Be part of the Education revolution

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2. MOX. EDUCATION
Open Source Project
Founder:
George Papa
Phone: ​+49 160 95112252
gpapa@papapm.com
Ahoy CoWorking
Wattstraße 11, 13355
Berlin, Germany
Contributors:
Goutham Rao
Vladimir Osokin
Miha Sukic
Kiran Lakhotia
Michael Geyder
Uwa Okonkwo
Pavel Mihailovskiy
Vitaliy Kovtun
Zach Colon
Tim Kleier
http://mox.education/
Berlin, February 2018
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3. INTRODUCTION
The only worldwide Education Project which has had the biggest impact on our Society so far, has been Wikipedia. In January 2001 Wikipedia
was founded and 17 years later nothing has really changed since it went online. It looks and functions exactly the same way as it did 17 years ago.
In 2010, myself and some friends started thinking about new concepts on how to organize the World knowledge. What would be a good system
to share knowledge with millions of other people? How can I customize knowledge in such a way that it reflects my needs. People learn in
different ways. Some prefer text, some images and others videos, mind maps etc.
Knowledge nowadays is spread chaotically all over the World Wide Web and it makes it very difficult to find it and make sense of it. We spend
countless hours organising knowledge in Windows folders, cloud drives, browser folders etc.
For many years, after countless hours of developing and shredding many concepts, we finally managed to develop a Concept that we believe will
be the next step in the Education worldwide. A Concept of how a Digital Library of the Future can be. This Concept is as easy to use as building
with Lego Blocks. After years of testing it with different age groups, we are ready to take the next steps and develop the full concept with all its
necessary features. By the way, MOX stands for Made of X. A Knowledge Block is Made of X (number) of other Blocks (explained later).
THE FOUNDER
George Papa has lived and worked in 13 countries (Germany, Albania, USA,
Rwanda, Ireland, Haiti, Australia, Burundi, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Kosovo, UK,
South Africa). He studied Architecture in Dresden, Germany and specialised some
years later in Project Management. George has founded startups, has failed and
succeeded, was rich and poor, depressed and full of optimism, got married at 18,
became father at 19, has 4 kids, divorced after 20 years marriage, wanted to take
his life but settled a court case against a huge company. Worked as interpreter for
the German Criminal Bureau of Investigation but managed to keep his sanity. He
wrote some books. Survived the civil war in South Sudan. Got Malaria in Rwanda
but escaped Hepatitis E in the refugee camps of Ethiopia. He has had it all. Good
and bad. Is crazy enough to think he can have a big impact on this world. This is
him on LinkedIn: ​https://www.linkedin.com/in/george-papa/
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4. BE A CONTRIBUTOR
IMAGINE! One day, all people on the planet use MOX to exchange knowledge and your NAME is listed as one of the contributors to this
amazing project. Beside the gratitude and fame you will receive for working on such a nobel project, we will give you a Certificate for your
contribution and the best among you will be invited to work with us in Berlin, Germany. This is how the Certificate YOU will receive will look
like:
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5. THE CONCEPT
Every person has Knowledge in some form or another. This knowledge can be broken into the simplest fact (we call it block). For example H
stands in Chemistry for Hydrogen, O for Oxygen etc. Different people know different facts. They put each fact in a box we call Block.
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6. There are always people out there who know more then you do in your field or another. New Knowledge always builds on top of already existing
Knowledge. The problem we have is how do we find the people who have what we need and how do we link their knowledge to ours. Let us
continue with the example above and assume we met two other people who knew a bit more and they put our Blocks together and created a new
Block with more information in it. Before I only knew what Hydrogen is and now I know what Water is. And what Gypsum is.
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7. Facts alone are not enough to give us a picture of the Knowledge we want to gain. We need to know how this facts are related to each other. We
need a logical system behind it that connects the facts in useful knowledge. Knowing that a car has a body, engine, wheels and seats is not going
to be enough to help you build a car because you need to know how they relate to each other and in what order you should start building. In our
Concept this characteristic is called a Knowledge Map.
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8. What we explained above with some very simple facts from the Chemistry field, can be applied to any Knowledge Field in the World. For more
complex knowledge. For example from the Construction Field. We have 4 engineers who have extensive knowledge about sand, gravel, water
and cement.
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9. Then we have a fifth and sixth person who have extended knowledge on the combinations of those Knowledge Blocks. It takes over 2000
Engineers to design an Aeroplane. They all are specialised in different fields. In our example we have the Concrete Engineers.
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10. And behind the mixing of Concrete there are different systems or processes. A Map on how the Knowledge Blocks relate to each other. The
Knowledge Block concept is based on the same pattern like the Human brain works. The human being collects bits of informations / facts and it
arranges it in a system that makes sense to that person's brain. This is the reason this Concept is so intuitive because it imitates your brain.
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11. THE PROTOTYPE
MOX Concept is already fully developed and it has been tested as a concept. It works! The current Prototype lacks 2 major features, is very slow
and has many bugs. It can not handle heavy traffic. It is already online under: ​http://mox.education/​. Several coders have helped so far. But to
develop the full Prototype with the most important basic features, a lot more work is needed. The code for the project is Open Source on GitHub
under: ​ttps://github.com/moxeducation/MOX.Education​. In the next pages I will explain what a fully functional Website should look like:
This is what a Knowledge Block looks like. It contains only one Media (video, pdf, image, text, website)
A Linked Knowledge Block contains other Blocks created by the User or Blocks created by other Users.
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12. FRONT PAGE
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13. KNOWLEDGE BLOCK PREVIEW
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14. KNOWLEDGE BLOCK CREATION - Family House Example - Title Block
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19. USER'S OWN BLOCK
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20. OTHER USER´S BLOCKS
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21. USER PROFILE
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22. THIS IS IT! - ​WE NEED YOU TO MAKE THIS VISION A REALITY
HOW ​YOU​ CAN HELP?​ If you are a JavaScript coder and you would like to have an impact on this crazy world of ours, contact us!
If you know people in the Education field, connect us with them. If you want to get to know us, we would be happy to go for a drink with you.
If you want to donate to our cause so we can pay coders to build the website, we have a Foundation.
Thank you for building the Future with us!
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23. TELL US WHO YOU ARE
Now that you want to be part of the Education Revolution we would like to know a bit more about you, your skills and your motivations. We
want to work for a long time together, this is why we want to make sure we all can be friends in the end and make the world a better place
together. We are working hard till late at night as you can see in the image below but we still need you...We need your help!!!
- If you would like to help us in this project as a team you already are part of, send us an email and tell us about your team, your skills and
your motivations.
- If you would like to join but you have no team, don't worry, we will find a team for you.
- Please tell us about the work you have done so far so we
know which role we have for you
- We will have a Skype call with you and get to know you
personally.
- Email us: ​gpapa@papapm.com
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SUPPORTING ORGANISATIONS
Leonidas Network Foundation was founded in 2013 in Berlin, Germany by Andre Jasch (Journalist) and George Papa (Architect) to support
Education projects worldwide.
Ahoy Coworking is one of the first co-working spaces to open in Berlin, Germany. Since its beginning it has contributed significantly to the
development of the Startup and Tech scene in Berlin.
IC Team is a staff recruiting and staff education company founded in 1991 in Bavaria, Germany. It has over 1500 employees and over 20 offices
in Germany and is planning to expand abroad as well.
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