DAFDEF EDUCATION & SKILLS TRAINING

Few notes from major resources:

 https://blogs.worldbank.org/education/2022-international-day-education-looking-back-and-leading-forward-post-covid19-learning,  International Day of Education

Education is the basic building block of every society. It is the single best investment that can make to build prosperous, healthy and equitable societies.

At the the fourth International Day of Education grappling with the devastating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on our current generation of learners , which at the peak of school closures disrupted learning of more than 1.6 billion children and youth across the world. We are living a “crisis within a crisis”. 

Moreover, in low- and middle-income countries, the share of children living in Learning Poverty – already 53 percent before the pandemic – could reach 70 percent given the long school closures and the ineffectiveness of remote learning to ensure learning continuity for young children. The latest data also points to an inequality catastrophe in the making: across generations, socio-economic groups, locations, and across countries.

A chorus of voices internationally is sounding the alarm for policy makers to act now and decisively. At the end of 2021, the outgoing UNICEF Head, Henrietta Fore, and World Bank Group President, David Malpass uttered a powerful message to reverse the pandemic's education losses, and highlighted that by investing in learning recovery and using technology wisely we can turn the challenges and lessons from the pandemic into a catalyst to achieve the SDG goal of quality education for all children .

We enter the third year of the pandemic armed with new data and lessons on how countries are ensuring learning continuity and recovery in the midst of the spread of the highly contagious Omicron variant, along with updated guidance and tools for: reopening and keeping opened schools safely, making remote learning more effective, measuring learning loss and assessing learning remotely, supporting teachers, and for developing and implementing robust evidence-based and inclusive learning recovery plans. Our education team, in collaboration with several partners, has been actively contributing to the global knowledge base in this area. Below is a very selected compilation of links to these resources.

Meanwhile, let me share my own takeaways on what it takes to recover from this crisis and rebuild back better, effective, equitable and resilient education systems:

• In order realize the future of learning where learning does not stop at the school walls, we need to be guided by the fact that children learn best when they experience joy, rigor, and purpose in the learning process. Resilience and equity in education are two sides of the same coin. Remote education needs to harness the power of connectedness and meaningful two-way interactions between teachers and learners, and need to engage and support parents as partners to ensure both continuity of learning and children’s socioemotional well-being, especially in the early years.   
• While not a magic bullet, education technology can be an effective tool to expand access to learning both inside and outside of the classroom, building more resilient systems that personalize learning at and beyond the school. To realize this potential, investments in EdTech need to be embedded in broad, sustainable policies and programs that enable schools and education systems to accelerate learning, with a ruthless focus on equity. Digital learning must serve as the great equalizer, rather than what it has been: a great divider.   
• All efforts should aim at enhancing the effectiveness of teachers, through constant and effective feedback on how to improve their pedagogy, structured lesson plans, and strategies to nurture socio-emotional skills and to assess learning in the classroom. This support should include expanding their access and capacity to utilize technology, including technical and pedagogical competencies needed for effective remote teaching.   

DAFDEF brings new innovative technology and business models to cope with the challenge of “Education Crisis “ (at least partially) explained below. (see Few notes from:)

DAFDEF is an online end to end teaching and training marketplace and platform, a game changer that will help reform education in Asia, Africa and South American markets. We focus also on underserved zones and 

The new platform provides engaging and immersive personalized training model to improve methods for K-12 students (focus on Math, English, Mandarin and Spanish). The marketplace delivers innovative, unique technology of teaching, personalization, collaborative learning and assessment for in-class or after school hours. 

Using cryptocurrency to stand up a new kind of Education/Tutoring marketplace giving educators and contributors the opportunity to showcase and monetize their work. Educators can earn meaningful income by authoring and trading for different kind of services to students. The platform will be surrounded by a community that holds a financial stake in DAFDEF via DAF-Token, which they can use to influence its development. 

DAFDEF might be the largest adaption use case of blockchain for the community. With it’s revolutionary business model of shared economy and AI technology, it propagates efficiently rewards/value to educators and their students. It has the potential to reach many millions of users and becoming the major cross border destination for online education. DAFDEF will deliver low-cost (in many cases free) highly protected (IP & credentials) quality education en scale – an unprecedented contribution to the community.

Employing ‘Shared Economy’ business models is becoming more common lately are already introduces with blockchain driven sites (– NFT based) allow dramatic reduction of services cost. For the first time “used and enriched” courses will be sold further as packaged collection to distributers providing new means of earning to talented students and contributors who post their work to the platform. The notion of sale of "used textbook" by sharing cost with authors and delivery stakeholders, and by increasing targeted consumer audience will offer further cost cut. Sponsorship funds would allow freemium model or even free service for unprivileged students.

