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exspiravit | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +5 
 I worked in private education. Every time I think about it I want to puke. 

When I moved into management it became clear what my bosses wanted from me: exploit my staff, exploit my students 

I’ve had a dream a while ago, a protocol that would handle the communication (and much more) between people like yourself and all the people you might want to interact with for your wish to become true. Basically, a network that would empower the people who feel the drive to teach.
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exspiravit | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 I was allowed to spend around 20-25% of what the student spent on my teaching staff. Yet, the amount of money flowing out of the school back to HQ was around 30-35%.  🤮🤮🤮
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CappyNate🍁 | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Ya these university empires are not it. Spend more money on fancy buildings than program efficiency.

Similar thoughts to yours. A type of collaborative platform. Open sources ish. But contributors compensated. Like 80% of the info is already out there. It's just a matter of packaging it into a program with a bow on it.

But there's also tricky concepts to the user.

So as the user navigates through the program, they could vote on how easy each concept is. If it's hard, contributors could see this frustration in their portal, and brainstorm ways to explain it simpler. Then go back and paste in that simplification (either text, video, graphic; media agnostic).

The easiest to understand explanation shows to the user as the primary, so the path of least resistance to enlightenment occurs. And the contributor gets compensated for viewership. Rewarding good simple explanations.

Also, attacking learning painpoints like this en-masse reduces the dependance on expensive 1-on-1 tutoring. It provides the path of least resistance to knowledge. User experience, applied to education.
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Free Spirit | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Decentralised home education fixes this.