Open Source University is the World's Academic & Career Development Ledger in the process of making. It is to be empowering 7 billion learners to connect to world's top academic education and professional development opportunities on the Ethereum blockchain.
OS University provides a distributed platform to track and validate (in an immutable manner) individual academic and professional development achievements for learners throughout the world. Through the platform, learners are one reach away from the best educational offerings (thanks to the marketplace side of the solution) and one reach away from hiring businesses (thanks to the job matchmaking side of it).
By using smart contracts, we store all the certification, reflecting learning and development progress of the learners into the blockchain and give them access to education and professional opportunities, corresponding with their interests and achievements. Businesses on the other hand benefit by targeting the right candidates
Learning and development marketplace on the blockchain. Tokenized market between Businesses, Academia and Learners equipped with sophisticated matching algorithms excluding middleman. Providing all the necessary resources to every MOOC and academia striving to the feature when academic background will be transparent and traceable.
WHY BLOCKCHAIN Open Source University will revolutionize the way businesses, learners and academia communicate and benefit using Ethereum blockchain technology. Blockchain will bring trust and traceability of all certificates and degrees issues by academias (MOOCs, universities etc.) Businesses can benefit by matching the right candidates excluding third parties , saving time, money and fixing most of scalability issues related to lack of professionals.
THE MOST SECURE WAY TO STORE AND BENEFIT FROM YOUR ASSETS. Open Source University legally binds all assets to its own EDU Token. Owning EDU tokens means that you have the right to claim benefits and to use the platform. Tokens will be stored in your private wallets which needs to be ERC20 compliant. Small amount of EDU tokens will be distributed into the blockchain in order to boost the benefits by owning such kind of assets.
Senior Technology Executive, ICO Advisor, CryptoCurrency Enthusiast, Investor
Rated on May 14, 2018
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Vision / Product
- Nice project, anything making education global, and more efficient is a worthwhile initiative
Facets to explore:
- $26M Raise seems like a lot of money all up front for this specific project. Would have liked to see smaller phased milestone based raises
Team:
- Surrounded themselves with a large pool of advisors to lean on.
Facets to explore:
- Team seems tech heavy, but light on business experience.
- Would have liked to see a Finance person / CFO on the team for this amount of money
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ICO advisor | CIO | Blockchain Consultant | Early Crypto Investor
Rated on Feb 13, 2018
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Not really seeing the benefit of using blockchain (especially ethereum) for this project. Even after reading the PDF from the CTO, I am not convinced there is a real need to put all this data onchain.
The professional world in general also gravitates towards putting more emphasis on experience than education, and I dont see this trend stopping any time soon.
CEO of TimeBox | Serial Entrepreneur | Expert of Blockchain, Gaming, ICT Industry In Greater China and Northeast Asia
Rated on Feb 12, 2018
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Nothing is easy in education domain, so I always admire those who dedicate their passions for the domain no matter it is a biz or not. I believe that helping people for better career path development is good for human society! Good luck to your vision~
Great team, good vision, but that they will be competing with edX, udemy, and the likes, so that would be challenging. I see this as a project with a great vision, and I could've given it a higher product score if there's a platform already running.
FinTech & Marketing Consultant
Rated on Mar 5, 2018
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Pros:
+ Open-source platform
+ Strong team and advisors; great media coverage, prep. before the ICO
+- Good selection of relevant and comprehensive documents (see second point in cons)
Cons:
- No live demo
- No easily accessible one-click whitepaper CTA; the website is complicated - overcrowded with text, too much information (not a massive disadvantage, but the front page/landing page should be clear and concise) - even one-pager is over 700 words!
- Large competition in the education sector
This is not financial advice or a recommendation to invest in this or any other ICO. Investors must perform their own due diligence and not rely on external ratings to make their final investment decisions. ICOs are risky and 100% loss of capital is possible.
ICO advisor and Founder of Serendipity Blockchain Solutions
Rated on Jun 5, 2018
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Good team, but maybe leaning a bit too much to one side instead of being evenly balanced out on experience. The project will be facing some heavy competition. Additionally, I feel that the hard cap is too high - which makes the project less attractive for investors.
Will have to wait for a live product to see what happens.
Investor, Decentralized Economics Researcher, Crypto Visionary, FinTech Pro, Startup Mentor and Advisor
Rated on Mar 21, 2018
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Pros:
0. A good cause, has wide support.
1. Very comprehensive WP.
2. Aged project.
3. Growing community
Cons:
1. Fiancials and marketing strategy are not present. Education is a very competitive business, and missing market research and financial projections are raising concerns about the future of this whole project.
2. Token liquidity and valuation are not supported properly. There are some listing initiatives, but it is only conceptual in the WP. The token value strategy may be not built around the ICO investor' interests.
ICO Advisor, 50+ ICOs since 2016, Founder and Publisher of Blockchain News, partner Blockchain Partners, founder Cryptoassets Design Group
Rated on May 13, 2018
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Nothing built yet, promises of an alpha version in time for ICO in June. Who is actually on the core team? You have mixed advisors and team so it's not clear. Business Development and Marketing make up five short paragraphs in whitepaper.
Investor | Blockchain & ICO Advisor | Consultant
Rated on Jun 22, 2018
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Great idea around decentralized education and one of the best teams I've seen in a while. Solid vision too in my opinion! Hope that the project is very successful!
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