BitDegree : Earn for learn - New Era of MOOC's
1. What is BitDegree ?
BitDegree is the world's first blockchain-powered, smart-incentive based online education platform which will revolutionize global education and tech recruiting. BitDegree shall directly align the incentives of students and anyone who wants them to become digitally smarter - like current or potential employers, digital service providers, and sponsors.
BitDegree is an educational platform for everyone who is willing to study and get IT job.
2. How it will be different from Coursera?
BitDegree purporting that they will be providing the highest quality IT courses website similar to Coursera. The difference is smart-contract based rewards for students learning on the platform. In short, it means students, in addition getting direct benefits for learning on BitDegree platform, which leads to higher education level and lowers barrier to enter job marketplace.
3. Courses that will be available on BitDegree?
As they said in there white paper they will focus on courses that will be IT oriented.Smart contract development course with collaboration with Nexchange.io is their first course. Some other courses are Introduction to Crypto and Cryptocurrencies, Web Development theory & Many others on the way.
4. How much will it cost to study on BitDegree?
For 1st Year all courses will be free, So go & make most out of it because these are the courses which are in high demand and costly on other platforms. In future, BitDegree courses will cost you some tokens.
5. How BitDegree will ensure that student learned a course online?
Proof of effort verification process will be used. Students will play an important role in this as they will be incentivized to do the peer-review process for assignments. Course tutor BitDegree token is received for each peer-review students submit.
6. How many tokens will student receive for finished course?
This will vary according to some factors like who is the sponsor of the course, your geolocation, language & tutors.
7. How will our degrees become internationally recognized?
They will provide blockchain based certificates issued by BitDegree. They will use a 3rd party service like blockcerts.org ( Will tell you about it next blog ). Everybody will be able to see each student progress.
8. What do Tokens represent?
Think of a token as a mini-voucher that can be exchanged for services on many digital service providers. Hostinger is the first one who accepts BitDegree token in exchange for services.
Facts Time:-
- Student Using MOOC's:- 78M+
- University registered :- 800+
- Course offered :- 9.4K+
- Top five MOOC providers by registered users :-
a) Coursera – 30 million users
b) edX – 14 million users
c) XuetangX – 9.3 million users
d) FutureLearn – 7.1 million users
e) Udacity – 5 million users
Data by MOOCs in 2017
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