You address two things here that are worth talking about separately.
- Education on how to be a good Steemian
- An education platform built on Steem
Good steemian education already has a few efforts. I'm not sure of the status of them, but it'd be worth linking up with them to find out. Minnow University comes to mind. I myself think that one of the core things that communities offer to members is education, which is a good reason to back communities.
The second is the building of an online education platform on Steem. I would try to decouple 1. from 2. so that you don't hold up 1. until you have 2. in place. Building an online learning platform is a major exercise - but a worthy one who's time has probably come. There are really good supporting services (dTube, dSound, dLive), fairly mature coding tool chains and the infrastructure is improving. This would still be a major undertaking though. But, the models have interesting incentive possibilities; the course could reward progress with upvotes or crypto.
To finish up my blathering, I think that steem as a generic-text platform is very limited. While that is steem's current core function, the platform is in place for us to build upon. That's why I see a big part of steem's future in communities accessing steem via third-party interfaces specifically tuned for the needs of those communities - and not all those communities will be content-creation based.
Very much agree, we will therefore divide it into two phases. Whatever happens in phase one we will work on this minnow university which we use discord for and phase 2 is about building the platform. So what ever happens we will work on building up educational materials and inviting other educators.
I agree I think we will use one of the platforms you mentioned, @dlive for online tutorials.
It seems like it will move in that direction with SMTs and hivemind. I hope our education platform will be one of them.
Thank you for giving your thoughts @eturnerx! I hope your bot will also find its place by helping communities to connect with their members :)