The document outlines a project aimed at addressing the educational needs of 1 billion disadvantaged children by 2030 through innovative, self-directed learning methods that utilize low-cost technology. It proposes building an offline learning platform that fosters creativity, critical thinking, and social learning through peer-to-peer interactions, personalized learning paths, and project-based activities. The initiative includes a scalable plan to develop and deploy these educational resources in both formal and informal environments while securing funding and partnerships for sustainability.

2. 1 Billion Educationally Disadvantaged Children by 2030
● 121 Million children cannot be reached by
current traditional educational models.
● 650 Million children leaving school with
Global Skills gaps. They lack creativity,
curiosity, critical thinking, entrepreneurship ...
Only a small few
are getting a
quality education

3. Leaving no one
behind - how
long will it take?
Image by: Brad Ruggles
Until 2086
(UNESCO)

4. Challenges with current solutions
● Top down linear curriculums
limited learning and impact
● High cost and slow to deploy
100 M+ Children left behind
● Cannot build enough schools
cannot train enough teachers

5. We think there is
another approach

6. Instead of forcing children
through a one-size-fits-all
education, is there a way to:
Empower them, foster their creativity
leverage their curiosity and passion ?

7. Image by: Global Literacy Project
Build Software to work offline on low
cost devices, charged by solar power. Use
mesh networking to connect devices.
Our Design Philosophy
Be used by children and teachers without
requiring training or outside guidance.
Foster self-directed,
peer-to-peer &
group learning.
High Scalability
For Formal and Informal
learning environments
Grassroots driven

8. What we have done
Done
● Researched unique, empowering
approaches to learning
● Architect solution, develop tests
● Phase 1 Prototype developed and
field tested in East Africa
To Do next 6 months
● Build phase 2 version of
software, continue field tests
● Hire engineers & others
● Raise additional funds for
continued dev & pilot

9. Building initial tools to foster
child-driven learning that does
not require formal guidance
What we are doing now
Build prototype
learning map
Focusing on
literacy and
numeracy

10. Creating an offline library and Librarian
Build an offline library to
include the wealth of
digital learning content
that’s already available.
Build tools and
navigation to guide
children through their
learning like aLibrarian would

11. Conceptual illustration only! Image: Danny Hillis, Applied Minds
A growing open
map that
educators from
around the world
can add to. Built
for both formal
and informal
learning settings.
A world of Learning to explore
Imagine a world of
learning to explore.
Initially starting
with literacy and
numeracy.

12. Personalized
Learning paths
based on child’s
passions, curiosity
and curriculums
they subscribe to.
Shows the recommended
path to get to your goals.
Open platform for all to use
Access content
from the map.
We are content
agnostic, meaning
we can use OER,
crowdsourced and
licenced content.
Conceptual illustration only! Image: Danny Hillis, Applied Minds

13. See what you
have learnt and
mastered.
Take assessments
along the way to
validate learning.
Gameify, adaptive learning
See what you have not yet learnt, and
how it relates to what you are learning.
Conceptual illustration only! Image: Danny Hillis, Applied Minds

14. Blaze your
own trail, see
what your
friends are
doing and find
interesting
new ideas to
explore.
Help yourfriends learn,or get helpfrom them.
Your friend needs
your help!
Foster social learning
Conceptual illustration only! Image: Danny Hillis, Applied Minds

15. Conceptual illustration only! Image: Danny Hillis, Applied Minds
Group learning - Crowdsourcing the SDGs
Most of these
children are growing
up believing they are
worthless.
We help change that
by including
impactful project
based learning
activities as part
of the map
Work in groups on
real-world projects
relating to the UN
SDGs
Share solutions
and learning with
the world

16. Scaling Plan
Developed markets
Emerging Markets
Numberofdeployments
Year 1 2 3 4 5 6
1B
0
Working with
partner NGO’s
Regional
governments,
NGO’s and
humanitarian
organizations
Deploy with
Content licensing and
marketplace established
Beta program with Parents in
developed markets
Homeschooling organizations,
and training orgs.
Schools, colleges,
training orgs.
Today

17. RevenueModels
Year 1 2 3 4 5 6
$
0
Sustainability Plan
Bootstrapped,
small grants
($100K).
Large Foundation Grants
($2M to $10M)
Government
Contracts & Grants
($10M to $100M)
Market revenue streams
Philanthropic and public
revenue streams
licensing & marketplace
($1M to $20M)
Beta program
($50K to $200K)
Homeschooling & Training
($15M to $150M)
Schools, colleges,
($500M to $~B)
Today

