Blockchain ledger is revolutionary because ... :
1 Tracks transactions
the way it tracks and stores data is in a CHAIN of blocks
2 Decentralized and distributed so it creates TRUST in the data (2:20)
solves a cryptographic puzzle as first step to adding a block in the ledger
3 No more intermediaries -
i.e. such as bankers/lawyers etc. (3:20)
See "What is blockchain" - https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/957308334154985472
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Hi Tanya,
Brainstorming-wise, here's a possible project that comes to mind with your course, and upcoming project re "The critical role of technology-based, disruptive innovations to a business":
Since you're familiar with the online education industry re WUaS, please consider asking some of these questions - http://www.tanyatomato.com/2018/09/project.html - for your project re WUaS. One possible practical approach might have to do with an already existing relatively robust platform such as edX - and particularly with regard to their use of CC-4 MIT OCW into MITx - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mitx-related-courseware/ - and further how a collaboration between MITx and WUaS might occur around the CC-4 MIT OCW, making this available to students in countries around the world first in English, and also in seeking reimbursement from Ministries of Education per student per year for A) undergraduate Bachelor's degrees (about 40 courses over 4 years), and B) Ph.D. over 6-7 years in all ~200 countries. What further courses would be helpful for students in MITx for WUaS's six majors - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - etc?
A realistic virtual earth as classrooms and STEM field site (think Google Street View with time slider / Maps / Earth) could be a further element to this. How to turn this both WUaS and a realistic virtual earth as disruptive technologies into strategies?
You may well have other projects in mind, but this is an interesting relevant one that could lead to further career steps at WUaS, for example.
Cheers, Scott
- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor
- World University and School
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Hi Scott,
I've tried to think about how I would write about online education and I didn't dismiss the thought right away, but I had already been researching blockchain and the airline industry. I'll try to keep something like that in mind for future classes.
Tanya
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Sounds like a good idea, Tanya,
Brainstorming-wise, am curious how such a block chain ledger could emerge from the WUaS Corp's Google 'Knowledge Panel" in the Google ecosystem ... see beginning World Univ & Sch's (different from the WUaS Corp's) Google knowledge panels below.... re African (or M.E.), Airlines' planning (and United's) for reversing Global Warming (thinking Quaker abolitionism here too) in a realistic virtual earth (think StreetView with MIT's chemistry department in Google Earth) ...
Thanks, and looking forward to what you focus on and study further re researching blockchain and the airline industry.
Cheers, Scott
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It looks like WUaS got a 'Knowledge Panel" in Google Search -
https://www.google.com/search?ei=58m8W_v3EauR0gLNn4iACA&q=world+university+and+school+&oq=world+university+and+school+&gs_l=psy-ab.3..35i39l2j38.7781.7781..8084...0.0..0.94.94.1......0....1..gws-wiz.......0i71.Eb-0ZBNlwK8
- and -
https://www.google.com/search?q=World+University+and+School&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgecTozS3w8sc9YSmnSWtOXmO04eIKzsgvd80rySypFNLjYoOyVLgEpXj10_UNDdPTDLLLM5KyNBik-LlQhXgAUjKX4FAAAAA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjQy_eM2PndAhUIEXwKHVxqAO4Q6RMwIHoECAcQBA&biw=1440&bih=793…
but that Google "will be turning down the donate button feature this week as we continue to work on improving the overall donation tools product experience."
I created 3 Tweets about this -
- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1049685384286728192
- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1049685618312196096
- https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1049685777980899328
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Hi Tanya,
Some further questions & ideas came to mind with regard to your "researching blockchain and the airline industry", brainstorming-wise, which perhaps I can ask you about in the form of questions, and re what you've been learning, research, reading and studying thus far with regard to the blockchain ledger. I'll seek to phrase these as questions that could possibly dovetail with your own research questions.
Could the van pool at Haverford college be thought of as a specific airline's planes? And could Haverford create a blockchain for student groups using these vans for field trips? So if there was a blockchain ledger for this and every time a van was used, a block for the financial exchange was created, could this both increase trust in the Haverford van pool's usage (since the block chain ledger is distributed and decentralized, and unchangeable once a block has been added, and could this reduce intermediaries in student groups using the Haverford van pool - perhaps a Haverford administrator who organizes the student groups use of the Haverford van pool, thus saving Haverford ~$75,000 per year for this administrator's position?). Re how the blockchain ledger works from another perspective, see Vala Afshar's tweets here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/10/feather-stars-blockchainforeducation.html - eg https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1046479576069681152 ...
And if you had Swarthmore's van pool setting up a blockchain ledger for their van pool? And SEPTA in the Philadelphia area? And an 'Airporter" van company as a private entity, more akin to a single airline? And further re airlines, what if you personally, or WUaS, could set up a blockchain ledger for your own airline service - eg https://www.cheapoair.com/flights/newsletters/oct1018?fpaffiliate=ret-coa-eenl-flight&fpsub=transactional_752507_t7_flight-oct1018_responsive-ctgn-752507-d3maincta&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wednesdaynl&tag=d3maincta&cmpid=752507&audid=15923933 ... How would these all compare with you studying United as a blockchain ledger?
And further, getting back to the Haverford van pool blockchain ledger questions, and focusing on the students themselves using these vans sometimes - with accordant exchanges in the related blockchain ledger - what happens if WUaS has matriculated students - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University (and in all living languages - 7097 living languages) - in each of all ~200 countries' main languages, and who are all traveling around the world on service projects, and to do field work for courses, and attend STEM conferences in all 200 countries, and studying WUaS for free-to-students' degrees (which their countries were reimbursing WUaS for), how would reimbursement exchanges from WUaS StudentTravel to WUaS Travel (to the actual airlines themselves) work in this blockchain?
Lastly, if WUaS could do this in an emergent single cryptocurrency with blockchain ledger backed by ~200 countries' central banks ... and with planning for an Universal Basic Income for all 7.5 billion people on the planet, how would this work in specific blockchains with airline industries, perhaps with Haverford student groups also compensating airline industries, in addition to the Haverford college van pool?
Just some further questions related to your interesting research topic.
Cheers, Scott
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And all from the WUaS Press/Corp's BOTH A) knowledge panel, as well as from B) 7.5 billion "You at WUaS" es - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - (and possibly re individual airlines and stock markets in each of ~200 countries?)
Cheers, Scott
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