LiveEdu - Decentralized Project Learning. YouTube for Online Education and Professional Development

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LiveEdu is a decentralized peer-to-peer project learning platform for people to improve their job skills in future technologies. LiveEdu is building the YouTube for online education and professional development. We are taking one category out of YouTube and building it out into a bigger category of its own. Just as Twitch took the category gaming out of YouTube and built it into its own large vertical, LiveEdu is taking the category professional development out of YouTube. The main participants in the LiveEdu network are project creators, viewers, moderators, API developers, colleges,schools, libraries, businesses and third-party online education companies. We are an existing business, with team members from Amazon and Y-combinator.

LiveEdu is building the world's largest project learning network starting with the eight topics: artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, game development, data science, cryptocurrencies, programming, design, and augmented and virtual reality. Our network will be all opened for all topics in 2019. We aim to develop a decentralized online learning network that is not reliant on learning theory, but practical career skills by using real complete projects. Project creators create educational projects and are paid monthly, lifelong royalty fees as viewers learn from their projects. We are emulating the token model of Steemit and applying it to LiveEdu. In this paper we explain the token mechanics for the blockchain EDU smart contract tokens and how we intend to fully integrate EDU into the whole product, internal and external ecosystem.

LiveEdu Platform and API Ecosystem

List of Topics and Categories. LiveEdu covers seven topics; programming, game development, design, data science, virtual and augmented reality, artificial intelligence and cryptocurrencies. Each of these seven topics contains its own sub-categories. The six other new topics were launched in August 2017 and LiveEdu does not yet have significant content for them. Currently, there is no premium project content on LiveEdu except for programming. Our plan is to use part of the funds from the ICO to incentivize streamers to create premium projects.
Main Product Features: Live Streams, Videos, Chat. Content on LiveEdu is organized around projects. Each project contains a live streaming channel, video project playlist and live chat window. Each live stream is archived automatically as a video. LiveEdu gives content creators the ability to deliver their projects via live stream or offline recording. There are two main types of projects on LiveEdu; premium tutorial projects and non-premium projects. The interactive live chat is the main mode of Q & A communication between a content creator and viewers. Learners ask questions, give suggestions for improvement and also socialize with other learners. When a learner opens a live stream he can see the live channel, chat window, project description, curriculum and downloadable resources. Content 10 creators use the streaming software client Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) to stream their desktop, audio and camera to one of the LiveEdu streaming origin servers.
Premium Tutorial Projects. Premium tutorial projects are projects created with the sole intention of teaching learners. They are fully narrative, structured, contain well drafted project descriptions, streamed at same weekly schedule and have downloadable project resources.The creation of premium tutorial projects undergoes a strict content moderation process to ensure the highest quality standard. Creating a premium tutorial project requires the content creator to spend time preparing the content. The content creators selected for premium tutorial projects have vast real industry experience, with at least four years in their field.Below are examples of premium tutorial projects from the fields of data science and programming that explain how LiveEdu teaches learners how to build real products: Project Title: Python Data Analytics and Visualization, Project Title: How to Create a Dating Web App in Node.js, Project Title: Machine Learning Model: Python Sklearn & Kera
LiveEdu API Ecosystem and Third-party Apps As. LiveEdu seeks to position itself as the major tutorial learning platform in the world, an API will help to make this into a reality. Authentication and access controls are performed using standard and widely supported OAuth2 protocol. The API is available over HTTPS and follows RESTful conventions. Third-party developers can build their own complete applications on top of the LiveEdu API. This can be bots, mobile apps, websites, widget or plugins. One of such example is the LiveEdu streamer Iamvalerio who is using the API to build a LiveEdu Android app.

LiveEdu EDU Token Model

Use-Cases for EDU Smart Tokens

Each positive activity a learner, content creator, site moderator or ecosystem participant completes on LiveEdu represents the minting of EDU tokens. EDU tokens are going to be fully integrated into all core modules and transactions on LiveEdu; a paymentmethod for all financial transactions; rewarding premium project tutorial creators,positive learner behavior, site moderators, and API ecosystem developers. When the EDU tokens are fully rolled out and integrated into LiveEdu, this is how they will be used on our website and in mobile apps:

Payment Method for all Financial Transactions
Paying Premium Project Content Creators
LiveEdu Token Utility Activities for Learners
LiveEdu Token Rewards for Quality Assurance and Site Moderation
LiveEdu Token Rewards for LiveEdu API Ecosystem Developers

Technical Implementation of EDU Tokens

Smart Contract Implementation

The EDU smart contract is fully implemented and set-up by the experienced blockchain and ICO experts from New Alchemy. The token is based on the ERC-20 standard with minimal deviations. This was designed with inspiration from other ERC-20 tokens such as Bancor, Filecoin and Civic. The smart contract accepts only ether. investments made with other coins and fiat will be converted to ether.

Token Model

investors can buy EDU tokens directly with Ethereum (ETH), Bitcoin (BTC), Litecoin (LTC), fiat (USD/EUR) and with other coins indirectly via Shapeshift. An EDU token can have maximum eight decimal points. There is a soft cap of $1M and hard cap of $8M for ETH investments (non- ETH investments do not count toward the hard cap).The total number of EDU tokens to be minted for the LiveEdu ICO will be determined after the ICO closes. The total token supply is limited by the hard cap. As soon as the hard cap is reached the ICO closes. For both the pre-ico and main crowdsale, minimum investment amount per transaction is $3. If you send less than $3 per transaction, you will lose that.

The token is denominated in US $:

1 USD = 10 EDU tokens
1 ETH = $ ETH value x 10
1 BTC = $ BTC value x 10
1 LTC = $ LTC value x 10
1 EUR = $ EUR value x 10

Pre-sale bonus:

The company is pre-selling EDU tokens prior to the public sale at a discount on a wholesale basis for large volume purchases. Minimum amount for bonus: $50