Topic: [ANN][ICO] Õpet (OPET) | An AI Companion for Students - page 3. (Read 11023 times)

I have only recently discovered Opet Foundation. I must say, it has massive potential. The changes that it could bring to the education system need to be shared a high levels; this platform could brighten the future in so many ways!

Great, thank you for sharing this with me, I will have a more deeper look into the white paper but im excited by what I know already about  this project.

Open foundation looks like a superb project an AI chatbot to help you with your education... makes me wonder why no one else has tried this before, its a game changer for sure!

Õpet is derived from the Estonian word Õpetaja, loosely translated to teacher or learning. By extension, the company was formed with a mutual embracing of the values underpinning the Estonian and Singaporean education systems, one that firmly believes in excellence and the provision of equal opportunities for all students.

Õpet's goal is to combine the underlying technologies behind blockchain and artificial intelligence to create a personalized education platform which supplements the existing system and curriculum and provides tailored recommendations to high school and pre-undergraduate students worldwide.

Õpet’s AI companion chatbot will serve as a digital tutor companion to guide and monitor the progress of a student’s learning journey. The continuous engagement with the Õpet chat app also facilitates the growth of a global student information database. Through constant student-chatbot interactions which prompt the collection of academic transcripts, extracurricular records, accomplishments and personality profiling, Õpet will create a holistic student profile, enabling the provision of expertly-devised recommendations of courses of study and tertiary institutions worldwide - tailored to each individual student.

Click the links below to find out more about Õpet.

“Education For All” has been on the world agenda for a long time running — and for a good reason. Dubbed the ultimate socio-economic equalizer, education is the magic element in every rags to riches story, now a must-have in order to survive and thrive in today’s data-loaded world. Yet, Competitive education, or “private tuition”, has become the norm for the privileged, skewing the playing field once again as these students tend to fare better in school and in the workplace.

With a passionate aim to make enrichment-focused education affordable and available to all, Õpet’s project harnesses the boundless power of artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain technology to bust education out of the classroom and into one’s own hands. The spread of technology and smartphones worldwide (even in developing countries) gives Õpet a prime medium to launch its AI-driven study companion. Besides, tamper-proof and 100% accurate, the distributed ledger stores all student records with the aim of building a sole reliable archive of high school records to be used by all schools worldwide.

More information about Õpet is available at the links below.

Õpet is an intelligent AI companion chatbot designed to help secondary students with their exam revision. Covering the entire GCSE and “A” Level (and their equivalent in various jurisdictions) curriculum, Õpet is an effective, affordable and convenient digital private tutor to help students revise effectively for their exams.

Õpet seeks to deliver sophisticated conversations to help expand students’ horizons. Through continuous engagement, Õpet will record accurately and securely on a blockchain all information relevant and useful to college admission processes - like users’ interests, preferences, academic progress, records of extra-curricular activities, testimonies, and even personality profiling using the University of Cambridge’s Unique Personality Profiling Tool.

Õpet is bringing the AI recommendation engine technologies used in YouTube, Netflix and Spotify into the education space. Õpet's adaptive recommendation engine will then recommend relevantly, educational and job opportunities to the users.

Revise, Record, Recommend. That's Õpet.

Take a look at what Õpet aims to provide at the links below.

As the world matures and molds into a multi-faceted dynamic space, education should follow on too. Emerging technologies like the blockchain will be a powerful tool in unlocking the infinite possibilities that come with a shared education economy, bringing on a new era. As such, Õpet envision a day when the blockchain technology becomes the solution to various problems existing in the field of education.

- New ways of validating educational certificates and accreditation:
With academic information and extra-curricular records safely recorded on the blockchain, college admission offices can easily tap on this information to help them make more informed decisions when it comes to selecting admission candidates.

- Enabling cross-border direct donations and scholarships:
By leveraging on the distributed ledger as a channel for transactions, donors will be able to send tokens directly to their beneficiaries without having to worry about intermediaries and corruption.

- Breaking the tradition of top-down approach in teaching:
Blockchain-based and AI-enhanced platforms could serve as a reliable source of knowledge. In the interactive and sharing economy enabled by the blockchain technology, learners will be rewarded for sharing and purchasing educational contents on the platform.

