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Re: Show HN: Learnawesome.org – Open-source learning map for humanity

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Post by mathnmusic »

kerkeslager wrote: post #28
mathnmusic wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Check how underlay.org is trying to build a really granular graph of claims and assertions. Building something similar for skills is what LearnAwesome is interested in. I'm not sure if a "tree" is the right data-structure. See this article called "The Spiral Approach to Thinking & Learning": https://learnawesome.org/items/1ef5ff78-7c37-4f5d-bbdd-1cd0b... For this spiral approach, I think, for every skill we could hav…

Frankly, I would love to see either of these ideas (skill dependencies, or spiral approach) implemented in code, in a way where I can look at the materials and see how I'm going to travel through it. In anything you've linked here, I feel overwhelmed as a student. I get that, in the spiral approach, the starting point isn't so important, but if I don't know where to start, it's much easier for the teacher to pick for…

GitHub is down currently. But we're discussing the personalization aspect on one of our issues. We want to recommend learning paths which take into account users' background (what they already know), constraints (what formats are best for them) and goals (what do they want to achieve).

Please do join our Slack for these ideas, even if, you can't contribute code.

Re: Show HN: Learnawesome.org – Open-source learning map for humanity

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Post by mathnmusic »

mathnmusic wrote: post #2

Clickable link: https://learnawesome.org Code repositories for: - Web application: https://github.com/learn-awesome/learn (license is AGPL 3.0) - Browser extension: https://github.com/learn-awesome/webextension It cleverly generates a question/answer pair from a simple text selection from your Web reading: https://medium.com/learn-awesome/practice-what-you-learn-usi... - Reusable flashcard practice widget: https://gi…

One of the features HN users might like: On a book's page, you will also find links to summaries others have written, or author's podcasts/TED Talks etc - all in one place. Example: https://learnawesome.org/items/5c731d15-6a53-432e-82e4-a4de9...

For this to work, I imported links to summaries from sources like sivers.org, blas.com, fourminutebooks.com, sipreads.com etc. Will need help from users in making this dataset even better.

Re: Show HN: Learnawesome.org – Open-source learning map for humanity

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Post by biolurker1 »

mathnmusic wrote: post #4
wizzwizz4 wrote: post #3

If knowledge has dependencies on other knowledge, you could represent that (a la package managers). If something's general enough, you could have multiple virtual packages teaching it.

Yes, the topic/knowledge taxonomy is an important part of it. There are ideas from ConceptNets to Faceted classification. For now, I have taken a pragmatic call to have maximum two parent topics for every topic node here. This allows me to show the hierarchy here: https://learnawesome.org/topics This taxonomy design is being discussed here: https://github.com/learn-awesome/learn/issues/14 Feel free to suggest better…

That sounds like you need to partner up with academia

Re: Show HN: Learnawesome.org – Open-source learning map for humanity

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Post by jbotz »

Looks pretty good, but when you call it a map it makes me think that it would make the connections between topics, i.e. show the sequence you need to follow to learn things, what are the pre-requisistes for each topic, etc. I don't see that on learnawesome... or am I missing something?

Re: Show HN: Learnawesome.org – Open-source learning map for humanity

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Post by mathnmusic »

jbotz wrote: post #34

Looks pretty good, but when you call it a map it makes me think that it would make the connections between topics, i.e. show the sequence you need to follow to learn things, what are the pre-requisistes for each topic, etc. I don't see that on learnawesome... or am I missing something?

See the discussion on this related issue: https://github.com/learn-awesome/learn/issues/14

Re: Show HN: Learnawesome.org – Open-source learning map for humanity

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Post by leifross »

mathnmusic wrote: post #19
bloudermilk wrote: post #14

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I've been thinking a lot on knowledge classification systems lately. It's surprisingly challenging to find the right balance between flexibility/comprehensiveness and simplicity/rigidity. Have you documented your research on this topic anywhere beyond that GitHub issue? I'd love to learn more about the strategies you considered.

I haven't written about it, but happy to have a conversation on this. For eg: check how underlay.org is trying to build a really granular graph of claims and assertions.

Me and my girlfriend is building something similar, but targeting a different niche, a personal non-collaborative knowledge tree. Would love to connect and share ideas if you are up for it! https://ember.ly

Re: Show HN: Learnawesome.org – Open-source learning map for humanity

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Post by mathnmusic »

leifross wrote: post #36
mathnmusic wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I haven't written about it, but happy to have a conversation on this. For eg: check how underlay.org is trying to build a really granular graph of claims and assertions.

Me and my girlfriend is building something similar, but targeting a different niche, a personal non-collaborative knowledge tree. Would love to connect and share ideas if you are up for it! https://ember.ly

Yes, it looks like we can learn from each other. Check this from our issue board: https://github.com/learn-awesome/learn/issues/79#issuecommen...

Drop me an email at team AT website, please ?

Re: Show HN: Learnawesome.org – Open-source learning map for humanity

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Post by akinhwan »

I'm curious as to how you're developing the matching algorithm or recommendation system between learning material and students? I'm trying to do the same but for socially isolated seniors and programs/resources/interventions. Seems that all the examples online are of cases like Amazon, Netflix, or Pandora.

Re: Show HN: Learnawesome.org – Open-source learning map for humanity

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Post by leifross »

mathnmusic wrote: post #37
leifross wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Me and my girlfriend is building something similar, but targeting a different niche, a personal non-collaborative knowledge tree. Would love to connect and share ideas if you are up for it! https://ember.ly

Yes, it looks like we can learn from each other. Check this from our issue board: https://github.com/learn-awesome/learn/issues/79#issuecommen... Drop me an email at team AT website, please ?

Awesome, sent you an email, cheers!

Re: Show HN: Learnawesome.org – Open-source learning map for humanity

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Post by mekarpeles »

wizzwizz4 wrote: post #3

If knowledge has dependencies on other knowledge, you could represent that (a la package managers). If something's general enough, you could have multiple virtual packages teaching it.

See also https://metacademy.org, one of the most inspiring knowledge package managers I've seen prototyped.
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