Blockchain in Education Summit

BOSTON USA has been selected as the official site for the Immersive Education Initiative's inaugural Blockchain in Education Summit (iED 2018).

The opening keynote this year is an MIT professor who co-founded the MIT Media Lab, and features a number of related workshops (for Virtual Reality, Minecraft for education, Scratch, Pokemon Go for education, and others).

The conference addresses the "tokenization" of education, posting & securing learner data (grades, diplomas, certifications, credentials, etc.) on blockchains, trends in teaching blockchain concepts from K-12 through Higher Education, research projects, and legal issues related to privacy and protecting Intellectual Property when using blockchain technology.

Conference speakers have included faculty, researchers and administrators from organizations such as the United Nations, NASA, United States Department of Education, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MIT Media Lab, Smithsonian Institution, Disney, Google, Microsoft, Intel, United States Department of the Interior (DOI) National Park Service, Stanford University, USC, UCLA, and others.

The Blockchain in Education Summit convenes the world's leading experts this fall to: 1) address the emerging role of blockchain technology in the fields of education and training, and 2) examine the role and impact of academic and corporate research on blockchain technologies and standards.

Official Website

Visit the official conference website at: http://summit.ImmersiveEducation.org/Boston

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