Quick, Quality Courses for Blockchain and Space Fundamentals

Technical Architect

One of the reasons I like the project is the caliber of the founding team. They are driven, well-credentialed, and bring accomplished domain experience.

The project aims to be open to anybody, so I thought a good idea would be for those of us lacking domain experience to get up to speed on the fundamentals and the language. Here are some free courses from some very well respected Universities all over the world.

These courses are all 100% free, online, and time efficient, with many lectures broken down into 15-25 minute increments that can be squeezed into spare time.

I'm halfway through the Princeton Bitcoin classes and highly enjoying it, and alot of technical lightbulbs are clicking.

Add any class links you might find helpful.

Space

Introduction to Aerospace Engineering: Astronautics and Human Spaceflight

Spaceflight is exciting, and you don’t have to be a “Rocket Scientist” to share in the excitement! 16.00x makes the basics of spaceflight accessible to everyone.

https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-aerospace-engineering-mitx-16-00x-1

The Conquest of Space: Space Exploration and Rocket Science

Explore the history of space travel and learn the basics of aerospace engineering.

https://www.edx.org/course/the-conquest-of-space-space-exploration-and-rocket-science

Space Mission Design and Operations

Learn the concepts used in the design of space missions, manned or unmanned, and operations, based on the professional experience of the lecturer.

https://www.edx.org/course/space-mission-design-and-operations-0

Blockchain

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies

To really understand what is special about Bitcoin, we need to understand how it works at a technical level.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/cryptocurrency

Blockchain for Business - An Introduction to Hyperledger Technologies

A primer to blockchain and distributed ledger technologies. Learn how to start building blockchain applications with Hyperledger frameworks.

https://www.edx.org/course/blockchain-business-introduction-linuxfoundationx-lfs171x

IBM Blockchain Foundation for Developers

The first part of this course covers basic concepts of blockchain, and no programming skills are required.

If you're a software developer and new to blockchain, this is the course for you. Several experienced IBM blockchain developer advocates will lead you through a series of videos that describe high-level concepts, components, and strategies on building blockchain business networks.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/ibm-blockchain-essentials-for-developers

Emerging Technology

Industry 4.0: How to Revolutionize your Business

An introduction to the fourth industrial revolution, it's major systems and technologies and how new products and services will impact business and society.

https://www.edx.org/course/industry-4-0-how-revolutionize-business-hkpolyux-i4-0x

New Technologies for Business Leaders

From Blockchain over Artificial Intelligence to Virtual Reality technologies: This course will empower business leaders to bring the state of the art information technologies into their organizations to improve client and customer engagement and ultimately the bottom line of their businesses.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/new-technologies-business-leaders

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Giulio Prisco

Co-Founder, Space Cooperative

Thanks Derek, this is most useful. Free (or cheap) quality online education like the Coursera and EdX courses can create an army of citizen scientists and engineers for the space frontier.

Suzana Bianco

Space Architect

Derek, what a great post!
I have actually taken this one before: The Conquest of Space: Space Exploration and Rocket Science, on EDX. It gives a nice overview of the history of spaceflight, and basic rocketry and orbital dynamics!

Yalda Mousavinia

Co-Founder, Space Cooperative

At some point, our platform will have a wiki! This is great material for the initial Getting Started / Knowledge Portal! Thanks for putting this together.

Kevin Russell

Simulation Innovation Strategist

In a related group we've been looking at X-Wiki https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome

Jason Stone

Software Development/Government Design

Thanks for this post. I was looking for something like this!

Marc M. Cohen

Founder of Space Architecture as a Discipline

Check out this Visual Guide to Blockchain from Reuters. It's hitting the main stream.

https://graphics.reuters.com/TECHNOLOGY-BLOCKCHAIN/010070P11GN/index.html

Marc M. Cohen

Founder of Space Architecture as a Discipline

SPACE EDUCATION COURSES

Since Derek started posting some ideas about space fundamentals education, I am placing some curricula in the files box at the bottom of this page.

Ethan Scott

If there were no humor, life would be tragic.

Blockchain
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies

To really understand what is special about Bitcoin, we need to understand how it works at a technical level.

Blockchain for Business - An Introduction to Hyperledger Technologies

A primer to blockchain and distributed ledger technologies. Learn how to start building blockchain applications with Hyperledger frameworks.

IBM Blockchain Foundation for Developers

The first part of this course covers basic concepts of blockchain, and no programming skills are required.

If you're a software developer and new to blockchain tutorial, this is the course for you. Several experienced IBM blockchain developer advocates will lead you through a series of videos that describe high-level concepts, components, and strategies on building blockchain business networks.

In my case, I took a few classes of blockchain just to get an understanding of how the world of cryptocurrency works. I found the concept extremely fascinating and that tempted me to learn blockchain.

Suresh Dasari

Founder of Tutlane.com

Thanks for the article. Good sources to learn online.