Learn Build. Self-teaching done right.
How do we learn new things? As students at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, we all have at least one thing in common: we're paying tens of thousands of dollars for a college education. But what about everyone else? What about people trying to self-teach for entry level IT jobs? Or people with a degree in business looking to change career paths? Or, maybe even more importantly, what about people who simply can't afford the price tag of a college degree?
Take Sally for example. Sally wants to start learning about web development, so she googles "intro to web dev." What she gets back is pages and pages of resources to look at, but now she has no idea where to start. If she wants guidance on where to begin, she might consult random users on reddit or an obscure forum, but for the most part she comes to realize that there's an over saturation of options with no clear direction. That's where Learn Build comes in.
Learn Build is a crowdsourcing platform for building the best way to learn. It allows users to create, find, and view Builds containing free resources they've found helpful for learning about certain topics at an intro, intermediate, and advanced level. Tags filter Builds into relevant categories and allow users to easily start finding resources for topics that interest them. And an upvote system highlights Builds that others have used to succeed.
Our mission is to give control back to the user when it comes to deciding how they want to learn. Through Learn Build, we hope to foster a community for learning and sharing open and accessible to everyone.