MIT Media Lab Uses the Bitcoin Blockchain to Issue Academic Certificates
Members of the MIT Media Lab have related in a Medium post what they have learned from designing a system for issuing academic certificates using bitcoin blockchain technology. The team released version 1 of its code under its open source license to allow others to experiment with similar ideas. The lab wants to share its ideas behind the design. The team members who authored the blog include Juliana Nazare, a graduate student in the Program in Media Arts and Sciences at the lab, Kim Hamilton Duffy, a principal engineer at Learning Machine, and J. Philipp Schmidt, director of learning....
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Holberton Software Engineering School announced it will become the first school to deliver academic certificates that are secured and accessible via Bitcoin’s blockchain. To this end, the school has collaborated with Bitcoin startup Bitproof that specializes in document certification on the blockchain. The new blockchain-powered certificates should make it easier for employers to verify job candidates’ backgrounds and reduce the number of false resumes. According to the information in Holberton school blog, each graduate will be given a paper certificate and a Digital Certificate Number....
The Kenyan government is utilizing Blockchain to develop an immutable and transparent education management system. The Ministry of Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) is currently collaborating with IBM to enable schools and other educational institutions to issue academic certificates on a cloud-based Blockchain network. In a recently released report, the Association of International Educators (NAFSA), which represents over 10,000 members and 3,500 institutions located across 150 countries, revealed that academic fraud is becoming a serious issue for prominent and reputable....
Blockchain is making its presence felt in diverse fields. In the field of education at least the news has centered on the courses that the universities are offering and the buzz that these courses have created. However, blockchain is now going to ensure that your school certificates are authentic too; this is quite similar to the nascent trend in the music industry which is trying to look for ways by which to use this technology to ensure fair licensing and global royalty distribution. Therefore, keeping these developments in mind the announcement by Holberton School, that it would use the....
Holberton School, a software engineering school in San Francisco, claims to be the first school to deliver is academic certificates secured and accessible via the block chain. The school has partnered with Bitproof.io, which notarizes documents in the block chain. This goal is to help employers verify academic credentials quickly. Verifying document authenticity easily and economically is one of many uses the block chain brings to business, industry and academia. Block Chain Offers A Secure Environment. Holberton School will issue digital certificates in a secure environment. Accessing the....
MIT Media Labs digital certification project has been going on for a year now and the students learned a great deal about blockchain technology. MIT Media Lab blog has published a new paper called “What we learned from designing an academic certificates system on the blockchain” which researches the attributes of using distributed ledger technology with digital certification. For a year, the team of researchers worked on a project to verify digital credentials using the Bitcoin Blockchain and Mozilla Open Badges. The MIT Researchers say the Bitcoin Blockchain is the ‘most tested and....