If we happened to be in Berkeley CA today, we might be able to attend an Ed Surge sponsored “Meetup” to discuss “Blockchain, Bitcoing, and Digital Credentials in Higher Ed.” If not, it’s live-streaming at 8pm MST here. Bitcoin is about half of the valuation, as of 2/7/18, but it changes every day; using it for tuition isn’t really groundbreaking for learning. Hopefully, the part PSA is most interested in, using Blockchain as a way to legitimize digital credentials, is less volatile.
That’s the “singularity moment” for online learning…when credentials for individuals finally escape being captive to large institutional gatekeepers of “graduation and degrees”, and similar official recognition of learning achievements. Rather, learning achievement would include all learning activities however eclectic and disperse in origin, such as online makes possible, and would be valid for employment.
IOW, we are in the transition period from credentials based on a physical institution with standardized course lengths and formats, to a virtual location, where learning can be aggregated together independently of where it occurred. Say goodbye to transfer of credit hassles…but more to the point, take advantage of all the online learning can enable, which is, in many important ways, a thorough rethinking of what learning is, and how we do it.
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