Turn what you know into a course.
InstructOS is a model and set of tools for turning what you know into a course, a lesson, or a mini degree, even if you have never taught or designed a curriculum.
Built for teachers who want independence from traditional schools, and for experts who never called themselves teachers.
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How it works
Three steps, in the order you would do them anyway.
Extract what you know
Start with what is already in your head: the things you explain over and over, the mistakes you learned from, the order you would teach them in if someone asked.
Organize it into a graph
Break it into mini topics and connect the ones that depend on each other. The result is a knowledge graph: a map of the subject, not a table of contents.
Publish it in the shape that fits
The same graph can be published as a single lesson, a course, or a mini degree, a longer structured sequence of lessons. You choose the shape; the structure underneath stays the same.
Why a knowledge graph instead of a fixed syllabus
A syllabus is one path through a subject. Understanding does not work that way: some ideas depend on others, some stand alone, and every learner arrives knowing different things.
Mapping a subject as a graph lets learners move through the mini topics the way understanding actually connects, and lets you reuse the same map for a lesson, a course, or a mini degree.
Built for two kinds of people
For teachers
The best teachers are not confined to schools, and some of the best are not in them. InstructOS is for teachers who want independence from the school system and a way to earn from teaching what they are expert in.
Teach on your own termsFor experts
You don't need to be a teacher to teach. If you have decades of knowledge nobody has asked you to write down, InstructOS helps you get it out of your head, organize it, and earn from sharing it.
Pass on what you knowOpen to anyone with something to teach
InstructOS is meant to be open in the plain sense: few barriers, kept inexpensive, and nothing standing between what you know and someone who wants to learn it.
The goal is to make sharing what you know easy enough that more people do it.
Where things stand
InstructOS is live on the web. You can create an account, map a subject as a graph of mini topics, write the lessons, and publish the result at a public link, or export the whole thing as Markdown and take it with you.
What is not here yet: the iOS and Android apps, learner accounts with enrolment and progress, and paid access. When those land, this page will say so.
Start with what you already know.
Create an account and map the first subject you would teach. If you would rather talk it through first, email us.