ABSTRACT

Vision

KIP Protocol, the official AI Partner for Open Campus, is proposing to develop, launch and operate Open Campus U (“OCU”). OCU is an AI-powered education platform powered by the new EDU Chain.

We envision Open Campus U to become a Coursera-like learning platform with a diverse range of educational content, but with the heavy use of AI features like chatbot tutors, AI powered Apps, as well as decentralised KnowledgeKeys (vector databases containing academic content, curriculum and knowledge of teachers that created the course.)

For more information about KIP Protocol, see Appendix 1: About KIP Protocol.

There are over 23,000 Universities with approx. 254 million students and millions of teachers, the vast majority have yet to be onboarded to web3. Colleges and Universities are amongst the most important foundations for entrepreneurship and economic development globally.

The use cases of AI in education are extremely obvious and significant. From areas serving students like adaptive learning, personalised feedback, to technologies helping educators like intelligent tutoring, automated grading, AI will make a huge impact on tertiary education.

OCU will be akin to Coursera on AI-steroids, integrating the most accessible and useful of AI features to immediately add efficiencies to the education process. Coupled with blockchain enabled transparency and verifiability, features like on-chain education credentials become natural and powerful extensions.

OCU’s go-to-market strategy will be B2B2C, under which our aim is to onboard university professors, academics and educators and publish their courses onto OCU. They will endorse OCU as a recommended learning medium to bring their students to use OCU in their studies. Ultimately our goal is to onboard these students onto Open Campus/EDU Chain as well.

The onboarding of their educational materials and knowledge bases will extend the influence of the Open Campus ecosystem into tertiary education and academic research. At the same time the educators will be able to monetise their courses through OCU’s AI powered edtech features.

In addition to the adoption of $EDU and the new EDU chain, we believe that the OCU will unlock opportunities for the Open Campus community to extend its influence to tertiary level scientific and research content.

Focus Areas

Working closely with Open Campus, we propose to expand the influence and reach of the Open Campus ecosystem into tertiary education and academic research through the following areas of work:

1. Technical: Developing Advanced AI Features for OCU + Maintaining Day to Day functionality
2. Business: Running the business operations of OCU, with the primary objective of onboarding leading professors & academics
3. Branding: Rapidly build up the brand trust of OCU, OC and OCID through the involvement of professors from recognised universities from around the world

We will use our AI and blockchain features empowering true ownership as a leap-frog strategy over existing Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) providers.

Goals

Our primary business targets are to onboard the following into OCU within 18-24 months:

1. At least 400 professors, educators and researchers; and
2. At least 900 curated tertiary level courses from the educators mentioned previously, which will be made available to students to learn; and
3. At least 1,000,000 new Open Campus ID learners

Establishing the OCU Committee

We also propose to establish the OCU Committee, comprising prominent academics and Open Campus’ community members & strategic partners. This Committee will supervise the work of KIP in OCU operations, while also serving as ambassadors, introducers as well as vetters for any other new applicants.

MOTIVATION

KIP Protocol’s mission is to catalyse the decentralisation of AI. We believe the best way to achieve that is via the creation of viable business ecosystems within actors in AI acting in a decentralised way.

To this goal, we have developed multiple prize winning technological innovations including our KnowledgeFi monetisation framework, and our decentralised Retrieval Augmented Generation (d/RAG) data orchestration framework.

We share Open Campus’s vision of a decentralised future in education and believe that AI + Web3 is a force multiplier in education. However, more work needs to be done to ensure that use of AI tools do not fundamentally threaten the ownership of our knowledge in the AI-powered future.

Education, especially tertiary education, is a business area we are very familiar with, and extremely passionate about. Our past clients in AI include institutions (and professors from) Kings College London, National University of Singapore, Hong Kong University, Seoul National University, Adam Smith Institute etc.

We are also AI partners of a leading academic and education publisher that serves hundreds of universities around the world.

Our work with these leading organisations belies our firm belief in that Education is an area where AI will create the greatest impact for society. Indeed, we are already seeing rapid adoption of AI tools by tertiary students.

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