bitmark Hackathon
24 hours to make education more accessible.
At the bitmark Hackathon we are uniting a global community to “Hack for Open Education” – bringing together more than 100 global talents from all over the world to tackle the education accessibility challenge.
Imagine a world full of open learning solutions - how many more people would have access to quality education?
100+ Particpants
24 Hours
1 Challenge
This was the bitmark Hackathon 2023
The overriding goal of the Hackathon was to create open, innovative learning solutions based on the open content-first standard “bitmark” that make digital learning content more accessible. Developers, teachers and other education enthusiasts participated from all over the world, including Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, India, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, Venezuela and Zimbabwe, demonstrating the global reach and impact of bitmark.
The Challenge
Create An Open Language Learning App Based On bitmark In A Day
The hackathon challenges the development of an innovative open language learning app that enables users to learn efficiently and without barriers. The development of the app must be completed within 24 hours. An independent jury will award the three best solutions.
Why join?
The hackathon offers the participants a unique opportunity to contribute their knowledge, collaborate with other disciplines, expand their network, strengthen their skills and develop new innovative ideas.
For companies and organizations, the hackathon offers the possibility to show their creative side to attract and inspire talent, network, and take home new innovative and sustainable solutions for your organization.
Questions to answer
How might we develop an open Duolingo app based on bitmark in 24 hours?
How might we make open language learning solutions available without any barriers?
How might we enable learners and teachers to use open language learning solutions?
How might we create open connections to existing solutions?
How does it work?
You will work in interdisciplinary teams at the hackathon on the given challenge. In doing so, you contribute your knowledge (development, UX, languages, etc.), acquire new skills in exchange, and gain various inspirational moments. Your team has 24 hours to complete the challenge. The resulting solution will then be made available again as open source.
Participants can register as individuals or groups. We suggest a team size of 3 -5.
Participation is free of charge. General communication of the hackathon will be in English.
An independent jury will award the three best solutions.
The Jury
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Julia Pichler
Head of EdTech Austria
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Uwe Erpel
Head of EdTech Engineering at Cornelsen Verlag
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Julia Steger
Top 100 Influencers in EdTech 🚀📚 | CEO at EDUvation
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Polly Watt-Morel
Global Lead Instructional Design @ INCO Academy | Global Training
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Susanne Grassmann
Practice Consultant Teaching and Learning
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Philippe Pointet
Co-Founder at Get More Brain | bitmark Association Committee Member
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Margareta Sailer
Co-Author Culture UP / Speaker | Ex-Tesla, Lilium, Blackberry/RIM
Your Tools
The world's only open content-first standard to create digital learning content: bitmark
bitmark markup language is used to describe interactive, content-first learning material. bitmark therefore is highly specialized in static and interactive learning content like quizzes.
Open Taskpool with more than 24,000 open learning tasks
The Open Taskpool offers you 24,000 open learning tasks based on the bitmark standard. The entire source code of the Open Taskpool is open source, hosted on a Github repository and can be called via a specified API.
AI-based Taskbase Feedback Engine®
Taskbase built the world’s #1 feedback engine for learning content. Taskbase enables digital learning platforms to provide personalized formative feedback to their learners at scale while mapping the learners’ interactions to structured competencies. Get a demo or visit the showroom:
Let’s Hack
Participation is free of charge. Participants can register as individuals or as teams. We suggest a team size of 3-5. You can also take part in the hackathon as a mentor and guide teams in the process.
Join As A Team
You want to take part with your tribe? Register as a full team and show what you got.
Join As An Individual
You want to connect on site? Register as an individual and find your team at the hackathon.
Join As A Mentor
You want to support the teams with guidance and advice? Become a mentor.
Watch the Pitch& Award Ceremony
Watch 10+ teams pitching their most innovative open Language Learning Applications based on bitmark, which they have created tirelessly in the previous 24 hours.
Our dedicated Jury consisting of experts in the field of learning, edtech & culture will announce the winners of the bitmark Hackathon in the following categories:
🚀 Most Innovative | ⚡️ Most Creative | 🌍 Most Impactful
+ the winner of the "Audience Award" chosen by YOU during the live stream.
We look forward to celebrating with you 🥳
FAQ
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The goal of the hackathon is to bring together people who are excited about the future of education and the possibilities that bitmark as an open standard can bring.
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The challenge will be to build a language learning tool using bitmark in 24 hours with our imaginations as the only constraint.
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We are open to anyone joining! We have limit of 30 onsite spaces which are running out quickly but remote participation is welcome.
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No, you don’t! The hackathon is open to everyone from all backgrounds. You can either play a role as part of a team doing design or project management or you can form your own team that comes up with new applications of bitmark.