Updated Bitcoin Diploma curriculum with new open-source methodology launched, according to the El Salvador-based Bitcoin education effort Mi Primer Bitcoin.As El Salvador became the first nation to use Bitcoin as legal cash in 2021, Mi Primer Bitcoin got its start as a neighborhood educational project.
This latest version of the program was created in partnership with global Bitcoin enthusiasts and educators to offer a thorough curriculum that covers every facet of the cryptocurrency, from its background to its everyday uses and technical operations.The most significant change was making the program open-source, which entails that all resources, including the Student Workbook, are publicly accessible on GitHub.The release states that this is intended to promote cooperation and translation efforts across national boundaries.
The founder and executive director of Mi Primer Bitcoin, John Dennehy, highlighted how Bitcoin education has the ability to change lives.He emphasized the ways in which long-term planning, creativity, and innovation are encouraged by financial literacy in the Bitcoin era.
Dennehy described this curriculum upgrade as a “significant step” toward the project’s goal of “empowering the world through Bitcoin education” in a comment to Cointelegraph.
“We always strive to improve the content with each new edition, but alongside that, we have also built out much better infrastructure to allow people to best use this in their local context — for example, translations had been ad hoc, now there is an organized infrastructure for communication and best practice guidelines.”
He added that 26 translations of the previous diploma had already been completed, and that the current one will be translated into nine languages in a year.Since the project’s start, more than 25,000 students in El Salvador have received the previous diploma, which has resulted in multiple graduation celebrations.
In order to integrate Bitcoin into the El Salvadorian public school curriculum by 2024, Mi Primer Bitcoin teamed up with the Ministry of Education in September 2023.Mi Primer Bitcoin began in El Salvador and has since collaborated with governments and educational institutions around the world.A collaboration between Bitcoin Cuba and the program to educate local people about Bitcoin was also announced last fall.