Jul 17, 2022Member-onlyHow Bitcoin And Ethereum Scaling Solutions Could Work For Higher EducationFebruary 23, 2018 You may have heard of an issue with Bitcoin that some say makes it unusable for day to day transactions. This is known as the ‘Bitcoin Scalability Problem.’ The problem is that Bitcoin is limited by its 1MB block size, which has slowed transactions down to between…5 min read5 min read
Jul 17, 2022Member-onlyMIT Awards Degrees Via BlockchainDecember 15, 2017 One of the first use cases that deployed blockchain in higher education unsurprisingly came out of MIT and their partnership with BlockCert and Learning Machine. After several years of innovating and most certainly a lot of hard work, the trio developed a distributed ledger solution that was…2 min read2 min read
Jul 17, 2022Member-onlyCollege Income Sharing Agreements Have PotentialJanuary 15, 2021 With $1.6 trillion in student debt, rising college costs, and the demand for an increasingly tech-savvy workforce, we must change how we support student access through affordable options to four-year colleges. The idea of income sharing agreements was hatched by Nobel-Prize winning economist Milton Friedman over 50…4 min read4 min read
Jul 17, 2022Member-onlyA Walk On The BlockMarch 23, 2018 Incredibly sharp and thoughtful beings from across the globe have taken advantage of new tools and platforms to advance distributed ledger technologies with intense alacrity, efficiency and application. The technology and communication avenues of today were not available when the Internet took off — but they are…1 min read1 min read
Jul 17, 2022Member-onlyBlockchain & HigherEd Compliance Mandates Via EU GDPRFebruary 21, 2018 HigherEd Records Must be Compliant Policy makers in the European Union took on an on-going concern from citizens about the use and privacy of personal data by companies, governments and other entities. Back in 2015, they agreed to a brand new set of policies and put it into legislation for the first…3 min read3 min read
Jul 17, 2022Member-onlyBitDegree Fills Tech Gap In Higher Ed Using BlockchainHigher Education in the United States is woefully behind — January 18, 2018 Higher Education in the United States is woefully behind in preparing our youth for boundless opportunities in the rapidly growing technology sector. This isn’t just due to what’s happening in the classroom, it’s due to a structure that can’t support itself: High costs: Tuition has increased over…4 min read4 min read
Jul 17, 2022Member-onlySelf-Owned Academic Credentials On The BlockchainOctober 4, 2017 The current higher education credentialing system is riddled with inefficiencies, slow turnaround times for requests, and lots of administrative overhead. It is a sadly needed but archaic system that is ripe for disruption and improvement. Have you ever needed to ask for your university for your transcripts…4 min read4 min read
Mar 31, 2021Member-onlyChange is Here for Higher EdThe times have surpassed the model, and change is here — About 90% of all college students in the US are enrolled in institutions that face potentially existential challenges. For these institutions, change is not an option; it’s a necessity. …College6 min readCollege6 min read
Jun 16, 2018How to Influence an Entire MarketWe are all trying to influence markets to hear our message, change their opinion, generate excitement in what we do, and connect their universe to a new way of thinking. Market segmentation dates back at least to the ancient Greeks when Aristotle wrote about the art of persuasion in Rhetoric. …Blockchain3 min readBlockchain3 min read