DAFDEF with its technology and marketplace for education and tutoring services can address millions of underserved students. With it’s revolutionary business model of shared economy and AI technology, it propagates efficiently rewards/value to educators and their students. The platform provides proper tools to allow measured and selected services deliverance to those capable and unprivileged students and teachers. We claim that many capable teachers (even those that are unbanked) can enhance their families’ life style and prosper by using DAFDEF free hosting services.

Students can be rewarded by curating content adding more knowledge and quizzes to existing DAFDEF courses.

DAFDEF provides test preparation courses with intensive training that increases admission chances to quality universities. 

DAFDEF team consisted of PHD grade professionals, we collaborate with the best Web3 experts to provide best of breed solution. With that we can tackle most use cases common and needs for emerging markets with restricted resources for quality education.

One example would be a request for a complete solution for thousands of school classes resident in Latin America. 

DAFDEF approach has been proven as the best way to assure continued classroom operation during problematic Internet connectivity or electricity shortages.

DAFDEF is well-suited for Educational Institutions in rural areas where Internet is restricted with speed and capacity.

The ability to use DAFDEF offline is a key consideration when planning a new learning platform.

Using an DAFDEF offline app will allow learners to continue their learning even when they are:

• Experiencing connectivity issues.
• On the go and not wanting to use expensive mobile data plans.
• Out of classroom and reliant on their phone.
• Learning in remote locations with problematic Internet.
• In the middle of a power cut.

As such, using DAFDEF offline provides greater productivity, better use of time and a more satisfying user experience. Learners can fit training around their work without having to worry about first finding a suitable internet connection.

Offline learning also means that learners’ experiences of media-rich courses are not impacted by poor internet connections. An internet connection is required to download the browser app and relevant learning content(week/semester). The courses with quizzes can then be completed offline with quizzes and assessment without a connection. DAFDEF Webapp allows learners to synchronize with the external LMS server, access course materials, activities and content while offline as they would if the student was online

Learners using DAFDEF App offline can:

• Browse course content.
• Complete quizzes and assignments and get immediate assessment (closed Math questions)
• Train further with adaptive quizzes
• Train for English/Spanish proper pronunciation and comprehension
• Teachers can prepare classwork/homework assignments
• Send private messages.
• Take course notes.

We face barriers on the following points:

1. Market appoach in Africa and Asia

2. Monetary support to conduct 2 major pilots in Brazil and Asia

Fan-ye might be the largest adaption use case of blockchain for the community. With it’s revolutionary business model of shared economy and AI technology, it propagates efficiently rewards/value to educators and their students. It has the potential to reach many millions of users and becoming the major cross border destination for online education. Fan-Ye will deliver low-cost (in many cases free) highly protected (IP & credentials) quality education en scale – an unprecedented contribution to the community.

We plan to raise funds for the following:

Stage 1 : $5m-10m (round A) to fund DAFDEF marketplace for 

1. a major state-wide project by the ministry of education in Israel impact on 1.6m students.

2. pilots in Brazil and Asia addressing 100,000 teachers and their 15m students.

Stage 2:

1. In 18 months we will raise additional $25m-50m for our cross-border DAFDEF marketplace. We estimate capacity of 2m teachers impacting 50m students.

Proceeds will allow expanding in Israel and supporting our partners in our territories of operation.

Our goal is to become platform and marketplace of choice in in our territories of operation.

In 18 months from stage 1 of operation we estimate reaching up to 15m students and 100,000 teachers.

Funding is expected to be realized by approaching key VC in the education prmise as well as blockchain oriented marketplace vendors and investors. (now NFT for art). 

DAFDEF is a game changer that can impact many millions of educators and students that have no access to quality education. It is the first time that a suite of revolutionary OS and AI for education is integrated with blockchain and new kind of 'Shared Economy" business model.

Personalized training and adaptive education technology employed to host teachers' courses with new innovative business models is really a dramatic change to the education sector probably  impacting the general media industry.

The potential is 3 years is hundreds of millions of users that would enjoy affordable quality education anytime anywhere with AI driven training services.

Imagine a world where capable students and educators at all grades can get rewarded for their contribution "Knowledge is the new currency" is our adopted slogan.

