That's a good news. Educating general public about cryptos is nice idea to spread awareness.
It's not really the "general public"... it's a few select students at a couple of universities. That being said, another small step forward for bitcoin.
I think this will probably spur long term innovation in the bitcoin ecosystem. It will hopefully inspire people to somehow get involved in bitcoin, and potentially start new companies that have to do with bitcoin and/or create new technology related to bitcoin.