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Blockchain diplomas land in Virginia at ECPI
Jacob Demmitt, The Roanoke Times, 2018/11/26

 It was only a matter of time. "Virginia Beach-based ECPI University has joined a group of early adopters that distribute student degrees through the same kind of decentralized computer networks that power Bitcoin... The concept behind the technology is virtually unchanged, except ECPI is using the blockchain to issue digital degrees instead of digital currencies." The plan does have a definite upside: "It’s on there for life. They never have to call the registrar’s office and order another diploma."

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Do we really need all of this 'mentoring' malarkey’?
Donald Clark, Donald Clark Plan B, 2018/11/26

I'm not so quick to call mentoring "malarkey" as Donald Clark, but I share some of his scepticism. Like Clark, I never had a mentor (and would probably have pushed back against one if I had). And I would definitely echo this: "It is your life and career, so don’t for one minute imagine that the HR department has the solutions you need." Having said that, I think I'm much less inclined to criticize mentoring than Clark. If people are more comfortable with, and prefer the guidance of, a single person, then that seems perfectly fine with me. I think I'd want to see envidence that it's harmful before I criticized them.

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A Way to Raise money for Education Technology
Terry Freedman, ICT & Computing in Education, 2018/11/26

I'm still waiting for the day when the Air Force needs to run bake sales to fund its operations. This, I guess, is the modern equivalent of those bake sales." Rocket Fund is a crowdfunding platform for schools. Rocket Fund modernises school fundraising, empowering schools to raise money from businesses and their community more efficiently." You know what's an even more efficient way to raise money from business and community? Taxes.

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