{"id":55914,"date":"2019-08-29T11:25:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T09:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/?p=55914"},"modified":"2019-08-29T11:25:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T09:25:25","slug":"crypto-in-classrooms-28-of-top-50-universities-have-blockchain-courses-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/crypto-in-classrooms-28-of-top-50-universities-have-blockchain-courses-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto in Classrooms: 28 of Top 50 Universities Have Blockchain Courses Available"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Despite the opinions of some<\/a> who consider crypto to be a detriment to the world, younger generations are certainly idealistic on the place of blockchain technologies in the future of society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Wednesday, Coinbase<\/a> published the 2019 version of its annual study looking at the world\u2019s top 50 universities and their facilitation of crypto education. According to the exchange\u2019s findings, 28 (56%) of the world\u2019s top 50 universities offer at least one course on cryptocurrency or blockchain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2018, Coinbase\u2019 report found 21 of the 50 universities to offer crypto or blockchain courses, marking a significant yearly increase. At the same time, Coinbase\u2019 survey twice as many students reported having taken such a course than in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of top universities was derived from US News\u2019 ranking<\/a> of best global universities, which consists of universities in the US, UK, Canada, Switzerland, Australia, France, and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the focus was also placed on overall student interest in crypto, with Coinbase finding data through it\u2019s partner, Qriously:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alongside the 6% jump in students interested in learning about crypto, Interest in learning about blockchain and \u201csocial justice\u201d rose from 13% to 20%. Student interest in learning about \u201csecurity\u201d and \u201cfuture applications and growth\u201d both declined in the past year, from 37% to 29% and from 31% to 27%. Behind the numbers is a growing desire for blockchain applications in the benefits of crypto, rather than regulation or blockchain\u2019s clearly demonstrated potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The survey of 735 US students aged 16 or older, showed that two-thirds of students consider the present financial system to be \u201cunstable,\u201d \u201cinefficient,\u201d \u201cunequal,\u201d or \u201cslow-moving.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cesare Fracassi, a University of Texas computer science professor surveyed by Coinbase had the following remarks on the change in student opinion:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Definitely, some of the students interested in this topic are ones who feel mistrustful of the current banking system, so they want to create an alternative system where the decision-making process isn\u2019t centralized. Those are the more idealistic ones. Others are maybe a little more pragmatic, and interested in ways this technology can be used to improve companies\u2019 performance and efficiency.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite the opinions of some who consider crypto to be a detriment to the world, younger generations are certainly idealistic on the place of blockchain technologies in the future of society. On Wednesday, Coinbase published the 2019 version of its annual study looking at the world\u2019s top 50 universities and their facilitation of crypto education. According to the exchange\u2019s findings, 28 (56%) of the world\u2019s top 50 universities offer at least one course on cryptocurrency or blockchain. In 2018, Coinbase\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":18856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[826],"tags":[4896,130,980,7279],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}