Possible future of the OSSU as a blockchain based online University (basically a DAO). about computer-science HOT 6 CLOSED

Some comments:

1. One of the primary difficulties with online testing is verifying the identity of the person taking the test. MOOC companies like Coursera and Udacity require you to take the test using a camera where you show your government-issued ID to confirm that it's actually you, and not you paying someone else to do it. In the US, many online self-study programs (NASM personal trainer certificates, for example) require you to go to a physical testing facility where they check your ID and then let you in to use a computer to take your test.
2. Multiple-choice SAT questions would be pretty terrible for university-level education; LinkedIn already does these types of assessments and they don't correlate very well with actual knowledge. It's possible ChatGPT could help here, but a proof-of-concept would be necessary.
3. I'd skip on point 6, it's a complication that I don't think adds any value. Instead you can just put the year of when they completed the course, and then let anybody evaluating the credential decide how useful it is. It works well enough for regular degree programs.
4. Point 7 is complicated because once you pay people you can't really consider them "volunteers" anymore, with all the messiness that comes from that. The first challenge is getting the money in the first place (we don't charge tuition, nor receive money from any government), then you have to deal with tax implications, money-laundering, etc. And also: the majority of people probably have no interest in getting paid in crypto.
5. The last thing is that this proposal would require significantly more labour to do it. OSSU volunteers are already stretched pretty thin simply maintaining the curriculum and moderating the Discord server, introducing all this extra load would be far more work than we'd be able to handle.

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Can we at least start with making Libre Books for our curriculum?
Something like Wikipedia, but in a Jupyter Notebook format?
Actually I saw Qiskit do it for Introductory Quantum Computing, and I was really fascinated by the idea.
We can perhaps maintain a GitHub repository of such books which are tailored to our curriculum.

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As pointed out by Robbrit:

this proposal would require significantly more labour to do it. OSSU volunteers are already stretched pretty thin simply maintaining the curriculum and moderating the Discord server, introducing all this extra load would be far more work than we'd be able to handle.

Closing this issue. Can be reopened when there is capacity to take on this work.

I think we can start with creating Creative Commons Jupyter Notebook Textbooks for the curriculum which are inspired by the popular textbooks. ChatGPT can help in my opinion..... I will try to do it, but I can only take this up after February 2024.

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@Mesum-Hussa
good

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We can use an AI system to verify the person taking test using camera on device

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As pointed out by Robbrit:

this proposal would require significantly more labour to do it. OSSU volunteers are already stretched pretty thin simply maintaining the curriculum and moderating the Discord server, introducing all this extra load would be far more work than we'd be able to handle.

Closing this issue. Can be reopened when there is capacity to take on this work.

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