Yet another EdTech endeavour?!

Yes, there are many experiments going on right now in the web2 and web3 edu-space (Synthesis, Primer, Curious Cardinals, Gurucool.xyz, Questbook, _buildspace, RabbitHole, Studygram, and so on...).

But they are all targeting a different kind of an audience - which is highly overlapping. None of them solves for open schooling, crypto credentials, free learning, and incentive design in a holistic manner for all the contributors involved.

Enter DeSchool

Learners and teachers have limited time to learn and teach. They get tired of playing two different games - the traditional school/university/certificates game AND these emerging edu-games. Let's play one unified, holistic, positive-sum game where everybody wins.

"a DeSchooled society would be a society in which everyone shall have the widest and freest possible choice to learn whatever he wants to learn, whether in school or in some altogether different way." - John Holt

We want to build something different...

We're interested in building the base-layer platform upon which a few affordances are built in:

  1. Teachers are incentivized to share their expertise and teach well.
  2. Students don't enter immeasurable debt for the privilege to learn.
  3. Learning actions & outcomes are recorded on chain, creating a network of learning paths.
  4. Shadow work by friends/peers/caretakers/parents in educating each other is accounted for.
  5. Employers/DAOs are able to match these skills with available projects and people.

We believe in a few key things:

  1. Education should be a free public good.
  2. Teachers should get paid because they are highly undervalued.
  3. Students should get verifiable credentials they can resharpen and use for life.
  4. Work is a natural extension of learning and happens throughout life. "Learning on the job" should be treated the same as learning in a university (and credentialized similarly).
  5. Educational costs shouldn't be a major bottleneck for parents/caretakers/guardians in making life decisions.
  6. Web3 and the state of internet tech makes alternative education/schooling feasible.