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Will Blockchains Revolutionize Education?

Although most ideas for using blockchains in education are overhyped, carefully designed distributed ledgers show promise. Blockchains, first introduced by Satoshi Nakamoto for use in bitcoin, are now being used across many industries. At their core, blockchains are trustworthy, distributed digital ledgers. Unlike databases maintained by a centralized authority that guarantees data integrity through its […]

Open Source University: The Worlds Academic & Career Development Ledger

Open Source University The OS.University decentralized platform bridges the gap between businesses and education through ​blockchain ​(used for validating and verifying learners’ credentials) and ​smart contracts(managing content purchases, marketplace transactions and hiring processes). We apply open source technologies and principles of collaboration to re-engineer the current-state educational model by building a system to enable smarter […]