{"id":66719,"date":"2019-03-30T09:22:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T13:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=66719"},"modified":"2019-03-30T09:24:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T13:24:31","slug":"blockchains-potential-for-education-friedman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/03\/30\/blockchains-potential-for-education-friedman\/","title":{"rendered":"Blockchain\u2019s potential for education [Friedman]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thejournal.com\/articles\/2019\/03\/28\/blockchains-potential-for-education.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Blockchain\u2019s potential for education<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from thejournal.com by Sara Friedman<br \/>\n<em>While the technology is still in the nascent stages, blockchain-based education systems have the potential to revolutionize how school districts manage student data.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">In the education space, the technology has the potential to revolutionize how school districts share and maintain data, but the technology hasn\u2019t trickled down to the K-12 environment yet.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nUniversities started exploring this space over the last few years in academic credentialing. Transcripts, grades, test scores and digital diplomas could be stored in a student\u2019s digital wallet, where the student has control over how the information could be shared. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blockcerts.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blockcerts,<\/a>\u00a0developed by\u00a0MIT\u2019s Integrated Learning Initiative\u00a0and\u00a0Learning Machine, is one initiative that is helping universities and students take ownership of their data when it comes to digital diplomas.Southern New Hampshire University\u00a0and\u00a0Central New Mexico Community College\u00a0have also taken steps to offer digital diplomas to their graduates.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Also see:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thejournal.com\/articles\/2019\/03\/28\/blockchain-deployment-checklist.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Blockchain deployment checklist<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from thejournal.com by Sara Friedman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blockchain\u2019s potential for education &#8212; from thejournal.com by Sara Friedman While the technology is still in the nascent stages, blockchain-based education systems have the potential to revolutionize how school districts manage student data. Excerpt: In the education space, the technology has the potential to revolutionize how school districts share and maintain data, but the technology [&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":[86,208,823,419,46,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-cloud-based-computing-apps","category-credentialing","category-ideas-teaching","category-k-12-related","category-student-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66719","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=66719"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66723,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66719\/revisions\/66723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}