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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Blockchain Business Models by Duke University

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About the Course

Blockchain is an emerging and highly disruptive technology that is poorly understood. In this course you will learn what blockchain is and how it can create value by tokenization in cryptocurrencies and in many other practical applications. The applications include: stablecoins (like Facebook’s Libra and JP Morgan’s JPMCoin), machine to machine payments, identity protection, supply chain management (Walmart, Maersk, IBM), secure voting, distributed exchanges, decentralized finance, property transfers, central bank fiat crypto (e.g., Fedcoin and China’s digital Renminbi), dispensing prescription drugs, private records, intellectual property, financial reporting, and media and advertising, to name a few. The goals of the course are to: (i) provide an advanced understanding of the various blockchain technologies; (ii) determine the specific business situations where blockchain technology can be deployed to solve important problems; (iii) select the specific blockchain technology that has the best chance of success for a particular problem; and (iv) detail the risks presented by this new technology....

Top reviews

SI

Oct 24, 2021

This course is really a good start to understand basic of blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Since the course is quite old, after finish this course, I would recommend to study more in other resources.

RA

May 18, 2022

This is a very detailed course for someone enough curious to start the Blockchain path. This content quality is very good and the information is transmited on a very effecient and profecient way.

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By Deleted A

Nov 19, 2020

It definitely triggered some interest in a new (for me) area!

Some of the explanations could have been a bit clearer, but it is still worthwhile to take the course.

What I did miss is the interaction in the discussion forums. Which is a contributing factor for not going for the full specialization, although most of it because I have previous experience...

By Ganesh A

Jul 16, 2020

The course provides a great insight into the Blockchain technology and different popular blockchain technologies available in the market. It also provides an overview on how the world will evolve with the increased use of Blockchain and scope for different business models etc. It is good course to venture into blockcha

By Kamal U

Feb 3, 2023

The content seems a little outdated because there has been a lot of progress made in the blockchain and cryptocurrency arena which is not covered in this course. Other than that the instructor and the course is wonderful.

By Peter R

Jan 13, 2022

Great course, plenty of information. I recommend to have a small idea on blockchain before taking this course because they allocate too little time for the basics

By Ajay Y

Aug 31, 2020

As the title says it should have more emphasized on the business and doing it real world , but it is still a good course to understand the blockchain.

By JAZMÍN U B

Jul 1, 2022

would have liked to have references of free platforms where I can try to develop or try blockchain

By Jayashree R

Jan 7, 2021

good course to understand the various technical aspects related to Blockchain

By AVIJIT J

Oct 27, 2023

Very good learning.

By TOLA L

Apr 16, 2022

Good course

By Guillaume R

Mar 11, 2022

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By Charles P

Jul 16, 2022

This was supposed to be an intermediate course that focused on blockchain business models, but instead, focused mainly on such general blockchain information that was very unspecific to the subject it was supposed to be about. As someone already very knowledgeable about BTC, ETH, and how blockchain tech works, less than 20% of this course was new, useful information. I wanted to do a deep dive on the industry use cases but that was only a fraction of this course and did not go into real depth. Quite disappointed. The Duke courses on decentralized finance were way better.

By damon p

Mar 5, 2021

Instructor spoke too slowly. I solved that by using 1.5 speed. Also, the working of the tests were poor. I had to retake three of eight tests multiple times to pass, simply because the test question descriptions didn't match the instructor description of the materials at times. I retook three tests at least three times each. That's not me failing tests, that's these tests were not well done.

By Anuj G

Sep 23, 2020

The course was very well taught. However, the course content can be improved further by including more about implentation examples and challenges in businesses such as supply chain management. Also, the focus on regulatory laws can be reduced because they are highly country specific.

By Jurgen P

Apr 18, 2021

Somewhat too US-centric towards the end. But otherwise great stuff!

By mohamed a

Nov 15, 2022

Good syllabus. The lecturer communicates clearly in terms of phonetics. He should improve on his explanation of contents including the key concepts.

By vikrant b

Aug 9, 2020

I am having acute difficulty in the Week 2 Qiz #1 (Questions 3/5 &7...tried 5 times , need help !

By Alvaro M

Feb 5, 2021

Terrible course, it has absolutely nothing to do with the scope of the specialization (finance and strategy). The course goes entirely in boring, unintelligible and useless technicalities and computer concepts together with explaining the operation of programs and algorithms being suitable for a specialization in computer subjects but not for a program with a focus on finance and strategy. Duke must solve this type of errors since it puts its prestige at stake, it should eliminate this course from the specialization, or change the focus, lessons, tests and content towards a more practical and useful profile (show examples of practical uses of the technology and the potential business it can generate).

By Torsten G

Jul 14, 2022

major problems in the grade section. some quizzes, tests or exams did NOT have a clear answer!! moreover a true/false question turned out wrong in both attempts - one time the answer true one time the answer false . please test and consider reconfiguration.

By John T

May 11, 2021

A largely incoherent mess. This course belabours many easy to grasp concepts in a scattergun approach but then airdrops references to irrelevant and complex notions. Its nether well thought out nor well targeted to any particular audience.