Aragon Nest Proposal: Education Platform

Abstract

Before being great contributors on a project (with ideas, code, design or everything), on the begin they were newbies. I believe DAOs aren't just for team working, but also for studies; study is the basic thing before growing on their works and lead to knowledge.

Coding, human language (native and english as the most important), UX/UI design, security, and other things are needed before being a skilled contributor; but if we want to democratize the work, we need to offer an educational platform alongside it.

Note: I don't have skills to make it working, but to propose it; then you're free to begin implementing it on a pull request and receive your grants.

Deliverables

1. An aragonOS-compatible application (the educational platform) that lets people create courses, learn on those courses, gets tasks/achievements, be awarded with open badges (or also monetary incentives) and share knowledge with other students

Tasks

• Vote to create an course
• DAO will give tokens for who create and update courses
• Courses can include videos, but needs to have text also, as it is basic
• Course's text can be available in lots of languages, and their videos can support SRT subtitles
• DAO can update the course, but updates needs to be versioned (courses can use pando) and course's users needs to be aware of those updates to update their knowledge - uploading new languages/localization will be also considered as updates, and will be versioned)
• Courses from an DAO can be used on other DAOs (the DAO that created the course can earn tokens from its use)
• Other DAOs can propose updates to the course of the original DAO
• Courses haves basic info: basic skills needed, hours/time of learning, etc.
• Course's community, to share knowledge (don't make it able to share the answers)
• Course's homework/tasks (and open badge achievements for completing them)
• Courses can haves a start/finish time and study classes/groups
• Courses can have an live teacher, that will be rated by students and granted with tokens
• Live teachers can send their own homework/tasks, and create their own open badges
• API to give advanced features for courses (english course can have words to pick, coding courses can have a CodePen-like sandbox for playing)
• When user completes each module on the course, the user earns open badges (or also tokens) for each module
• When completing the course, user is awarded with an open badge (or also tokens)
• Users can post a feedback about the course after completing it
• Referral: if user earns tokens for completing modules/course, its referrer earns a share of it
• Achievement Open Badge for referrer: each time an referral completes a module/course, he earns a badge about it (also depends on the Open Badges app)

Grant size

Funding: from $100k up to $150k in ETH, split into chunks paid out over achieved deliverables.

Success reward: Up to $100k in ANT, given out when all deliverables are ready.

Application requirements

• Details of the team members, alongside with their willingness in terms of implication
• Estimated average burn rate for completing the deliverables
• Legal structure to be adopted, if any

Development timeline

To be discussed or to be proposed by the team requesting funds.