Topic: Available courses on Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology from colleges and Univers (Read 1874 times)

Thanks for the latest update and information tranthidung.
It's always nice to see the crypto-education going forward. Probably more university courses would appear soon.

There is neither increase nor change in crypto courses between 2 years 2018 and 2020, according to 2 articles.

Sources:

• the Coinbase's blog article: The rise of crypto in higher education (2018)
• 10 best universities to study blockchain degrees (2020)

Bump !

A reminder:
It is always best approach to start off with the two vital sites if you want to learn about bitcoin:

• https://bitcoin.org/en/
• https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Main_Page

Horizen Academy
Update!

Now, the academy is on Twitter.
(3) Horizen Academy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HorizenAcademy
(4) Twitter of Horizen Academy's announcement: https://twitter.com/HorizenAcademy/status/1230174294556073985

It would be great if you introduced courses on Bitcoin and blockchain technology from colleges and universities. Because there are many of us who want to work in crypto If we learn to work and watch videos after reading various books we can learn much easier if college and university are taught courses on bitcoin and blockchain technology. Every college and university needs to keep this course.

The government should focus on the teaching about financial literacy specially in high school and college. They should also offer courses about blockchain technology and cryptocurrency because it is our future mode of payment. Students should now be aware to what it is and its function for them to easily adapt it.

Wow, thank you for gathering this information! For us beginners in crypto it's really useful! 

Im suprised none of this courses mentioned Bitcoin in their name.
Its like Blockchain is a thing, which is not. Without Bitcoin there is no practical use of blockchain yet, only Bitcoin is because its hard to find reason to secure it with hundreds on millions of $ computing power, while project itself like Bitcoin won't give returns for it.
Bitcoin is only use of blockchain and will be for long. Only other purpose is goverment election = transparent.

Is this seriously required as these many days there was no such university but still everyone who wanted to read had achieved it.

I knew about that, but if people have demands and interests, they will dig deeply to find out more details. If they don't have interests, they don't spend a second to read.
Anyway, I am thankful for what you pointed out above.

tranthidung I saw you don't have the university of Nicosia listed here, I found about it in this link.


Also, Nicosia has a free MOOC, it's not related directly with blockchain, but it touches some topics related to blockchain like:

The Byzantine Generals’ problem
Bitcoin in practice
Digital currency basics
Alternative uses of the blockchain

source: https://www.unic.ac.cy/blockchain/free-mooc

Nicosia, Master’s in Digital Currency
The Master Degree includes the free MOOC

Thanks for these. This was exactly what I've been searching for.

Thanks. I saw that one one or three days ago, but forgot to add it here. In the article, there is some statistics on growth of student attention and participation in blockchain courses and related stuffs in last one year.

Coinbase also came up with a List of 2019 Top 10 leaders in Crypto Education

I added this article, Why Everyone Missed the Most Important Invention in the Last 500 Years
Additionally, I also found the list of 10+ universities offering blockchain courses from another thread, and updated OP today.

I categorize those courses listed here into two categories:
Traditional and online courses.
I am not sure, but students might take those traditional courses mandatorily or optional.
In contrast, I highly believe that students can take online courses for free or with fees but those online courses are optional, not mandatory. They are not prerequisite courses.
Online courses can be found on some platforms: Coursera.org; Udemy.com. Maybe there are more online courses than what I listed in OP (I did not check new courses on those platforms recent months).

Are college students actually taking any of these courses? Considering that it's not a prerequisite to their degrees and also they are adding much more cost to their tuition fees by just adding another optional subject to their expenses. If they do want to promote a blockchain related program in their college I think the option of offering a full course for free is a great option for them and the students especially if that course would only cover a small subject I don't think it would be the university's loss by giving it away for free. But that's just wishful thinking and I know universities like what's mentioned in the OP are strict on matters like this and they are just offering these courses just to say they are "involved" in cryptocurrencies.

Edit OP with other sources:

A video for BTC price prediction
Time to enjoy the video.

Update for someone who find the topic and the Horizen Academy the first time.

Around two months since the latest update, today I would like to share with you a very informative, comprehensive free course on blockchain technology.
This course built by Horizen project, and namely as Horizen Academy (Beta version for now).
Links:
(1) Horizen Academy (Beta version): https://academy.horizen.global/
(2) Announcement on the Horizen's blogsite: https://blog.zencash.com/horizen-launches-horizen-academy/

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Currently, the Horizen Academy provides course with six topics, at three levels.
Learners can choose the level appropriate for themselves, from Beginner, Advanced, to Expert.

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Added it into OP.

