Freedom of direction
- Learning by exploring (i.e. self-direction by choosing what to study)
- Ability to teach newer theories/concepts (i.e. the curriculum was able to build in  concepts such as causal inference)

Learning through thinking
- Practicing critical thinking (i.e. the decision of whether to post a node and how to write it)
- Practicing metacognition (i.e. deciding whether to upvote/downvote and whether to improve a node or not)

Collaborative environment
- Collaborative mapping (i.e. reading a node from another persons understanding of that concept)
- Collaborative discussions (i.e. listening to someone else explain a concept or node in class)
- Signs of life (i.e. users monitor other users activity)
-  Competition between users (i.e. who makes a post first)

Structure
- Ease of navigation of topics (i.e. search bar and parent/child nodes)
- Assists meaningful learning through organization (i.e. hierarchies improve visual organization)
- Synthesis of an online platform and traditional ways of learning (i.e. reading books and transcribing nodes on map)

Transparency
- Transparency in moderation (i.e. seeing someone else's reasoning for post and upvoting/downvoting)
- Transparency of content (i.e. seeing a reference someone used for a node)

Gameification
- Measures of information value (i.e. more liked nodes can be deemed as more useful)
- Design features that improve motivation (i.e. student dashboard with score tracking)


Advantages of 1cademy Class (from survey)

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5. Analysis and Results
6. Discussion
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