18. The Moonshot Education Project - Team
Bodo Hoenen
Founder (CEO)
EdTech Entrepreneur,
Founder Dev4X
Michael Eydman
Co founder Product (CPO)
Serial Entrepreneur,
Mobile Product specialist
Vincent Ogutu
Deployment (CDO)
PhD. MBA director
Strathmore University
Natalie Denmeade
Education (CAO)
Pedagogy, Gamification,
indingenous Edu
We are a growing open group of amazing volunteers, advisors and
supporters, several PhD’s, neuroscientists, numerous educators,
technologists and designers.
Core Team

19. Avron Barr
Cognitive Scientist
EdTech Entrepreneur,
Learning technologies,
AI, Machine Learning.
Dean Thompson
Technologist
Startup Specialist,
Serial Entrepreneur,
AI Technologies.
James Stanfield
Ph.D Educator
Self organized learning
specialist, Leading
educator.
Diana Sharp Ph.D
Learning Scientist
Cognitive Scientist,
Named Global leader
by Microsoft.
Katie Meyler
Changemaker
TIME person of the
year, $1MM winner as
leading educator.
Andrew Cohen
Data/Analytics
Cognitive Science,
Mentor @ Techstars &
General Assembly.
Michael Sutton
Ph.D Gamification
Educator, Designer,
Gamification, Data &
Intelligence expert.
T. Karsenti Ph.D
Edu , EdTech
One Laptop Per Child,
worked in 30 African
Countries, Canada
research chair.
Vincent Ogutu
PH.D Educator
Developing world
social entrepreneur
and educator.
The Moonshot Education Project - Core Advisors

20. We need your help!
Find out more about us here: — dev4x.com
Join the growing community: — dev4x.com/#joinus
Connect with us on social: — Facebook | Twitter | Google+

21. Appendix

22. Learn by Teaching
● Children are passionate teachers.
We leverage that and encourage
peer-to-peer group learning.
● See what your friends are
learning, join them, help them or
get help yourself.
● Form groups to tackle difficult
concepts.
Self-Directed Learning
● Learners freely explore a map
of educational content.
● If they want to become a
mechanic they can see all the
things they will need to learn
to get there.
● Stories & UI encourage
curiosity and exploration.
The Learning Map — Educational content is added to a gamified learning map,
allowing children to explore, see what their friends are learning and how they
can get to where they want to go from where they are now.
Project Based Learning
● Provide children who grow up
believing they are worthless with
real-world projects that empower
and instill self-value.
● Leverage passion and foster
creativity and entrepreneurship.
● Build community and sense of
pride in learning.
How it will work

23. The Learning Map Explained
The learning map is a data structure, mapping
individual bite-sized learning concepts to one
another through a mechanism of weighted
relationships.
These are nodes. Each node
represents a concept that
needs to be learnt.
The nodes are connected to
each other through weighted
connections.
The weighted connections
between nodes and the
pathways they create are
dynamically influenced by,
curriculum experts, machine
learned data and the child’s
usage data. Each learner
would have a unique learning
path designed just for them.
This content could
include videos, games
and books from
multiple different
publishers, including
open educational
resources.
Each node includes multiple types of content
teaching you about the particular concept that the
node represents.
Start
Here
Each piece of content is
tagged with metadata
describing what's it’s
about, type, style,
language . . .
These components come together to create
the learning map. The core of our adaptive
recommendation engine, which can empower
kids to take control of their learning.
META

24. Our open learning map
allows us to provide
highly personalized and
adaptive learning, as well
as a dynamic learning
world for each child to
explore.
Building a learning quest world
Start
Here
Building a dynamic,
personalized, game environment
would be really difficult, unless
we do something really smart.
We are procedurally
generating the game
world based on the
learning map in real
time.
Children choose their
language, localization
and personal options,
or mod their own.
Now it gets
really exciting !
With this game world generated, a boring
linear curriculum suddenly becomes an
adventurous journey
Educators from
around the world
create learning pathways,
and children explore those
or create their own path.
The success of each path is
rated over time as children
try them out, the best for
each child rise to the top.
We encourage exploration
with exciting side missions
encouraging deeper
learning
Path - A
Path - B
Path - C
Venturing to buildings
or objects opens up
educational apps,
books or videos.
Obstacles create
challenges, master
skills and knowledge
to get by them.
A dynamic world is
generated and
personalized for
each child.
Each type of data, content or activity and
the connections between them, get
represented on a map that can be explored.