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Most high school students were brought so far along the academic path that the moment they’re released to choose their subjects in college, or career options upon graduation, they fall flat into a pool of dilemma. Many know that they might not be maximizing their potential in elite schools and may even be trampled on by bigger fishes in the big pond, yet they have no clue where else to go, if not the mainstream route.

Therfore, Õpet offers a conversational platform — run by artificial intelligence and blockchain technology — that collects individual learning patterns, personal preferences, academic achievements over the years, including testimonies and other extra-curricular information to help high school students understand and discover what they’re individually best at, and the path they should be taking to best maximize their potential. This way, Õpet wished to pave the way for students to understand that they too, can shine without being beaten up and left out to dry in the “perfect” big pond everyone wants them in.

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As students reach the higher grades, it becomes increasingly difficult for schools to meet the individual demands of students when their spectrum of academic and extracurricular needs is taken into account. This problem is amplified by traditional pedagogical methods found in most classrooms, most of which significantly limit the scope for tailoring lessons and learning material to students’ individual learning needs. Schools and teachers are under constant pressure to improve the academic performance of students, all of which possess greatly varying levels of ability - in individual subjects and across the board.

As such, Õpet platform introduces progressive education which combines distributed ledger, AI, machine learning and chatbot technology with personalized learning. The individually-tailored educational supplement is powered by Õpet’s unique artificial intelligence recommendation engine, and is manifested as a companion chatbot serving as a digital companion to complement students’ national and local curriculum revision programs.

Find out more about Õpet at the links below.

The Opet Token (OPET) will be built on the Ethereum Token Standard, also known as ERC20. Other institutions who wish to gain access to the blockchain will need to acquire Opet Token (OPET) from the open-market post the token generation event to gain access. Payments will be allowed in the user’s currency of choice.

A digital wallet is an online or mobile account in which users can store their payment information for Opet Token (OPET). Wallets will be integrated on the Õpet platform for educators, students and other service providers. Any user who downloads the Õpet app and register an account, will have an Õpet digital wallet created automatically. This digital wallet will be the corresponding token-wallet for the users to make any education-related transactions on the platform. The user can pay with fiat via iTunes or Android Pay appstore payment gateways OR Opet Token (OPET) in his/her respective digital wallet for any digital services available on the platform (eg. Digital Tutor Companion Services, Personality profiling services, Education-related E-Commerce such as E-Books, Online courses via Õpet’s partnerships with other platforms etc).

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It is important to remain aware that the chatbot is just the Graphical User Interface (GUI) to showcase the functions of the back end artificial intelligence engine which Õpet is building. The machine itself has no cognitive functions. Therefore, in order to “learn”, they will have to parse through every alphabet, character, word and image at machine level.

However, the core quality of Õpet’s chatbot is focusing on the context, which in this case is defined as the High School (Grade 9-12) Curriculum context, and with Õpet focusing on providing the parameters for identifying the curriculum and the relevant questions and answers (in the Õpet’s question and answer databank), Õpet is providing the machine with the suitable context to understand the corresponding string and numerical values associated with the curriculum. This is to deliver Õpet’s vision of recommending relevantly the contextual elements to the users with high degree of confidence.

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By incorporating a “flipped classroom” concept — an instructional strategy and a type of blended learning that reverses the traditional learning environment — Õpet offers students the opportunity to lead their own learning and nurture a more pro-active approach to education, all whilst having the support of an AI-powered tutor who is ever ready to lend a helping hand.

Also, Õpet’s incorporation of a flipped classroom technology goes beyond the school curriculum; students are encouraged to learn more about themselves through the vivid graphs and charts fed back to the users. Online quizzes conducted on the Õpet platform conclude with a report reflecting user merits and demerits in study and personality, allowing students to discover themselves.

Most importantly, the application of a flipped classroom concept in the Õpet chatbot presents not just extraordinary convenience to students on the platform, it sets a level playing field for students who tend to be left out in typical classroom settings. Students can now set their own pace in an inclusive playground; no one will be left behind again. In an increasingly connected world fused together by sophisticated networks and intelligent technologies, novel modes of teaching such as the flipped classroom concept can be a significant step forward in terms of revolutionizing education.

