For topics, show learning paths at different levels

[nileshtrivedi]

Users following a topic may be at various levels: Children, beginners, intermediate, advanced, elites/researchers etc. Ideally, we should have different syllabus at each level - till the time, we can start generating personalized syllabuses.

Our topic page should be redesigned to show these different syllabuses. The backend should also keep track of which level user is currently pursuing.

[tejpochiraju]

Is there a standard taxonomy for levels that has been identified?

[nileshtrivedi]

Hey @tejpochiraju

There are currently 5 levels: Childlike, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced and Research. More granularity hasn't felt necessary so far. But I'd love to know what you think.

[tejpochiraju]

Yesterday, someone pointed me to this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_model_of_skill_acquisition

[nileshtrivedi]

@tejpochiraju Nice! There is also the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy: https://www.celt.iastate.edu/teaching/effective-teaching-practices/revised-blooms-taxonomy/

Levels for us, are just to provide some classification of links/resources so that users can filter things more easily. On the other hand, assessing the skill or progress of a user and designing labels for them is a hard problem indeed.

[tejpochiraju]

@nileshtrivedi - you are right that this is a hard problem. The reason I believe this matters is that, in the long run, having levels that map to accepted standards will, potentially, simplify import of resources as well as any analysis of learning goals etc.

I think your labels are more suitable than the academic models. Having the same number of levels and some form of internal mapping to one of these may suffice. Dreyfus fits in that basic sense because it also has 5 levels.