Please describe your proposed solution.
How we perceive the problem
Groups and organizations in the Catalyst space need to know best practices on how to enable and enact community governance. We also need to test the effectiveness of Gimbalabs' new Andamio learning management platform specifically for governance-related learning materials, since so far it has been used only for more practical and experiential learning such as coding. Particularly, we need to test how Andamio's credentialling approaches work on governance-related learning.
Our solution
We propose to solve this by providing project-based learning (PBL) courses on Andamio on governance-related topics; enrolling learners; and collecting feedback.
Our PBL courses will cover governance topics such as decision-making, budget management, writing governance documents such as codes of conduct, using tokens to support governance, and documentation to support governance. Each PBL will take learners through a hands-on set of modules that will teach them governance principles using real-life projects, in order to learn, test, and reflect on different governance patterns and best practices.
Reasons for our approach
As Governance Guild, we have facilitated and participated in a number of groups in the Cardano and Catalyst communities and collectively learned many best practices and methods of organization and governance. Because of this, we are in a unique position to share our hard-won knowledge of what works, and share it with the community using the innovative Andamio project-based learning model.
What is unique about our solution, who it will benefit, and why this should be important to Cardano.
Each PBL (project-based learning) course we create will comprise basic onboarding materials to the course; building up of background knowledge so learners can discover the concepts and ideas around governance; specialization into specific best practices and patterns; and offering learners the opportunity to contribute back to the course and add their own unique knowledge and skills to further improve the course over time.
We will build these PBL courses on Andamio, an on-chain learning management system developed by Gimbalabs. This will allow us to both host and share the course materials, and also to issue completion certificates on-chain so students can demonstrate mastery of specific governance topics.
How does your proposed solution address the challenge and what benefits will this bring to the Cardano ecosystem?
By allowing developers to better understand and implement governance methods and patterns that are effective, this tool will help development projects move faster, be more collaborative, and achieve their goals faster and with greater cohesion and harmony between team members.
How do you intend to measure the success of your project?
- Number of developers and teams taking our courses
- Number of students who complete each course
- Qualitative course survey and feedback, including how confident learners feel in their new governance knowledge, and how effective they felt the Andamio platform was at delivering governance knowledge.
Please describe your plans to share the outputs and results of your project?
We will release the source and materials under a Creative Commons license that allows derivatives, so people can either take the courses as-is, or adapt them to their specific organization and add them as part of a larger curriculum.
We will release all of our material in both an open and running instance of Andamio, as well as the source repository of our course materials.