Dive Brief:
- Monday saw the launch of The Immersive Education Initiative's Learn to Earn, a Bitcoin-fundable scholarship program being billed as the world's first.
- The grant will send 100 qualifying California teachers and students to the organization's IMMERSIVE 2014 conference in Los Angeles.
- Learn to Earn programming is divided into two categories: Professional Development, so teachers, students, and young entrepreneurs can attend conferences; and Intellectual Enrichment, rewarding those who complete tasks using various educational software.
Dive Insight:
The Immersive Education Initiative is a non-profit collaborative of international institutions, research institutes, museums, and more. At this weekend's IMMERSIVE2014 conference, more details about Learn to Earn will be released by the organization’s founder, Aaron E. Walsh.
According to the company's website, the upcoming summit will deal with, "the personal and cultural impact of digital technologies such as wearable computing (e.g., Google Glass and Oculus Rift), virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, neural interfaces, affective computing, neuro-gaming, 3D printing, personal robotics, Bitcoin and related cryptocurrencies, telepresence, virtual worlds, simulations, game-based learning and training systems, immersive MOOCs, and fully immersive environments such as caves and domes."
In others words, everything technology.
