EDUCATION: Blockchain at University and my experience

As I mentioned in my previous post, I’m a final year student at University in the UK. Having now finished exams I wanted to reflect on a few things now my degree is completed, to give the community a point of view from a University student.

I mentioned in April about a gift card scheme as a means to lock away liquidity for a period of time in order to preserve the market price of STEEM. Overall, I received some really good and valuable feedback, however one question was brought up by @steevc, “DO THEY TEACH BLOCKCHAIN IN COMPUTER SCIENCE COURSES THESE DAYS?”. This intrigued me.

The straight up answer is “sort of”. Two modules in third year have introduced the concept to us, one from a security point of view and the other from a more functional point of view. I think it’s great that that we’re being taught about the underlying concept but both modules taught us “Bitcoin” not “Blockchain”.

Over the past year or so, I’ve asked some non-technical friends on what they think “Blockchain” is and their response has almost always been “Bitcoin”, which represents a problem to be addressed – EDUCATION.

I’ve explained the concept of Steem to friends and colleagues of which several people have signed up including @fanouropittas, who thought Steem/Steemit was an amazing idea!

I believe it’s important to have programmes such as #promo-uk run by @StephenKendal, since it’s a great way of spreading the word and this needs to keep happening for education purposes.

It’s a case of making Blockchain/Cryptocurrencies accessible to younger individuals, but also teaching us the investing mindset.

This is from my experience at University and thus may differ between institutions. It would be great to hear the point of view from other students across the wide range of subjects available at University.

I hope this provides an insight into what is happening at University currently, and I’ll happily take any questions about this :)

Kind Regards,
Kiran