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Õpet is derived from the Estonian word Õpetaja, loosely translated to teacher or learning. By extension, the company was formed with a mutual embracing of the values underpinning the Estonian and Singaporean education systems, one that firmly believes in excellence and the provision of equal opportunities for all students. Õpet's goal is to combine the underlying technologies behind blockchain and artificial intelligence to create a personalized education platform which supplements the existing system and curriculum and provides tailored recommendations to high school and pre-undergraduate students worldwide.

Õpet’s AI companion chatbot will serve as a digital tutor companion to guide and monitor the progress of a student’s learning journey. The continuous engagement with the Õpet chat app also facilitates the growth of a global student information database. Through constant student-chatbot interactions which prompt the collection of academic transcripts, extracurricular records, accomplishments and personality profiling, Õpet will create a holistic student profile, enabling the provision of expertly-devised recommendations of courses of study and tertiary institutions worldwide - tailored to each individual student.

More information about Õpet is available at the links below.

In high-school as well as pre-undergraduate education, two distinct categories arise in respect to digital transformation. The first relates to engagement, where the personal information known for each student is utilized to deliver relevant and targeted communications at the right time and in the right manner. Ideally, this can be achieved through a number of channels, largely depending on the context. Potential applications include chatbots, text messages, emails and mobile apps, all of which the modern-day student is familiar and comfortable with.

The second category enables the first: a foundation of data where student information can be used to determine when that communication should occur, through which channels it should take place, and how best to achieve optimal engagement from students. The information in question is compiled from website clicks and visits, mobile device behaviour, digital footprints, as well as academic and ECA performance tracking. The aforedescribed data collecting methods remain primitive at present, with significant scope for growth and expansion in the near future.

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Õpet's vision has several driving factors:

1. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

2. Personalized Mobile Revolution of last 2 decades put a gadget medium in the hands of most students

3. Instant Gratification

4. Rising cost of education and competitiveness compels students globally to find that additional edge over classmates/peers

5. Widespread adoption of Blockchain technologies that create irrefutable, tamper-free records across several industry verticals

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Tertiary institutions, accreditation agencies, universities, scholarship providers, student-loan agencies, and potential employers in professional fields are also granted access via the OPET tokens to serve as one true source of students’ records, through buying access into the Õpet's blockchain for validation purposes.

Such a reliable source for reviewing a student's application information, will alleviate their current dependence on traditional middlemen (placement agents) often with outdated and inefficient ways of securing good candidates. Eventually, the more reputable institutions can serve as the “Master Nodes” in the Õpet's Hyperledger Fabric’s Proof of Authority framework to speed up the system of authentication and validation to increase the robustness of the entire system, as Õpet seeks to build a platform for decentralized authentication of school records for students, as well as advancing a new model of education-related philanthropy via the OPET Token.

More information about Õpet can be found at the links below.

Yes, I see your concern. Currently, the development team is working hard on the application development, and you can view the team members' profile and the information regarding partnerships on the whitepaper.

The team is also looking forward to updating their supporters with their new development news, soon.

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With the Õpet digital wallet in place, the user can get rewarded for various contributions they rendered to the network.

One straightforward example is the reward Opet Token (OPET) a user who has graduated from a certain year or National exam can get, if s(he) provides his/her revision notes or relevant content. The amount of incentive reward for the contribution can be voted by the network/community which is geographically or contextually (high-school) defined.

Furthermore, in the bid to build a global alliance for validation services, various high-schools or institutions can be granted incentive tokens if they participate in the validation efforts of the recorded certification of our users. These institutions will be rewarded with more incentive tokens which they can provide to their deserving students for future tertiary scholarships and digital tuition companion services. All these will contribute further to the virtuous cycle and network effects which Õpet seeks to achieve.

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Some of the main features of the chatbot would be:

- Gathering curriculum and Questions & Answers database, preferably sorted by subjects and topics accordingly

- Processing these unstructured data to appropriate structured data

- Backend machine learning + Deriving the suitable algorithms and identifying suitable metrics or data variables to collect for establishing robust recommendation system

- UI with simple Front-end user flow and development

- Market Research and product/market-fit testing

Find out more about Õpet at the links below.

