Open Campus is a community-led protocol for educators, content creators, parents, and students. Its launch partners include Animoca Brands, TinyTap, GEMS Education, Liberty City Ventures, Dalton Learning Lab, and others. The vision of Open Campus is to leverage Web3 to create a modern, global, and inclusive educational space where teachers, parents, students, and content creators can collaborate.

Yat Siu, the co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands, states:

 “Teachers are among the most prolific and important content creators, but they often lack the funding to advance and innovate in the classroom and in their learning programs. By supporting the Open Campus Global Educators Fund, which we believe is the first of its kind, we want to use Web3 to allow educators around the world to produce new educational content that is relevant and innovative and that can adequately prepare students for the challenges and opportunities of the future.”

Yogev Shelly, the CEO of TinyTap and a member of the EDU Foundation Council, commented: 

“We want to touch upon core values for education and reach underserved communities around the world. Open Campus exists to support knowledge seekers and providers in an interdependent ecosystem. The Open Campus Global Educators Fund will allow teachers to claim upfront funding for the development of material that will have a real impact on the world.”

TinyTap is a subsidiary of Animoca Brands building a leading edtech platform for user-generated educational games. The company has raised US$8.5 million from investors including Sequoia China, Liberty City Ventures, Kingsway Capital, Shima Capital, Polygon, GameFi Ventures, and others. The funding will be used to support TinyTap’s business expansion and accelerate development in the edtech space.

Team members include Uri Lazar (CTO), Yogev Shelly (CEO), and Nissim Pinto (COO). 

Yat Siu, co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands, commented: 

“Teachers and educators are among the most important content creators and contributors in society, and yet their wages typically do not reflect their critical importance. This is why we’re incredibly excited at the Web3 opportunities that TinyTap is exploring in the field of education. Having already succeeded in building a Web2 education platform, TinyTap is now supercharging its efforts using NFTs, making it possible for educators to better generate equity from their work and link up with co-publishers who can handle the promotion of their courses, all while offering students enhanced learning materials.”