# A Vision of NEAR EDU

The opportunity to reinvent mass education may be here. Among the four major phases between birth and death: childhood, schooling, work and retirement, most of the world continues to pay for schooling and get paid for work.

What if we could get paid to learn? What if learning was more than just receiving and reflecting? What if the rewards we earned while learning were transferable towards a higher standard of living?

NEAR Education sees a world with

- **millions of students earning meaningful compensation** to learn and help others in their community learn with them.
- **continuously improving learning experiences** driven by world-class systems and content
- **enviable learning outcomes** measured using recognized methods of modern learning science

And in this world anyone with access to the network can participate permissionlessly.

- What is Success for this team in 12-24 months?
- Who are the key stakeholders this team serves?
- What is the ideal experience of these stakeholders?
- What needs to exist, especially via this team's efforts, to create this ideal experience?
- If in 5 years, NEAR was ultimately the most successful blockchain ever and it was mostly because of this team's efforts, why would that be?

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NEAR EDU operates in support of NEAR Foundation whose purpose is summarized as follows


> The NEAR ecosystem’s success is driven by 3 key priorities, which are shared by the NF:
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> - **Awareness**: How many people know about and can accurately describe NEAR’s value proposition?
> - **Adoption**: How much usage is the platform getting from each of its key stakeholder groups:
> - Consumers (Monthly Active Accounts, “MAA”)
> - Financials, (Total Value Locked, “TVL”)
> - Developers, (Monthly Active Developers, “MAD”)
> - Apps, (Total financing raised)
> - Community Members, (Onchain Community Members)
> - **Credibility**: Do people within each stakeholder group who know about NEAR have a very high opinion of its quality and prospects for success?
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> The NEAR ecosystem’s overall success is difficult to measure, but two metrics which represent opposite ends of the spectrum are
> - the **total market cap of projects within the ecosystem** (but which can be influenced heavily by market forces)
> - and the **gross marketplace value of transactions** driven by the platform (both on chain and off).