Today, I updated the topic with new course.
Five-moduled Dash Cryptocurrency Course by Dash Nigeria
There are five modules of the course:

I am not a big fan of courses by colleges and universities because many universities are just doing for the sake of taking hefty money from the students. However, if some want to still try blockchain courses and bitcoin courses & certifications from universities, then here are those universities offering it:

Stanford Graduate School of Business
Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
NYU's Stern School of Business
Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
MIT Sloan School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business
The Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania)
https://www.dash.org/2018/01/18/asu.html
https://scholarships.asu.edu/scholarship/100296
https://www.dashforcenews.com/new-asu-blockchain-lab-research-shows-dash-can-easily-scale-near-paypal-levels/
https://www.dashforcenews.com/dash-labs-making-significant-progress-on-enhancing-robustness-of-dash-network/

I have received an email from edX by LinuxfoundationX for just $178 you can go with their course.

Professional Certificate in
Blockchain for Business

There are other course too attached below it.

Blockchain: Understanding Its Uses and Implications ---> https://www.edx.org/course/understanding-blockchain-and-its-implications   

Blockchain for Business - An Introduction to Hyperledger Technologies --->https://www.edx.org/course/blockchain-for-business-an-introduction-to-hyperledger-technologies

The topic, namely Satoshi's lesson (released by Theymos) as his way to celebrate the tenth birthday of Bitcoin.

One more time, this topic is not a course, but it contents essential information, sources to learn more on bitcoin.
This one is the utmost important thing that any crypto enthusiast has to read carefully.

Occasionally, during my time spent in the forum, I saw the helpful Youtube channel on Blockchain.
Of course, this channel is not an official educational course on blockchain, but I posted it here because I think it helpful for new crypto enthusiasts.
The aantonop Youtube channel

Addtionally, coined1 made a high-qualitied Free Cryptocurrency Book

Let's get started and enjoy them!

You are welcome.
If you have something new in the future related to blockchain eduation, please update it here, because I might miss them somehow.
Highly appreciate your help.

Thank you tranthidung for including DNotes EDU in your "Available courses on Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology from colleges and Universities".

The industry needs more people like you that are willing to help people learn about cryptocurrency by directing them to trustworthy educational sites!

Also, thank you for posting this news on the DNotes thread - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1924858.new#new

Updated the topic with one more good artilce on DNotes EDU.
https://www.dnotesedu.com/2018/12/dnotes-edu-cryptocurrency-education-for-all-accomplishments-of-2018/
You can easily find lots of hepful information and links inside the article.

I figured out what's wrong. My link was broken.
Here
https://crypto-teacher.io

If anyone tried this courses - plz message me! I'm really interested and I think I'm going to go with this. But any advice is welcome. Maybe you have other ideas on what courses I should choose for a start.

Woow. Thanks! Really useful info.
I'm actually looking for some good online courses right now. Recently encountered some new ones. Wanted your advice. But can't post a link here, sorry. 

PayPal is also moving in this direction, apparently, they are already starting to use Blockchain.

https://coincodex.tv/videos/492/paypal-could-be-using-blockchain-technology-in-the-future

This is a great step in the right direction. Cryptocurrency is quite spread fast and the education about it is necessary. And the above courses are great and targeted at important aspect of cryptocurrency and which would develop the hole idea in future

You're really putting work into this coupled with time and efforts
This courses definitely will help to educate users more on cryptocurrency

Updated courses on Blockchain from Dash Scholar Programs, for today [the OP updated, too].
Enjoy it, everyone.

1. https://www.dash.org/2018/01/18/asu.html
2. https://scholarships.asu.edu/scholarship/100296
3. https://www.dashforcenews.com/new-asu-blockchain-lab-research-shows-dash-can-easily-scale-near-paypal-levels/
4. https://www.dashforcenews.com/dash-labs-making-significant-progress-on-enhancing-robustness-of-dash-network/

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By the way, I would like to suggest someone who have intention to leave a comment here, you all should try avoiding pyramid quotes.
Only quote specific points on which you want to imply/ discuss with; and delete all un-necessary stuffs inside original posts.
Doing this will help others easier to follow flows of ideas and avoid potential fingers' hurt due to over-srolling computer mouse.

For instance, the following post is a over-quoted one.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.45119651
The post's author should do this
Before leaving comments below.  

Thank you.
I added this one into the OP.
Blockchainsfactory.com

Next time, to save more space, you should snip un-necessary contents of threads you quoted. It should better quoted like mine below, if you don't want to point out any specific points in my original thread.

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Bumping the topic a bit after long silent period!

