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Introducing the Collins Institute: Revolutionizing Education as We Know It
Free Login: https://parrhesia.io/student-signup Join our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/EGFRjwwS92 In this video, discover the groundbreaking Collins Institute, a revolutionary educational platform designed to compete with traditional schools. Learn how this tool functions as a directed learning engine akin to Wikipedia, but organized into an interactive skill tree. Find out how to navigate the interface, take assessments, and benefit from features like free tutoring and AI grading. Explore the theory behind the design decisions, including making education more engaging and self-paced while eliminating biases. Join us at the forefront of transforming education for students of all ages and backgrounds.
Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] Hello everyone! I am so excited to be here with you with Simone today. This is going to be an explanational video.
First on how to use the Collins Institute, our hopefully sort of competitor to existing educational models. And then the theory behind how we built it and why we made the design decisions we did, because what is coming to the public is evolved a lot as a model from what we originally thought we were going to make.
So the first thing before we go into the school system itself, if you're like, okay, what is this? Is this a replacement for public? Cool. Is this a teaching aid for people who are already in the school system? Is this just for kids, or is it also for adult learners? The answer is, in terms of how you contextualize it, the role it's filling in your head, is sort of all of those.
Think of it like Wikipedia. But transformed into more of a [00:01:00] directed learning engine. So a question with something like Wikipedia. Is Wikipedia you know, something that helps people who are already in school? Yes, of course. You know, is Wikipedia something that would help a homeschooler? Of course. Could a person realistically educate themselves to quite a high level using Wikipedia?
Yeah, they could. It's just not really designed to be used that way. So you can think of this as us redesigning a Wikipedia like system, or collation of all human knowledge, so that it can be used in a directed way. And we have tried to include everything in this. You know, from how to lay drywall, to aquaculture pharmacology, To tax policy as it relates to investments, to what you would study in a subject from when you can read in that subject to midway through a PhD in that subject.
Simone Collins: I'm just incredibly excited about this tool. And both Malcolm and I wish that we had access to this when we were kids.
Malcolm Collins: Oh yeah, yeah. No, as somebody with an MBA from Stanford and an undergraduate degree from [00:02:00] St. Andrews, which are two really good schools I would have So, I was actually being so much better educated had I been using this platform than the educational system I actually went through.
Simone Collins: Yeah, to a great extent, it combines a textbook with Wikipedia in the sense that when I used to study, I would go through a textbook's quizzes before I would go through a chapter because I found that I was a little bit more attentive in my learning when I was wondering if I got questions right or if I got a question wrong.
And that is something you can do with this tool,
Our goal was the Collins Institute was to divide all human knowledge into a skill tree. Like you might see in a video game. You progress through this skill tree unlocking nodes, which gives you the ability to tackle more advanced nodes. Here, you can see the classic vertical style skill tree.
Like you might see any video game. However, if you prefer other form factors that we also have a radial view where the skills all radiate out from a central node. And a collapsible view. Where you can collapse all of a.
Single [00:03:00] skill tree path using this double
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