Will Blockchains Revolutionize Education?
Although most ideas for using blockchains in education are overhyped, carefully designed distributed ledgers show promise.
Dave McArthur is a consultant who has worked with many educational technology organizations. Most recently he collaborated with Eduworks on the development of open-source tools for competency and skills management. In the past he worked for RAND, National Science Foundation and the Univerity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Although most ideas for using blockchains in education are overhyped, carefully designed distributed ledgers show promise.