Today, I would like to give you link to the helpful topic, especially newcomers in the crypto world.
The topic, namely Terminology, itself presents its main objectives are to give full meanings of abbreviations, words, names and phrases on bitcointalk.
I have also added the topic into the OP.

Let's get started, everyone!

You are welcome!
I am from Vietnam, too. Glad to see you here.

Thank you for sharing useful information. I predict you come from Viet Nam. Me too. I join in this market almost 1 year but the basic concepts of blockchain often make difficult for me. Can you recommend some document or some group can provide basic knowledge about blockchain in Vietnamese ?

Currently in my country only teaching blockchain, there is no teaching of any cryptocurrency, I think this may have a relationship with the policy!

The topic looks silently over weeks.
Today, I would like to give you all (current guys who joined the topic discussions and someone will join later) a helpful topic, which created by @LoyceV:
[GUIDES] on Bitcointalk. Index thread (until there is a dedicated subforum?)
Of course, the topic is not a course on blockchain, but inside the topic, you can find lots of helpful Guidelines on blockchain in general and on bitcoin in particular.

Enjoy it, everyone!

Hi all,
Today I found another topic which has done great initiatives with informative videos.
There you go:
Idea: Courses [Video Tutorial 1.1.1 - Getting Started with Bitcoin Wallet]
You all should visit the topic and enjoy those videos.

In the future, learners can learn and get official bachelor or master degrees with online courses.
They might not have to go to schools to get degrees.

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Yeah, they can start anywhere they want, but might be good if start with my given courses.
Yeah, learners can get their certificates with Coursera online courses by now, might get official degree in the future.
There are lots of master degree courses in Coursera platform.

 A great resources for beginners to start their trading journey. HOping to see any of these online university offering a degree in cryptocurrency courses and the degree they will confer on participants.

Wow I'm amazed. I never knew there were schools actually educating people on blockchain. And it seems the U.S.A is taking the lead with this one. USA always take everything new thing as a competition and that's why they mostly lead the world in certain things. Very soon, when blockchain gets very popular people will travel to these schools to learn.

Update for today:
Blockchain on Campus: Universities Finding Their Role as Researcher and Promoter
Hope that all you guys like the article.
It's time to read and find out interesting information by yourself!

Yeah, you can check it there:
Australian Primary School Students Explore Bitcoin
This is very ambitious goal of Wooranna Park Primary School in Victoria, Australia.

Really? I’ll check that out. That is a great trend. But that is still not every secondary school in the world ))

Oh, it has been actually implemented in Australia. You can search this one with Google.

Those courses are very helpful.
Thank you very much for your time to collect those courses and make such helpful topic in the forum.

My general concern is whether there are enough specialists that actually can give a deep knowledge on BTC and Blockchain. Even your list of courses shows that there are the same people giving the course. The whole subject is still so young and I hope one day Blockchain will be included in every secondary school program.

Thanks for your intention to help me and make contribution, but most of courses in your link have already been presented in my OP.
I have not much free time to check all courses in your link ATM, but I will check all of them later.

I would like to make a contribution to your list: https://www.class-central.com/tag/blockchain

The classes listed here are all free and MOOC Certified Courses. Thanks for the other links, I will check them out.

Thanks for your suggestion, but I would like to focus on free courses, which your suggested course is not.
Yeah, this is one of the main reasons why I created the topic.

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Anyway, I give you one merit as reward for your contribution to my topic.

I'd like to add one more course: Blockchain Education by Asitha Koralage
This is purely for educational purpose (no seeding or advertising). When more people are educated, less get scammed.

Firstly, many thanks for your help with the very useful collection on free online courses on blockchain.
I knew about crypto months ago, and spent my time to read articles, youtube videos, but I did not know about these courses.
I will spend most of my spare time to watch and learn from them.

Secondly, I wish you will keep the topic as regularly updated as possible.

Good Compilation OP. Thanks for sharing it.

I can't believe theyoungmillionaire has a humorous side but still witty LOL. Good alliteration  

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Finally, I found a  great reference for online courses regarding cryptocurrencies. I am not satisfied with my knowledge about crypto lol.

Thanks for sharing this but... why did you post these on Meta? 

Simple predicate, you cannot indicate, how can you graduate?
Sorry, it just bumps into my head.

What your topic has to do with the Meta board?

Today, I would prefer to give you all crypto enthusiasts, especially newcomers, a bunches of courses (traditional and online ones) on Bitcoin and Blockchain technology.

In  my topic, I will split those courses into two types, one category for traditional courses, and another one category for online courses.
Now, let's kick off the topic with Traditional Courses.

