There is a in-depth discussion of this at
otlw.co if you want to jump straight into it. If not I will summarize below.
A decentralized education system could provide a powerful level of education to any individual and increase the opportunities offered as well. It would function by having every individual function as both an assessors and a student, participation in both aspects required for the other.
Assessment would be through a consensus system, calling multiple assessors with experience (as defined by their own assessments within the system) to assess. The result will be calculated taking into account the assessors previous accuracy/honesty and then their individual scores will be measured against it. A more accurate score will receive a greater reward in the form of tokens. These tokens allow the individuals to initiate assessments of themselves. They can also be committed to group learning contracts, to form a group of people committed to working with each other to learn a specific subject and eventually be assessed on it.
This generalized system can function in any level of education from high schools to universities, supported by different outside tools throughout, such as teachers or advisors in younger years, or institutions for research level topics.
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I have been exploring some impact scenarios for distance learning using blockchain - or some other decentralised database/ledger system. Technology-enhanced learning (TeL) experts seem to be satisfied with MOOCs, but I think we are still letting students down with centralised approach and could offer much more. The one downside with peer-to-peer is that prisoners - a big community in mature learners - are denied access to online activities in the UK which means all online delivery methods must have an offline option.
I was curious to know how you are progressing and if you had been able to gather feedback?
best wishes
In terms of feedback I haven't received much criticism of the system lately, but there has been a slow but significant amount of interest.