blockchain &#8212; from campustechnology.com by Joshua Bolkan Excerpt: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has begun offering some students the option to receive digital diplomas through an app, in addition to a traditional paper degree. Based on Bitcoin&#8217;s blockchain technology and integrated with the school&#8217;s identity provider, the new [&hellip;]<\/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":[113,819,61,115,302,32,210,533,3,419,239,321,214,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-blockchain","category-business-side-of-he","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-education-technology","category-emerging-technologies","category-experimentation","category-higher-education","category-ideas-teaching","category-new-business-models","category-united-states","category-universities","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61170,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61167\/revisions\/61170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}