Decentralized Education? Is such a thing possible?

[boymilk]

College is expensive. College degrees are expensive. Education could always be subverted for political and/or religious goals. Could we create a peer-to-peer decentralized education system? There would have to be a way of storing and transmitting courses and course materials. You would also need a way to distribute and verify certifications, degrees, mark tests, etc.

[bluefirecorp]

Check out Coursera.

Recently watched a TED talk about scaling education -- how universities are trying to make the cost of a class the same (rather it's 10 students in the class or 10000000 students). This way, they can offer the class to thousands of students at a very, very reduced cost.


Personally, I'm attending WGU. It's a pay-per-semester university rather than pay-per-course. So, the harder you work at it, the more value you get from it.

[YBC]

It's the way forward: one excellent lecturer giving a lesson as opposed to hundreds of average ones around the country.

[zangokoon]

i don't think p2p is good on everything.

[BurtW]

It's the way forward: one excellent lecturer giving a lesson as opposed to hundreds of average ones around the country.

Haven't you just described a very centralized education system?

[Lethn]

It's called the internet stupid and it already exists, go do some google searching on what decentralisation actually is.

Yes, you won't get a degree out of searching on the internet, but I have found far more information and learning tools on here than I ever did staying in school, you need to go to the deep web beyond the first to pages of google to find the really good stuff because it's inevitable that the good stuff will get ignored. In fact, me and my family found my two teachers through the internet just with some careful searching and I ended up finding Bitcoin as well.

It all just depends on how much trust you're really willing to put in a piece of paper with a government department's stamp on it.

[HappyMod]

I think you'll really like DISCIPLINA.
They actually want to store educational achievements, as well as verify them.
It's not completely p2p, but it's decentralized, and aims to bring a few solutions regarding education and recruitment actually.

You should take a look at it and let me know what you think!

[HelperAdvisorsLLP]

I will be really happy if such thing happens!