Exploring the Use of NFTs in Open Education for Sustainable Development, Creativity and Innovation

Explorer l'utilisation des NFTs dans l'éducation ouverte pour le développement durable, la créativité et l'innovation

Erica Hargreave, Ahimsa Media / StoryToGo / BCIT

Track: Institutional technology/ Volet: La technologie institutionnelle

Type: One-hour Innovative Topic Discussion

With the growing hype, success and Cinderella stories around NFTs (non-fungible tokens) for creatives in 2021, it begs the question could NFTs poise a potential sustainable funding solution for open education and open culture? Could NFTs drive new creativity and innovation among educators and students? It is these questions that we will be exploring in this session, inspired by early research into NFTs as a solution for open education and open culture (https://storytogo.ca/2021/10/nft-non-fungible-tokens-a-sustainable-funding-solution-for-open-education-and-open-culture/), as well as on-going experiments with NFTs around some educational storytelling projects intended to raise funds, and build greater levels of engagement and community collaboration around these educational storytelling projects (https://storytogo.ca/2021/11/funding-documentary-storytelling-open-educational-resources-through-nft-collectibles-an-experiment/).

Building from there, in this session we will discuss the benefits and challenges that NFTs hold in education, as well as brainstorm ways that attendees can utilize NFTs in their work.

Learning objectives: In this session, we will: 

• learn what NFTs are 
• describe the history of NFTs 
• identify NFT success stories 
• discuss the benefits and evolving possibilities for NFTs in education 
• debate the challenges that NFTs poise in education 
• brainstorm ways of incorporating NFT in our educational initiatives