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Any topic on earth.. how ambitious!! I’m assuming your team is not qualified to review the map for every topic on earth. So, how do you plan on crowd-sourcing

by evv 9y ago

Any topic on earth.. how ambitious!! I’m assuming your team is not qualified to review the map for every topic on earth. So, how do you plan on crowd-sourcing the review process? How does it compare with Wikipedia? If I were a qualified reviewer for a given topic, why would I spend my time reviewing this mind map in comparison to Wikipedia, which would arguably be a better use of my time?

nikivi 9y ago
The difference between Wikipedia and Learn Anything is that Wikipedia focuses on the content. It gives a great overview of the topic and all the related topics. However Wikipedia is just one resource you can use to learn a topic. More often than not, there is a very great course or YouTube videos or articles you can read and watch to learn the topic more in depth. That's the problem we want to solve. We want to minimise the time you spend 'finding resources' and 'things to learn' and we want to visualise the entire learning process so you can explore and learn the content progressively similar to Khan Academy only instead cover all topics. The actual learning will still be done outside the website. The website only acts as a gateway to most effective resources as chosen by the community. As for reviewing resources being added. You are right that we can't manually review every single one and that poses a great challenge as our focus with the website is to present the most effective resources for learning which not necessarily are most 'popular'. The voting system we will have in place will be similar to Reddit in that more 'upvoted' resources will surface to the top. Another thing we need to check is that the resources being added are actually related to the topic where they were added. One solution to solve this, would be to allow to flag resources that are inappropriate. These are all quite challenging and I think interesting problems and there are really only 2 people working at the project currently and we really hope to bring more people into the project to help share ideas and help with solving some of these problems. Everything is Open Source and is built with React. Hope that answers your question.

by evv 9y ago

nikivi 9y ago

The difference between Wikipedia and Learn Anything is that Wikipedia focuses on the content. It gives a great overview of the topic and all the related topics. However Wikipedia is just one resource you can use to learn a topic. More often than not, there is a very great course or YouTube videos or articles you can read and watch to learn the topic more in depth. That's the problem we want to solve. We want to minimise the time you spend 'finding resources' and 'things to learn' and we want to visualise the entire learning process so you can explore and learn the content progressively similar to Khan Academy only instead cover all topics. The actual learning will still be done outside the website. The website only acts as a gateway to most effective resources as chosen by the community. As for reviewing resources being added. You are right that we can't manually review every single one and that poses a great challenge as our focus with the website is to present the most effective resources for learning which not necessarily are most 'popular'. The voting system we will have in place will be similar to Reddit in that more 'upvoted' resources will surface to the top. Another thing we need to check is that the resources being added are actually related to the topic where they were added. One solution to solve this, would be to allow to flag resources that are inappropriate. These are all quite challenging and I think interesting problems and there are really only 2 people working at the project currently and we really hope to bring more people into the project to help share ideas and help with solving some of these problems. Everything is Open Source and is built with React. Hope that answers your question.