Blockchain Micro-Learning Platform to Help Students Earn as They Learn

A new blockchain platform by an established company in the educational sector is going to enable users to earn crypto tokens as they learn - all the while making lessons exciting and ensuring billions of people around the world have access to talented instructors.

Code of Talent's team say they want to address multiple failings in the industry which have seen learners become disengaged in boring, generic and uninteractive classrooms.

This also has huge ramifications for students attempting to enter the world of work or those seeking to change careers, as a disconnect between the theory they have learned and the skills they desperately need affects their employability and leaves employers struggling to fill vacant positions for skilled jobs.

Micro-learning: A powerful method?According to Code of Talent, micro-learning is the solution that instructors, learners and employers deserve.

This technique involves daily learning sessions which are 10 minutes in length, in a virtual environment where there is a maximum of 40 participants per educator.

This is partially because learning in chunks of between three and seven minutes better reflects the brain's working memory and attention span.

Exciting key features for learners include the ability to engage in sessions from any device - with milestones, levels, missions, points and badges gamifying their experience and making it easy for them to track their progress in real time.

According to the start-up's white paper, Ascendis currently serves 550 corporate customers and 45,000 face-to-face learners on an annual basis - resulting in a turnover of €7 mln in 2017.

Code of Talent has also established a strategic partnership with Ideologiq, a European digital innovation agency.

The first version of the Code of Talent blockchain micro-learning platform is scheduled to launch at the start of 2019, and the company hopes to attract 300,000 learners, 2,000 active educators and 2,000 micro-learning courses by the second quarter of 2020.