Project Description
E-LERN Introduction (name subject to change)
An online learning platform that provides blockchain development courses and interactive coding challenges to train the future developers of tomorrow.
E-LERN offers:
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comprehensive learning materials,
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coding challenges,
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student developer community,
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and a gamified e-learning experience that rewards student progress with digital assets as they navigate through course curriculums.
Motivation & Demand
The request of the community
Since the opening of the Devera ICON curriculum in 2019, the ICON community has constantly requested and expressed interest in learning from the program themselves by gaining access to Devera’s learning materials. Operating the program has been a learning experience for not only the students but for our team as well building an entire blockchain educational program from scratch. Now we have arrived at a point where our team feels more confident in availing the courses to the global blockchain and ICON community.
Cross-over appeal
Courses will be aimed at general blockchain technology to appeal and bring all potential developers to the platform for educational and certification purposes. With special focus on ICON this creates opportunities where those new developers can then be naturally exposed to development using ICON protocols and features while mastering their blockchain education. Additionally, other than general blockchain technology, this platform is able to serve as a library for ICX holders, P-Reps and ICON dApp developers interested in advancing their ICON knowledge specifically.
Sharing of learnt knowledge
Some of you may know that the ICONDAO team has spent the year working with ICON Foundation and ICONLoop to build the core technology underlying ICON 2.0 - BTP and the BTP dashboard. Using the experience of operating an ICON P-Rep team intimately involved in its network development, and the information gained in the 2 years of running ICON courses, seminars and workshops at Vietnam National University, our team is capable of curating and building an online learning platform that will allow any developer to begin contributing solutions for ICON network and the blockchain industry at large.
E-LERN Courses
E-LERN offers a wide range of IT disciplines that cover and complement blockchain technology; through Devera our team has already created curriculums for Mobile Development, Web Development, ICON Blockchain Development as ready-to-onboard courses and venturing into subjects such as Metaverse, Blockchain Game Development etc. The intention of expanding progressively to meet demand and reflect the changing industry.
In addition to learning materials, E-LERN’s lessons plans provide coding challenges for students to practice coding realtime that tests and grades their work progress.
E-LERN NFTs
A Gamified Learning Experience That Preempts A New ICON Battle Game
Planet GENNEX, home to humanoid species NEXII, is the interplanetary hub for all alien life forms. Diverse in its makeup, NEXII from all walks of life, culture and robotic enhancements, populate the small planet, forming it into a rich multifaceted ecosystem. For honor, opportunities and, most importantly, sweet ICX, NEXII take part in realtime battles in arenas against each other. This is a to-be-announced standalone game where holders of NEXII from the Planet GENNEX collection may bet and battle one-on-one in winner takes all tournaments. More information to be released post E-LERN launch
Using E-LERN To Learn and Gain PEXII NFTs
Within the Planet GENNEX world exists PEXII, animal companions to NEXII. The PEXII Collection is a collection of 10,000 generative animal-based pieces that are able to be unlocked by users as they progress in their education on the E-LERN platform. At the end of coding challenges and quizzes that test their progress, Users earn the individual Traits of a PEXII like pieces of a puzzle to be completed. These Traits can then be collected, assembled, and with the right combination unlock its respective PEXII NFT from the PEXII collection.
Why NFTs?
After research proved that online courses have a low retention rate of 5%, our team chose to reward the progress of students to incentivize continuous learning. Rather than simply gifting students cryptocurrency, we wanted to create a system that uniquely gamifies and tokenizes their learning experience and motivates them to work towards long-term goals rather than short-term yields.
Benefits
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easy entry into NFT market for students to immediately immerse themselves in blockchain technology
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earning revenue by trading unlocked NFTs
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encourages students to work towards long goals rather than fast money
What Cryptozombies did for Loom. But more?
In other words, our platform takes Loom’s popular learning platform, CryptoZombies, to the next level. Cryptozombie users were able to be naturally introduced to building on Loom network and seeing their progress grow with their zombies enhanced. Our platform improves on this model by actually allowing users to gain the characters they built through their progress. Using this method on this ICON equivalent platform, users from all across the blockchain spectrum get the chance to not only learn but trade and directly take part in an NFT economy based on ICON Network (with potential to expand to other spaces using BTP.)
E-LERN Forum
Discussion board and community for students to:
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bounce ideas,
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get help and hints on lessons,
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discuss their progress,
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chat
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trade their Devera NFTs.
and otherwise grow together as developers.
E-LERN Target Market
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Devera students,
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online users interested in learning blockchain technology,
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professionals interested in changing careers,
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NFT enthusiasts looking to gain, buy and trade generative art in NFT marketplaces.
Milestones & Budget
Month 1
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Planning
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UX Design
Month 2
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UI Design
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Development
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Content Creation
Month 3
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Development
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Content Creation
Month 4
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Test
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Deploy
We anticipate with adequate resource allocation, we can expect a full launch within 4 months. To achieve this in such a short time, we will be expending a great deal of human resources on app development and content creation for the courses, the budget of which is $121,000USD.
For transparency on the budget breakdown and timeline please visit: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aKNxGfQ24RjYSokyDb9KbFuQP4u9XLP5vko85IoRgiQ/edit#gid=0
The team
This project will be developed by the ICONDAO the p-rep development team leading the BTP Working Group and involved in prominent ICON projects such as BTP Nexus Dashboard, Optimus and BalancedDAO, among others.
Looking forward to hearing any thoughts or suggestions on the project. Thank you for your time.
