Topic: Learnoverse - Build crypto skills with courses, data, certificates, and degrees (Read 45 times)

BitDegree is world’s first blockchain-powered, smart-incentives based online education platform
which will revolutionize global education and tech recruiting. The main purpose of the BitDegree
platform is to let Students acquire skills that are currently required by the labor market. The way to do
it is not to ask business what skills they need in the far future (3-5 years), but to respond to explicitly
expressed skilled labor demand quickly. BitDegree will directly align the incentives of students and
anyone who wants them to become knowledge workers in digital economy - like current or potential
employers, digital service providers and sponsors. Smart-incentive is a smart contract on Ethereum
network ensuring the exchange of tokens between a sponsor (the Incentive Creator) and a student
(the Incentive Taker), who is committing to study a specific subject in order to receive tokens (the
Incentive). The BitDegree platform will offer students online courses with a clear and transparent
blockchain-based reward system and achievement tracking. Our use case for blockchain is not
sensitive to prolonged waiting periods before transactions are committed, thus, overall platform
overhead (as in expenses) of using Ethereum network for transactional and immutable data storage
needs, will be low. To make the learning process as exciting as playing Minecraft we will use Octalysis
framework of gamification design.

We see BitDegree as a unique tool for business to recruit tech talent and shape global education to its
needs through smart-incentives. National government Job centers will be able to track the demand of
skills without having to involve scrupulous report gatherings from businesses and also help jobless
citizens by subsidising studies for skills on high demand. Think about it as Coursera and HackerRank
merged together, powered by blockchain technology. The main benefit of BitDegree platform to
incentive providers is the possibility to initiate and maintain dialogue with upcoming talent and
reward them for achievements through smart-incentives. Smart-incentives on the BitDegree platform
will range from small to large and be location and topic targeted. From the student’s perspective, it
means getting paid to learn new skills based on local demand, which not only incentivizes but can
actually be a viable escape from unskilled work.