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Announcing: On Deck Labs — a call to arms to help build the future of education.

We’re looking for world-leading subject-matter experts and community builders to come build the learning communities of the future.

Learn more and apply here: beondeck.com/post/labs

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The earliest education institutions looked nothing like today’s corporate forms of higher education.

Coffeehouses and salons filled with curious individuals, learning together, gave way to bloated administration and a disconnect from the realities of the job market.

Many have tried to unbundle the university.

Massive open online courses (“MOOCs”) unbundled the education component, accelerators and fellowships unbundled the network, and folks like Github and Behance unbundled credentials for specific expertise areas.

https://twitter.com/eriktorenberg/status/1288911393257791489

But on the education front at least, MOOCs failed to live up to the hype.

These programs failed to grasp something critical to the learning process: the respect and perspective of *who you learn with*, developed among the camaraderie of the “classroom”

https://twitter.com/patrickxrivera/status/1297653426784833541

The core innovation at On Deck is not necessarily better education.

On Deck is special because it "rebundles" community with learning: peer to peer knowledge transfer, facilitated through structured events, breakouts, and resources.

https://twitter.com/david__booth/status/1217627582910226433

Today we’re excited to share our plans to bring this community based learning to the world.

We’re announcing On Deck Labs: a sandbox for experiments in the future of education, and call to help build our next 15-20 fellowships/community-orientated courses
beondeck.com/post/labs

We’ll validate new opportunities under criteria including:

• Do people consider this skill/sector/subject core to their identity?

• Does its existence make our existing fellowships stronger? (e.g. value to ODF)

• Do we have an unfair advantage to build this?

8/ Behind the scenes, we are building the operational infrastructure to run tens, and then hundreds of programs in parallel, enabling thousands of learners to engage within small cohorts, and discover collaborators across the On Deck universe.

https://twitter.com/david__booth/status/1302066705464664064

We have plans in the works for verticals such as Climate, Healthcare, Crypto, and skills like Machine Learning, Design, Engineering, Product Design, Sales & Business Development, and much more.

Browse, pre-register, and apply to help build here:

beondeck.com/apply

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