Please describe your proposed solution.
We perceive three interconnected problems:
- Currently, education is focused on compliance and competition instead of problem-solving and contribution.
- As organizations grow, they become too bureaucratic which impedes their capacity to solve problems in an efficient manner.
- Individuals struggle to find meaning in their work and build relationships of trust.
Background
As a result of the work Gimbalabs has done over the past years through the Plutus PBL program, Gimbalabs Playground, and Gimbalabs Live Coding, we have observed that these problems also affect decentralized organizations, providing the perfect opportunity to solve them using a different approach.
We created Andamio to change how education works, making it more accessible and interactive, helping organizations collaborate and building relationships within the community based on trust. By developing and scaling the Andamio LMS platform on the Cardano blockchain, we will support Cardano’s efforts to “bring about a positive global change” in a unique way.
Minimum viable product (MVP)
We have taken the initiative to onboard new developers to Cardano through our highly successful Plutus PBL program (4th iteration is live at: <https://plutuspbl.io/>) which has empowered more than 500 students to start learning Cardano development and gain invaluable real-world experience. After two years of insightful observations and continuous improvement, we have developed and reached a significant milestone—an MVP that tackles the problem of tracking skills and contributions head-on.
Fig 1. The Andamio platform: A) Landing page, B) Student skills and contributions record; C) Skills and contributions record dashboard; D) Student record aggregate
We built Andamio’s infrastructure on Cardano blockchain technology. Its LMS integrates:
- Project-Based Learning methodologies
- Mastery-Based Assessment
- Smart Contract-based Skills and Contribution Tracking
- Treasury management and reward contracts
We have designed our project to engage two key stakeholder groups:
- Members of the Cardano community seeking to contribute to real-world projects.
- Organizations looking to onboard contributors to their projects.
Further, various organizations within the Cardano ecosystem, such as Wada, MeshJS, Governance Guild, Cardano Foundation, and Emurgo, have already shared their interest in using the Andamio platform to support their onboarding and education programs.
This proposal’s aim is to provide funding to take the Andamio platform from its MVP stage to a pilot project where we will offer it to other organizations within the community.
For this, we have identified the following needs:
- Beta testing: get the Andamio LMS platform in front of potential contributors to test the platform and gather feedback.
- Lead generation: Collaborations with multiple organizations within and outside the Cardano ecosystem that will benefit from the use of Andamio.
- Implementation and adoption support: make sure interested organizations implement and adopt the Andamio platform and gather feedback.
- Market research: Competitor, competitive and industry analysis. Target market validation and refinement and go-to-market strategy.
- Business analysis: Revenue stream and cost structure analysis and business modeling.
- Legal and regulatory compliance: Legal and regulatory compliance for mainnet deployment.
- Design and prototyping: Improving user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) design and refine products functionalities.
Cardano seeks to “bring about a positive global change”. By developing and scaling the Andamio LMS platform on the Cardano blockchain, we will support this ecosystem in achieving its goal.
Our long term plans include, but are not limited to:
- Implementation of the Andamio platform across the Cardano ecosystem.
- Promotion of the platform to Universities and organizations offering educational programs outside the blockchain industry.
- Securing external funding and generating different revenue streams to continue to improve and promote our product.
How does your proposed solution address the challenge and what benefits will this bring to the Cardano ecosystem?
The challenge asks the question: What products and integrations can be developed or improved that will offer more use cases to the Cardano ecosystem that are high impact and drive more adoption?
Andamio is a unique innovation on the Cardano blockchain that combines a PBL-based LMS with a treasury management system. It offers organizations a smooth onboarding process and helps contributors transition from learning to real-world project participation. We provide the Andamio platform to Cardano organizations as a business solution, simplifying contributor onboarding and offering educational resources for acquiring project-related skills.
The Andamio platform on Cardano:
- Integrates PBL methodologies and tracks skills and contributions for onboarding contributors to real-world projects.
- Enables organizations to create treasuries for rewarding student or contributor contributions, leading to faster feedback loops.
- Streamlines the recruitment and onboarding process, reducing costs and time for organizations.
- Incentivizes trust-based relationships between organizations and contributors.
- Promotes community building and growth by connecting different Andamio instances into a network of contributors and organizations sharing knowledge and working towards common goals.
Cardano needs innovative solutions to help the ecosystem reach its potential and help improve the systems we use worldwide. The above mentioned solution presents how Andamio supports the Cardano ecosystem and builds a blockchain-based LMS platform that any educational organization/content can use.
How do you intend to measure the success of your project?
Within a six-month period:
- No. of organizations using Andamio
- No. of contributors enrolled in PBL programs
- No. of contributors completing PBL programs
- No. of contributors onboarded to Cardano organizations
- Ada distributed as rewards for contributions
- No. contributor tokens minted*
In the short-term, we expect organizations using the Andamio platform to implement PBL modules that will greatly improve their contributor onboarding process. In the mid-term, we expect to attract new developers to the Cardano ecosystem offering a more rewarding, low-risk/high-reward training and onboarding process. In the long-term, we estimate the Andamio platform will reduce the time and amount of resources spent in educating and onboarding contributors to real-world projects by at least 50%.
We expect that, In the future, the Andamio platform will be used not only by the Cardano community but by the education and learning services industry in general.
*Contributors can choose to not go through a PBL module if they consider they have the expertise to deliver on a project/task, however, they will be at a disadvantage over those contributors that have taken the time engaging and developing a relationship with the organization.
Please describe your plans to share the outputs and results of your project?
We are already developing Andamio in the open. We will continue to share the outputs of our project through:
- Comprehensive documentation of development on an Andamio instance
- Live coding sessions and recordings available on YouTube
- Our Discord server
- Progress reports will be made available through our website