Online Learning Update

November 26, 2018

Blockchain diplomas land in Virginia at ECPI

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:05 am

By Jacob Demmit, Roanoke Times
Virginia colleges are beginning to embrace the idea of blockchain diplomas, as Virginia Beach-based ECPI University has joined a group of early adopters that distribute student degrees through the same kind of decentralized computer networks that power Bitcoin. Virginia Tech, meanwhile, is in the early stages of considering its own launch, according to Tech spokesman Mark Owczarski. The concept behind the technology is virtually unchanged, except ECPI is using the blockchain to issue digital degrees instead of digital currencies.

https://www.roanoke.com/news/education/higher_education/blockchain-diplomas-land-in-virginia-at-ecpi/article_211a7a4d-3bd8-5157-8445-5ee1052ff2d4.html

Share on Facebook

No Comments

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post.

Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.

Powered by WordPress