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Re: Metacademy

#11

Post by klapinat0r »

How is "x hours to learn" measured? If I search for logistic regression, I get this page: http://www.metacademy.org/graphs/concepts/logistic_regressio... stating 1.7 hours - is that the estimated time to work through "Core resources", the "read" time + video length or something else?

Really exciting project, and very useful to me personally.

This is what wikiveristy should've been.

Good job guys.

Re: Metacademy

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Post by edwardio »

klapinat0r wrote: post #11

How is "x hours to learn" measured? If I search for logistic regression, I get this page: http://www.metacademy.org/graphs/concepts/logistic_regressio... stating 1.7 hours - is that the estimated time to work through "Core resources", the "read" time + video length or something else? Really exciting project, and very useful to me personally. This is what wikiveristy should've been. Good job guys.

If you look on the left, the learning plan shows that it would take 22 hours to complete from the bottom up. Logistic regression page just assumes you know all prior knowledge.

Re: Metacademy

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Post by danra »

Metacademy looks like a great source for learning, one which preserves most of the associativity benefit of learning through e.g. wikipedia, but which allows for much more focus.

Thank you so much for doing this!

Re: Metacademy

#16

Post by pranavpiyush »

This deserves to exist and flourish. We built something similar (skilldom.org) but it hasn't yet deserved the love it should have... :) partly due to me not being disciplined enough to dedicate time to it.

Re: Metacademy

#17

Post by Link- »

IMHO, the dependency graph is pure gold! I think it should be the core focus of this project as it will be quite difficult to aggregate, clean and present all the needed information about a given topic (unless we're rebuilding wikipedia). It will be easier to link to credible resources available across the web through the dependency graph. Maintenance wise it would be much more interesting not to mention easier.

Re: Metacademy

#18

Post by michaelochurch »

This is really cool. I wish I could give it more upvotes than the one I gave it.

Thanks for building something cool and useful. I love the idea and hope you develop it more.

Re: Metacademy

#19

Post by dbpokorny »

rogergrosse wrote: post #4

Co-creator of Metacademy here. Colorado and I are intending Metacademy to be a “package manager for knowledge,” where you can easily find the particular thing you want to learn about (e.g. deep neural nets) without having to track down all the prerequisites (e.g. gradient descent) yourself. Basically, we’ve annotated a dependency graph for the core concepts in the field, and it uses the graph to produce step-by-step…

This is great, but it could be so much more. For example, you could split the project in 2 (or perhaps simply clone it) with the other half working on the K-12 market.

You see, this would be the ideal learning tool for a teacher-student tutoring situation: by looking for the precise point where a student becomes stuck, it is then possible to see what skill-set or knowledge area needs more work and practice, and then adjust the lesson plan accordingly.

Metacademy is of course the natural place for such a "market" in education products to form.

Re: Metacademy

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Post by tinco »

paufernandez wrote: post #13

Nice! This is the first time I've seen the dependency graph implemented in e-learning! Actually I started a programming site in spanish a while ago with the same idea (there is a dependency graph underlying the content). If you are curious: http://www.minidosis.org .

Doesn't the Khan Academy use dependency graphs? I had some fu Ngoing through highschool calculus on their site. Raking in the achievements and unlocking next lessons.
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