1Cademy is an online academic environment where all users regardless of their discipline, level, and background work on the one single knowledge map. While having access to the shared knowledge, each user develops a personal view of the map based on their needs and interests.

1Cademy: A single shared knowledge map

Sometimes researchers and learners from disciplines far apart find innovative connections between their nodes and propose them. Seeing such novel connections encourages members of both communities to start a conversation around the new links as their common ground.

Connecting members of different communities

When searching through the shared map, one can find related concepts from different communities and identify major contributors who share the same interest. This way, 1Cademy facilitates finding people with similar interest who can form research and learning communities.

Finding like-minded people on 1Cademy

- 1Cademy: A single shared knowledge map
- Finding like-minded people on 1Cademy
- Connecting members of different communities

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- Progressive Differentiation
- Integrative reconciliation
- Group evaluation
- Group improvement
- Idea generation
- Community formation
- Democratizing knowledge sharing

How 1Cademy Improves multidisciplinary research

Researchers and learners collaboratively divide each section of an article or book into smaller concepts, as granular as possible. This helps both the authors and readers to better understand each concept.

This is especially helpful for the interdisciplinary researchers who'd like to start learning about a new domain, as it facilitates basic understanding of concepts.

Progressive Differentiation of Concepts on 1Cademy

Identifying and visualizing prerequisite links between granular concepts help:
- Organization of concepts and their relationships in one's mind.
- Finding novel connections that are currently missing between interdisciplinary concepts.
- Easily figuring out what prerequisite concepts should be studied before continuing with target concepts.
- Providing learners with multiple pathways to understand each target concept.

Integrative reconciliation of Concepts on 1Cademy

All nodes and proposals on 1Cademy are evaluated through voting on how helpful they are for each individual's learning.

Users can also express their personal ideas, criticisms, or potential research questions by proposing "Idea" nodes under each node.

Group evaluation on 1Cademy

- All decisions on 1Cademy are made based on the majority of votes.
- No one has any special privilege over others.
- The community progressively and collaboratively decides which concepts are important to the community by upvoting the helpful nodes and downvoting/eliminating the unhelpful and/or potentially misleading ones.
- 1Cademy locks highly upvoted nodes from changes unless the proposal gets approved by at least half of the number of users that upvoted the node.

Democratizing Knowledge Sharing on 1Cademy

- Critically thinking about existing nodes on ways that they can be improved.
- Reforming clusters of nodes to better represent conceptual interconnections.
- Finding novel connections that are currently missing between interdisciplinary concepts.

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