Public Crypto BLOG: ODEM.IO - Powering Higher Education Using Blockchain Technology

Human in the past decades has developed to a smarter living being than others, the one most factor that affect us to an advance civilization is an Educations. Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. Educational methods include storytelling, discussion, teaching, training, and directed research.

Online learning platforms have long promised to disrupt current models of education, but rather than compete outright with traditional institutions like colleges and universities, they are more likely to be folded into standard curricula. While schools like Harvard and Stanford offer free online classes, an increasing number of institutions will look for ways to economize their teaching structure. American universities are already facing a time of unprecedented change, when standard cost-cutting measures combined with tuition fees are no longer sufficient to control costs.

Education is a global industry. Worldwide expenditures rose to an estimated $6 trillion in 2016, with spending on higher learning forecasted to rise eight percent this year to $2.05 trillion. Combine by the advance of technology we have, we discovered the blockchain that can makes our technologies more great in the future for our education technology.

The Education Market Problems are :

Lack of Access to Quality Higher Education (Institutional Barriers)

Students are hampered in their quest for knowledge by rigid controls on enrollment, course prerequisites and other many requirements.

Financial Barriers (Exponential Increases in Tuition Costs)

Rising tuition costs and disadvantages of geography is complicate the process.

Geographic & Societal Barriers

The emergence of online teaching systems has drawn attention to the limits of what students can get from the online education experience.

The ODEM platform has been made possible by the emergence of cutting-edge blockchain technology that allows qualified and trusted members of the education industry to create customized curriculum and experiences and offer them directly to the market.

Using the power of blockchain technology and its smart contract-based payment platform, ODEM will enable students and professors to interact directly and participate in the exchange of education and learning, without the involvement of intermediaries. Our goal is to make quality education more accessible and affordable to a broader audiences.

ODEM is not an online education platform. To address the inherent weaknesses of online learning, we combine a real-world classroom learning experience with the agility and flexibility of the best parts of online education. The ODEM model will create an integrated platform where all types of students and student representatives can create and request services for education programs.

The ODEM platform further provides students with more choices for housing, transportation and other necessities. It allows international and local students to take ownership of their education. ODEM will facilitate live, in-classroom experiences, supported by online capabilities.

ODEM platform benefits :

One-stop shopping for education products and services
Top quality and professionally curated educational content from Ivy League and beyond
Reduced customer costs through the removal of unnecessary intermediaries
Streamlined negotiation and resource fulfillment through the use of smart contracts
Instant and frictionless cross-border payments using ODEM Tokens
Guaranteed trust every step of the way with all points of negotiation and product delivery captured on the blockchain