The Open Campus Protocol is a decentralized solution for educators, content creators, parents, students, and co-publishers designed to address the major challenges in education today. Despite the critical role of educators in shaping the future generation, they are often undervalued and underpaid. Additionally, parents frequently lack control over their children's educational content.
At its core, the Open Campus Protocol is a community-driven initiative that harnesses the power of blockchain technology to create a fairer education system. By decentralizing the creation and distribution of educational content, the Open Campus Protocol empowers students to access more diverse educational content while providing educators with new opportunities to earn revenue and gain recognition for their contributions. The ultimate goal of the Open Campus Protocol is to revolutionize the US$5 trillion Education industry by returning control to educators and learners.
The Open Campus Protocol employs the $EDU token, a fungible token that powers the Open Campus Protocol. The $EDU token facilitates novel forms of collaboration, incentivizes high-quality content creation, and promotes the long-term growth of the protocol. Designed with educators and learners at the forefront, the Open Campus Protocol aims to foster a thriving, inclusive ecosystem through the $EDU token.
The Open Campus Protocol aspires to forge a vibrant, collaborative ecosystem that unites educators, learners, publishers, and co-publishers, drawing upon its distinguished launch partners' education and web3 expertise. With a strong emphasis on fostering synergy among these dynamic community members, the Open Campus Protocol empowers them to create, develop, and share valuable educational content that not only addresses learners' diverse needs but also fuels the sustained growth and evolution of the ecosystem. In this thriving environment, innovation, creativity, and knowledge-sharing are celebrated and nurtured, fostering a brighter future for education.
Open Campus Protocol harnesses the power of blockchain technology to revolutionize the traditional education system. The protocol fosters an ecosystem that rewards quality and innovation by enabling direct community support for meaningful educational content. This empowers individuals to shape the future of education and challenges the status quo, ultimately delivering a more diverse, accessible, and dynamic learning experience for all.
- Digital rights and participation: Tokenizing education content as Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) enables a broader community to participate in alternative, decentralized education. Teachers can access new funding sources by selling co-publishing rights to their educational content, benefiting from the new partnerships.
- Independence: Decentralization allows users to operate independently, creating, curating, and consuming educational content that matters to them.
- Permanent and transparent learning records: Blockchain technology ensures that certificates and qualifications are easily verifiable through an immutable record. The immutable record provided by blockchain means that all certificates and qualifications are easily verifiable.
- Platform-agnostic and user-owned: Blockchain-based assets create opportunities for partnerships with various platforms, enabling creators to share content more broadly across a range of distribution channels and ensuring that users retain ownership of their work.
Figure: 1.2: Open Campus Protocol underlying pillars
Digital property rights in the form of Publisher NFTs:
- The Open Campus Protocol fundamentally believes in digital property rights, which empower content creators to maintain ownership of their intellectual property (IP) and monetize their content based on its performance. The foundation of this community-owned educational system is the Publisher NFT. Each Publisher NFT grants the owner the right to market, promote, and earn a portion of the revenue generated by the owner’s promotional efforts of the educational content. Content creators have the flexibility to determine the portion of their content's revenue they wish to sell. By leveraging Publisher NFTs, the Open Campus Protocol fosters an environment where creators can benefit from their work while retaining control over their IP.The Open Campus Protocol fundamentally believes in digital property rights, which empower content creators to maintain ownership of their intellectual property (IP) and monetize their content based on its performance. The foundation of this community-owned educational system is the Publisher NFT. Each Publisher NFT grants the owner the right to market, promote, and earn a portion of the revenue generated by the owner’s promotional efforts of the educational content. Content creators have the flexibility to determine the portion of their content's revenue they wish to sell. By leveraging Publisher NFTs, the Open Campus Protocol fosters an environment where creators can benefit from their work while retaining control over their IP.
Publisher NFT Marketplace:
- Content creators or the Creator Collective can create Publisher NFTs, which are then available for purchase by co-publishers via a marketplace. Co-publishers are responsible for promoting the content, and in return, they receive a percentage of the revenues generated by subscriptions to the content. This revenue is shared among content creators, co-publishers, and partner platforms. It's important to note that while KYC is not required to purchase a Publisher NFT, co-publishers must satisfy KYC through Blockpass before receipt of any share of the revenue from the owner’s promotional efforts. Publisher NFTs may not be available to users in certain jurisdictionsContent creators or the Creator Collective can create Publisher NFTs, which are then available for purchase by co-publishers via a marketplace. Co-publishers are responsible for promoting the content, and in return, they receive a percentage of the revenues generated by subscriptions to the content. This revenue is shared among content creators, co-publishers, and partner platforms. It's important to note that while KYC is not required to purchase a Publisher NFT, co-publishers must satisfy KYC through Blockpass before receipt of any share of the revenue from the owner’s promotional efforts. Publisher NFTs may not be available to users in certain jurisdictions
Crowd-sourced curricula:
- To facilitate the transition of web2 users to web3 and harness the power of the Open Campus Protocol community, the platform enables content creators (individuals or publishers) to launch educational curricula by offering co-publishing rights to supporters through Publisher NFTs. Partners, content creators, and co-publishers collaborate to promote the content, with each party earning revenue based on their contributions.To facilitate the transition of web2 users to web3 and harness the power of the Open Campus Protocol community, the platform enables content creators (individuals or publishers) to launch educational curricula by offering co-publishing rights to supporters through Publisher NFTs. Partners, content creators, and co-publishers collaborate to promote the content, with each party earning revenue based on their contributions.