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Õpet is partnering the University of Cambridge Judge Business School’s Psychometrics Centre to embed their unique personality-profiling tool in the Õpet chat app to further assist student users to learn more about themselves.

Õpet brings education into the individual’s own hands with its personalised Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbot companion, while JBSPC provides Õpet with advisory expertise and data-based psychometric support to advance the development of its AI-blockchain technology. The personality-profiling tool looks at a user’s digital social media footprint (e.g. likes, dislikes and interests of the user) to produce a suitable Big5 Personality profile. This, in turn, will further empower the Õpet backend AI recommendation engine to suggest the best universities /tertiary institutions and courses of study for the users.

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Õpet has also partnered with the American University of Central Asia, based in Kyrgyzstan to introduce our back-end Artificial Intelligence engine to learn the local high school curriculum, with the intent to roll out to the various high schools in the region.

This strategic partnership will offer Research opportunities for Õpet to pilot-test its technological effectiveness on a student user population while AUCA reaps the productive benefits of innovative AI-enabled learning. On top of that, this will also serve as a global platform for Õpet to spread awareness of co-creation opportunities for researchers in the R&D of innovative digital-education technology.

More information on Õpet is available at the links below. 

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The United Nations Blockchain Foundation (UNBF) is an organization under the World Blockchain Organization, which is part of the International Development Information Organization-DevNet (IDIO), a Non-Governmental and Non-Profit Organization (NGO) in Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

The UNBF is in the works of tokenizing special drawing rights in the form of cryptocurrency — the Crypto Special Drawing Rights (C-SDR). Similar to the Special Drawing Rights (SDR) established by the International Monetary Fund, the C-SDR will comprise a basket of anchor cryptocurrencies that will pave the way for the global circulation and acceptance of cryptocurrencies in the near future. The Opet Token will be one of the anchor currencies of the basket, securing its value as a global cryptocurrency.

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Õpet also forged a strategic collaboration with World Capacity Builders, Inc, a Canadian impact investing group that works with notable individuals and relevant companies to develop and integrate technology and education content deliverables quickly and efficiently to the world’s poorest and most underserved communities.

Õpet and WCB recognize the important role of education as a main driver of capacity-building, in accordance to UNESCO’s vision to transform lives through education. For Õpet, this strategic collaboration with WCB opens a pathway of international outreach for the platform to make inclusive education more accessible. The extensive network of WCB would be crucial in enabling Õpet’s international outreach.

More news and information about Õpet is provided at the various links below.

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Õpet's distributed ledger will be built with Hyperledger Fabric. Hyperledger Fabric is an open source permissioned blockchain platform for industry-level enterprises that features a modular structure, high levels of confidentiality, and easy scalability to support large networks or users.

With a HyperLedger, Õpet will be able to:

- Control who joins the network and validate the identity of a new user, ensuring maximum security. 

- Execute scalable and fast transactions; public blockchain with every single full node required to process transactions often result in unsatisfactory transaction throughput.

- Set access control rules for sensitive user information.

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The target focus group of the Õpet chatbot is grade 9-10 and 11-12 of the secondary school curriculum and A level curriculum respectively.

Choosing the 15-16 (O Levels) and 17-18 (A Levels) age groups instead of primary school students is highly deliberate given that the medium to use the Õpet chatbot is via the mobile/smart phone. Younger children (<13 years old) have notably less access to mobile cells, with significantly few having been granted ones of their own in the target markets. Moreover, younger children’s usage of mobile devices is not as sophisticated as that of their older peers in their adolescence, which is likely cause a disconnect between users and many of Õpet’s features, rendering the application less effective or even redundant for this age group.

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Once Õpet is widely adopted, the Opet Token (OPET) could possibly expand its use cases to:

- Subject learning or companion subscription package priced per month/per semester/ per year for different exam boards, states, cities, towns etc

- Expansion into new jurisdictions/countries with different curriculums

- Expansion into new subjects beyond the initial suite of subjects (Biology, Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics) that our digital private tutor companion provides

- Affiliate marketing of relevant courses/private tuition services and instructional video-linkage content partnership with online academies like Khan Academy, Coursera, Udemy, Udacity etc

- Potential facility to conduct surveys to allow our users to make money participating in research work

- Network incentive for users to produce relevant educational content for in-network trade or exchange

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