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The sequence of steps that teachers and learners will follow during the course.

1. Accreditation form - The teacher prepares a Google form to enroll learners to the class. The enrolling is the only step that happens before the start of the course. A link to the accreditation form is posted on the course page. The accreditation form will collect the following information:

   • name and surname

   • email address

   • Discord username

   • Metamask Ethereum address

   • experience level with Web3 (in a scale from 1 to 5)

2. Mailing list - Important communications, especially in the initial settling-in phase of the class, will be provided by e-mail. This is the reason why email addresses are collected

3. Discord channel - The virtual classroom is the Discord server for the DAE project. In particular, on that server the teacher opens private text and voice (plus video) channels, called Dear Data, reserved for members of the class. The text channel is dedicated to all communication regarding the course and also serves as a forum for an initial discussion of proposals. The voice channel is used as a place to lively discuss the class topics

4. Scaffolding - The semi-structured organization of the course, with bound and free teaching variables, are discussed with the students

5. Karma - Initially, each student has karma 10 and each teacher has karma 50. Student's karma can increase for students via virtuous actions, while teacher's karma is fixed

6. Badges - Red Panda, White Tiger, and Black Dragon badges (soulbound credentials) are assigned to students when the student reaches karma levels 20, 30, and 40, respectively

7. Proposals and voting - Proposals and voting of proposals happen on Snapshot. Karma counts as voting power. Before posting a proposal on Shapshot, it is discussed in the class and on Discord channels. On Snapshot proposals are voted with the one-karma-one-vote method and a quorum of 1/3 of the cumulative student karma at the proposal time. If the quorum is reached, the option that receives more votes will be implemented

8. Teaching - Teaching, including flip teaching by students, happens in real life and will not be recorded. Each teacher's regular class lasts 90 minutes plus an open question time. Each student's flip lesson lasts 45 minutes. Classes given by invited speakers are hold in real live or recorded on Google Meet

9. Karma remuneration. The DAE project has a treasury with fungible and non-fungible tokens, as well as in-game rewards, that can be used as a remuneration for learners according to the learn-to-earn model. Rewards are distributed at the end of the course

10. Feedback. At the end of the course students are called to give a feedback on the learning experience. The feedback is structured as follows:

    1. things you did like

    2. things you did not like

    3. how you would change things you did not like

    4. comparison with traditional (top-down) learning experiences (in particular with respect to the Data Science course taught by the same teacher)

11. Links. See the Links page for all relevant links