Technology used by DAFDEF:

1. NLP for speech training with recognition using video clips, textbooks and internet content.

2. AI that helps converting media such as textbooks Internet content and video to complete learning virtual personalized and adaptive learning space for each individual student and educator.

3. AI driven Robot to convert inline quizzes extracted from textbooks and LMS to adaptive quizzes with automatic assessment. (closed quizzes)

4. AI driven knowledge base for collaborative question answering.

5. Blockchain NFT and Defi applications to help convey transactions across DAFDEF teachers' marketplace.

6. Minting courses with DAFDEF workflow for production using blockchain 'Smart Contracts" to register and deliver services under secured transaction logic. This technology allows tracking of enhances services for the courses added by users as well as rewarding partners across the supply chain.  

We are a small company. To meet our goals we employ freelancers to cover for the following needs:

1. Phd pedagogy expert for English teaching.

2. Social expert dealing with connection to relevant and popular blockchain communities affiliated with education technology and media.

3. Team of programmers helping under supervision of social aspects of blockchain, Defi and NFT.

DAFDEF will benefit by the following revenue tracks:

Students courses: a B2B2C model with 60%/40% rev share

a. English teaching and speech training - outstanding solution based on popular video clips. Process: extraction of speech captions to exercise with speech and recognition by NLP engine that measures success and then upgrades to train further more. A set of forms provided to the student to test and assess for comprehension by using keywords and sentences extracted from related videos or textbooks.

- we would charge $100-1000 for annual per user subscription.

b. Math training - adaptive quizzes powered by AI for different levels achievements  of with personalization 

- we would charge $100-200 for annual per user subscription.

Marketplace services: DAFDEF Marketplace services

Audience: teachers, textbook publishers, Edtech companies, education service providers (universities, private school chains, education portals)

a. Registration and annual subscription fees : $0-$65000 annually

b. Hosting services:   $0-$65000 annually

c. Internal transaction among users : 25>#/p###

d. Servicing students by medium to large providers : 35>#/p###

By selling products or services, service contracts to governments, raising investment capital.

In the past as a founder of newspaper publishing vendor I have collected funds that helped me so far to fund current DAFDEF project at he R&D stage.

At this stage that we are ready for production and expansion overseas I need more funding. Recently we have just started to look for funding amid the new opportunities in Israel, Mexico and Brazil.

Previously MCLp my family company has been successful with implementing newspaper and yellow pages publishing solution (Ynet & Yedioth achronot, Yellowpages Israel, Examiner and Chronicle SF-US) altogether serving ~10m users.

We trust we can raise at least $5m at this A round funding. I am sure that working successfully with MIT-SOLVE would certainly help to achieve this goal.

In the past as a founder of newspaper publishing vendor I have collected funds that helped me so far to fund current DAFDEF project at he R&D stage.

At this stage that we are ready for production and expansion overseas I need more funding. Recently we have just started to look for funding amid the new opportunities in Israel, Mexico and Brazil.

Previously MCLp my family company has been successful with implementing newspaper and yellow pages publishing solution (Ynet & Yedioth achronot, Yellowpages Israel, Examiner and Chronicle SF-US) altogether serving ~10m users.

We trust we can raise at least $5m at this A round funding. I am sure that working successfully with MIT-SOLVE would certainly help to achieve this goal.

In the past as a founder of newspaper publishing vendor I have collected funds that helped me so far to fund current DAFDEF project at he R&D stage.

At this stage that we are ready for production and expansion overseas I need more funding. Recently we have just started to look for funding amid the new opportunities in Israel, Mexico and Brazil.

Previously MCLp my family company has been successful with implementing newspaper and yellow pages publishing solution (Ynet & Yedioth achronot, Yellowpages Israel, Examiner and Chronicle SF-US) altogether serving ~10m users.

We trust we can raise at least $5m at this A round funding. I am sure that working successfully with MIT-SOLVE would certainly help to achieve this goal.

In the past as a founder of newspaper publishing vendor I have collected funds that helped me so far to fund current DAFDEF project at he R&D stage.

At this stage that we are ready for production and expansion overseas I need more funding. Recently we have just started to look for funding amid the new opportunities in Israel, Mexico and Brazil.

Previously MCLp my family company has been successful with implementing newspaper and yellow pages publishing solution (Ynet & Yedioth achronot, Yellowpages Israel, Examiner and Chronicle SF-US) altogether serving ~10m users.

We trust we can raise at least $5m at this A round funding. I am sure that working successfully with MIT-SOLVE would certainly help to achieve this goal.