A) Traditional Courses.
1. CS 5433 - Blockchains, Cryptocurrencies, and Smart Contracts
Cornell University.

2. Blockchain Executive Programme
University College London (UCL)

3. A blockchain center of The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

4. 10+ universities offering blockchain courses



I will update this section with more courses later

Original source

B) Online Courses:
1. Cryptocurrency Investment and Disruption
The London School of Economics and Political Science

2. Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies
Princeton University
Taught by:  Arvind Narayanan, Associate Professor, Computer Science

3. Blockchain Basics
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Taught by: Bina Ramamurthy, Teaching Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department

4. Blockchain Platforms
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Taught by:  Bina Ramamurthy, Teaching Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department

5. Decentralized Applications (Dapps)
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Taught by:  Bina Ramamurthy, Teaching Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department

6. Smart Contracts
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Taught by:  Bina Ramamurthy, Teaching Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department

7. IBM Blockchain Foundation for Developers
IBM
Taught by:
a) Ant Cole, WW Blockchain Enablement, IBM Blockchain
b) Dave Gorman, Global Blockchain Labs Engagement, IBM Industry Platform

8. Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies
University of California, Berkeley
Taught by:
a) Rustie Lin, Blockchain at Berkeley edX Lead, Instructor
b) Mengyi (Gloria) Wang, Blockchain at Berkeley edX Instructor

9. Blockchain: Understanding Its Uses and Implications
The Linux Foundation
Taught by:
a) Ernesto Lee, CTO, Blockchain Training Alliance
b) Kris Bennett, Senior Instructor, Blockchain Training Alliance
c) Rosa Santos, Director of Education, Blockchain Training Alliance

10. Blockchain and FinTech: Basics, Applications, and Limitations
University of Hong Kong
Taught by: Siu Ming Yiu, Associate Professor

11. Blockchain Technology
University of California, Berkeley
Taught by:
a) Rustie Lin, Blockchain at Berkeley edX Lead, Instructor, University of California, Berkeley
b) Nadir Akhtar, Blockchain at Berkeley edX Instructor, University of California, Berkeley

12. Oxford Blockchain Strategy Programme
University of Oxford
6 modules included, 6 week-period.

• Module 1: Understanding blockchain
  Module 2: The blockchain ecosystem
  Module 3: Innovations in value transfer
  Module 4: Decentralised apps and smart contracts
  Module 5: Transforming enterprise business models
  Module 6: Blockchain frontiers

13. Bitcoin: What is it?
Khan Academy.

14. Blockchainsfactory.com
Blockchains Factory


Other interesting courses:
Australian Primary School Students Explore Bitcoin
Wooranna Park Primary School in Victoria, Australia.

Helpful, informative articles:
In this section, I give links to interesting articles, which I found by chance.
Simply read and enjoy them if you don't know about those terms presented in given articles!

1) Decentralization: What Is It, Why Does It Matter, Can It Be Proven?


C) Topics on Crypto Terminology:
1) Terminology
The topic, itself presents its main objectives are to give full meanings of abbreviations, words, names and phrases on bitcointalk.

Dash Scholar Programs
1. https://www.dash.org/2018/01/18/asu.html
2. https://scholarships.asu.edu/scholarship/100296
3. https://www.dashforcenews.com/new-asu-blockchain-lab-research-shows-dash-can-easily-scale-near-paypal-levels/
4. https://www.dashforcenews.com/dash-labs-making-significant-progress-on-enhancing-robustness-of-dash-network/

Horizen Academy
Only in beta version for now.
Links:
(1) Horizen Academy (Beta version): https://academy.horizen.global/
(2) Announcement on the Horizen's blogsite: https://blog.zencash.com/horizen-launches-horizen-academy/

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Six topics, at three levels (from Beginner, Advanced, to Expert).

Some other sources:
Coindesk.com's information page
Lopp.net
Bitcoin.org (from basics to advanced)
Binance Academy
Andreas M. Antonopoulos:

• Mastering Bitcoin
• Antonopoulos' Youtube channel

       BTC Bitcoin Q&A (200 videos)
        BTC Bitcoin for beginners (33 videos)

Bitcoin Wiki
5 Resources to teach Average Joe about Bitcoin.
Why Everyone Missed the Most Important Invention in the Last 500 Years
[BEGINNER FRIENDLY GUIDE] Launch your own TOKEN in a few simple steps!

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Acknowledgements:

I got some of these courses from these users, so I would like to give them deeply thanks.
1) iasenko
2) qwizzie


Notes:
I have plan to keep the topic be updated and I highly appreciate all your help with links to other courses which I have not shown in my topic.