25. Assessment model
From Tenkley
assessment model
“You get what you
measure”
Which is why instead
of generic standards
based assessment, we
focus on what really
matters.

26. Input Data:
Requirements
Prerequisites….
Content
Framework
Library of
content
Mesh
Network
AI and
Machine
learning
Profile
Data
Natural
User
Interface
Content contained within
a Tin Can API wrapper
Output data:
Usage, score,
progress….
Content
+Meta Data:
Type, Level,
tags ….
The library will take
three forms, dependent
on connectivity.
Content
On device
or SD
card.
Content within the Mesh
Network on other devices
including local servers
Content within a
library housed in
the cloud.
Child’s data:
Usage, score,
progress….
Child's data is continually analyzed with
machine learning algorithms when device
is not used and being charged
It produces multiple hypotheses, each
with a rating of how confident it is of
that hypotheses
Supervised machine
learning loop by child,
parent or educator.
Learned data
influences what
content, teaching
methods, style
etc…. is presented
to the child.
How
can I
help? Encyclopedia
Children interact
with the AI
through Natural
Language.
AI uses wikipedia
type information as
its corpus of
knowledge
AI is session aware,
remembering what
was discussed before
and using it for
future conversations
Data analyzed to increase
accuracy of speech recognition.
Speech recognition data
shared with local mesh to
increase local accuracy
Mesh used for educational
processes and
communication allowing for
free, uncensored and private
communication with the ever
expanding mesh network.
Start
Here
How
can I
help? Encyclopedia
Children interact
with the AI
through Natural
Language.
AI uses wikipedia
type information as
its corpus of
knowledge
AI is session aware,
remembering what
was discussed before
and using it for
future conversations
Data analyzed to increase
accuracy of speech recognition.
How the Tech Works

27. Content Types
1. Knowledge Type
Content pushed to open
cloud based library
Two distinct
Content types
will be used
Start
Here This is the academic
educational content
that includes:
Specialized
beginner literacy
and numeracy
apps, games and
content
Regular content
already available
like OER’s,
videos, apps,
games,
and elearning
courses
Resources, like
fictional Ebooks
encyclopedia and
dictionaries
2. Social Type
This is content that
requires social,
collaborative and practical
application of what was
learnt in the knowledge
type content.
Teach a
friend
The child will
need to help
teach their peer
what they just
learnt with the
knowledge type
content.
The child will
need to work
with a team to
complete project
and Sugata Mitra
‘SOLE’ based
tasks
Group work
Platform
searches for
peers that need
help
suggest list of
peers that need
help
Child teaches
peer how to
complete the
knowledge
content they are
working on
Both children
are rewarded
Platform
searches for
matching peers
Suggests
groups
Provides group
with problem or
project to solve
all children are
rewarded
Content
processed,
Metadata +
Tin Can API
added
Content then
available to
download or
import.
Localize
Content
Content can be
pulled, localized
and re-authored
as a separate
version
Content gets
cataloged and
organized

28. Core TeamPartners Community support
Community of
scientists, inventors,
engineers, artists,
thinkers and doers from
around the world.
The XPRIZE vanguard
community of advocates,
developers, designers,
teachers, scientists and
engineers
The Open Source
community of
developers, designers,
coders and do gooders
Shuttleworth and Ashoka Foundations
Social Investors in open projects that have
the potential to make huge change
+180 Volunteers: Phd’s,
Neuroscientists, Technologists,
Educators, Parents, Engineers and
Moonshot thinkers
with many more joining
The Moonshot Education Project
A growing team of
Entrepreneurs,
designers and do
gooders
Organizations
School in the cloud,
Serval Project,
Princeton AI, Mobidev

29. Impact Model
Phase 1 = We
Provide children a
Tablet, with general
games, e-books &
educational content
Phase 2 = Phase
1 + Curated edu
content aligned to
goals. A metrics &
analytics engine.
Phase 4 = Phase
1+2+3 + Adaptive
engine and explorative
quest based learning
paths and game world
Phase 5 = Phase
1+2+3+4 + Group,
mentorship & Peer
to Peer learning
tools & open badges
Phase 6 = Phase
1+2+3+4+5 + AI ,
natural language
interface and
personalized guide
EmpoweringEducationalResources
The educational
resources an average
middle class child has
in the US
What we are currentlyworking on: Phase 2
Phase 3 = Phase
1+2 + localized &
collaborative, social
learning content +
an Authoring tool