Oxford in March

Blockchain experts to convene at Oxford this March

20 December 2022 — The Immersive Education Initiative today officially announced that the next Blockchain in Education Summit will be a special event held from 28 to 30 March in conjunction with the 2023 Digital Civilisation conference in collaboration with University College Oxford Blockchain Research Centre.

Select speakers from the 2022 Blockchain in Education Summit held in Lucerne, Switzerland, earlier this year will be joined by Digital Civilisation speakers and international experts in the field of blockchain technology for a new 3-day series of public talks and workshops at Oriel College, University of Oxford, focused on the impact of blockchain technology on education and our global society.

Topics to be addressed at Oxford include: 1) Publishing and protecting student (learner) data on public blockchains, 2) Scaling to handle "millions to billions" of learners, 3) Learner authentication and anti-fraud measures using blockchain platforms, 4) Backup and recovery of critical blockchain data and contents, 5) Blockchain data analytics and visualization, and other topics related to utilizing blockchain technology in the fields of education, teaching, and training, 6) Designing blockchain platforms and applications, and 7) Digital civilisation in the context of open-source software.

How to Participate

The prestigious academic and technical conferences are open to the public:

• SPEAKERS: Speakers, researchers, teachers, trainers, students, exhibitors, sponsors and other individuals interested in speaking, presenting or exhibiting at the conference are invited to review previous Blockchain in Education Summit and Digital Civilisation events and then sign up for the forthcoming Call for Participation (CFP).


• ATTENDEES: If you are interested in attending the conference please review Blockchain in Education Summit and Digital Civilisation events and then sign up for the forthcoming Call for Participation (CFP).

World-renowned Speakers

Speakers at Immersive Education events have included faculty, researchers, staff, administrators and professionals from Harvard University (Harvard Graduate School of Education, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, and Harvard Kennedy School of Government), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MIT Media Lab, The Smithsonian Institution, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), United States Department of Education, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States Department of the Interior (DOI) National Park Service (NPS), United States National Portrait Gallery (NPG), Federation of American Scientists (FAS), Stanford University, Cornell University, Boston College, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), University of Southern California (USC), Columbia University Teachers College (TC), University of Maryland (UMD), Duke University, Amherst College, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Twitter, Disney, Oracle, Computerworld, University of Oxford, Italian Ministry of Education National Institute for Documentation, Innovation and Educational Research (INDIRE), the Louvre Museum and Palace of Versailles, Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), Sorbonne University (France), Keio University (Japan), Nippon TV (Japan), National University of Singapore (NUS), Government of New South Wales (Australia), Israel Ministry of Education MOFET Institute (Israel), University of Glasgow (UK), European Learning Industry Group (ELIG), Università degli Studi di Padova (University of Padua, Italy), University of Zurich (Switzerland), Trinity College (Ireland), University of Barcelona (Spain), Italian National Research Council (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain), and many more world-class organizations detailed at https://summit.ImmersiveEducation.org

PRESS CONTACT

Annelise Martson
Immersive Education Initiative
https://ImmersiveEducation.org
annelise.martson@ImmersiveEducation.org

Millions of Learners Worldwide

Immersive Education Initiative, the world's foremost experts in immersion and immersive technology, is a non-profit international collaboration of educational institutions, research institutes, museums, consortia and companies. The Initiative was established in 2005 with the mission to define and develop standards, best practices, technology platforms, training and education programs, and communities of support for virtual worlds, virtual reality, augmented and mixed reality, simulations, game-based learning and training systems, immersive teaching and immersive learning platforms, and fully immersive environments such as caves and domes.

Thousands of faculty, researchers, staff and administrators are members of the Immersive Education Initiative, who together service millions of academic and corporate learners worldwide.

Collaborators and Summit speakers include faculty, researchers, graduate students, and executives from the world's leading academic and cultural organizations, universities, and companies, such as United Nations, United States Department of Education, Harvard University, University of Oxford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), The Smithsonian Institution, Stanford University, NASA, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Twitter, Disney, Oracle, Computerworld, Italian Ministry of Education, the Louvre Museum and Palace of Versailles, Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), Sorbonne University (France), Keio University (Japan), Nippon TV (Japan), National University of Singapore (NUS), Government of New South Wales (Australia), Israel Ministry of Education, University of Glasgow (UK), European Learning Industry Group (ELIG), Università degli Studi di Padova (University of Padua, Italy), University of Zurich (Switzerland), Trinity College (Ireland), University of Barcelona (Spain), Italian National Research Council (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain), and many more world-class organizations

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