The University of Nicosia announced its long-expected new NFT-Metaverse Course! And just as its Introduction to Digital Currencies and its Introduction to Defi, this course too, is FREE to attend!
INTRODUCTION TO NFTs AND THE METAVERSE
An open introductory course to NFTs and the Metaverse, delivered on-chain and in the metaverse.
Learn More: https://www.unic.ac.cy/openmetaverse/mooc-nfts-metaverse/#starter
Course instructors
This is a part where we start to see the uniqueness and innovation of the UNIC! Prof George Giaglis is instructor of the course with ... Punk6529! If this name rings a bell, you most probably read about him in the past or maybe even follow him on twitter. He is among the world's collectors, investors but also thought-leaders in the NFT space and is building a decentralized Metaverse, which include an NFT museum.
Classroom
The classroom will take place in virtual auditoriums inside Open Metaverse.
Guest Lecturers
I spotted some very important names of the space that will be joining the courses as guest lecturers.
(Check out more here https://www.unic.ac.cy/openmetaverse/mooc-nfts-metaverse/#starter)
Course Outline
Course Outline
The course starts the week of October 3rd and ends the week of December 19th. It will take place over 12 weeks, and every week will corresponds to a specific theme.
There will be asynchronous access but also a weekly live session with the instructor where the students can also solve any queries they have.
Weekly summary of topics
BLOC-711: INTRODUCTION TO NFTs AND THE METAVERSE
Week 1 (Oct 3) - What is an NFT?
Week 2 (Oct 10) - Copyright and Provenance in NFTs
Week 3 (Oct 17) - Introduction to PFPs
Week 4 (Oct 24) - Art NFTs (CryptoArt, NFTs)
Week 5 (Oct 31) - Art NFTs (Generative Art)
Week 6 (Nov 7) - Key considerations in the NFT space
Week 7 (Nov 14) - Introduction to Gaming NFTs
Week 8 (Nov 21) - What is a metaverse?
Week 9 (Nov 28) - Trends in visualization technology
Week 10 (Dec 5) - Financing models in the NFT and Metaverse space
Week 11 (Dec 12) - Representing off-chain objects with NFTs
Week 12 (Dec 19) - Metaverse 2030: Long-term technology stacks for the metaverse and digital society
(More information and technical details can be found in the official website)
Course Pricing
The course is 100% free to attend.
However the students need to mint an NFT to enroll, and they need to pay for the ETH gas fees.
I paid appx $1,53 (enrolled on the 20th of August)
Please note
Participants who want an official UNIC certificate of completion as an on-chain NFT, including them passing or failing, can do so at the end of the course by minting one at a cost of 0.25 ETH (plus gas).
Bonus - Starter's course
If you are very new to this space and would like to have a more formal education, feel free to apply to the starters course here where you ll get to learn
- What is ETH, ERC-20, ERC-721, ERC-1155
- How to set up Metamask
- How to set up a Trezor hardware wallet
- How to transfer ETH
- How to use Etherscan
- How to use UniSwap
- How to buy an NFT, sell an NFT, mint an NFT (someone else’s drop) and how to mint an NFT of their own
This 1 week course starts September 12nd
Final Thoughts
I am very much looking forward for this course, even though autumn shall be difficult because I also plan to enroll at the new 'hands on' DeFi Lab course
Till now I see that more than 5000 persons have minted the NFT to enroll to the NFT course and it is not even 24 hours since it has been announced!
I invite you to check out their recent twitter thread where they explain everything and present their course
https://twitter.com/unicmetaverse/status/1560707446997393409
- unicmetaverse
Even if you do not plan to use the certificate, the experience of a Metaverse course will be a unique one!
See you in class?