October 2020
Intermediate to advanced
276 pages
6h 42m
English
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Appendix A. Teacher’s Guide
When we do guest lectures on blockchain at schools and universities, professors often tell us the same thing: by the time they’ve developed a curriculum to teach a class about blockchain, the technology has totally changed. We designed Blockchain Success Stories to be enduring examples that you can teach using the case study method.
If you’re new to case studies, we can do no better than pointing you to Harvard Business School’s excellent website, “Teaching by the Case Method.”1 HBS case studies are the gold standard, and we worked hard to make the case studies in this book meet that level of rigor and quality, while adding our own special sauce.
Here are a few blockchain-specific tips that we’ve found helpful from observing other instructors teach about this technology:
- Be a fellow learner
- The most successful blockchain professors are also blockchain students. Consider opening the session by asking a student to summarize the case in front of the class, while the instructor literally sits in a student’s seat. Blockchain technology evolves so quickly that no one has all the answers. Approach it as a lifelong learner.
- Prepare thoroughly
- In addition to reading the case, study up on where the blockchain project is today, thinking deeply about larger principles from these stories that can be applied to other companies and blockchains. The chicken-or-egg problem from Helium (Chapter 4), for example, could be used to discuss any number of two-sided internet ...
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