Contribute

Share your knowledge. Help build sovereign education.

What We Need

Education Engine is built by people who care about honest education. If you are an educator, parent, subject expert, or lifelong learner, you can contribute in several ways.

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Lesson Content

Write questions, scenarios, stories, or explanations for any age band. Education Engine's format is simple: a question, choices, an explanation, and a hint. You don't need to code.

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Standards Alignment

Help map existing topics to Common Core, state standards, or international curriculum frameworks. Each mapping helps educators justify using Education Engine in formal settings.

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Fact Checking

Review existing lessons for accuracy, clarity, and age-appropriateness. Flag anything that needs correction. Rigor matters more than speed.

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Translation

Education Engine currently serves English-language content. Translating lessons into other languages extends access to communities that need it most.

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Subject Expertise

The adult layer is expanding into sound, frequency, music history, building techniques, Tesla, land stewardship, and food sovereignty. Deep knowledge in these areas is especially valuable.

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Bug Reports

Found a broken question, a wrong answer, a layout issue, or a confusing explanation? Report it. Every fix improves the experience for every learner.

Topic Format

Each topic in Education Engine has a consistent structure that supports four learning styles. Here's what a contributed topic includes:

Visual block: An emoji or illustration with a short caption. This is shown to learners who choose "Show Me."

Reading block: A paragraph or short passage explaining the concept. This is shown to learners who choose "Let Me Read."

Steps: A numbered list breaking the concept into sequential steps. This is shown to learners who choose "Step by Step."

Questions: Each question has a prompt, 3–4 answer choices, the correct answer index, an explanation (shown after answering), a hint (shown on request), and optionally a fun fact. Hands-on questions also include typed-answer alternatives.

You do not need to write code. You can contribute content as plain text, and we will format it into the system. If you are comfortable with JSON, the content pack format accepts topics as JSON files that the engine loads automatically.

How to Submit

Email your contribution to contribute@educationengine.org with the subject line: Contribution: [Age Band] — [Topic Name]

Include the age band (K, Elem 1–3, Upper Elem, Middle, High, Adult), the subject area, and your content in whatever format is comfortable for you. Plain text, markdown, or a document — we will work with it.

Licensing: By contributing, you agree that your content will be released under the same open license as Education Engine (license being finalized — will be Creative Commons or equivalent). You retain credit as the author.

Review process: All contributions are reviewed for accuracy, age-appropriateness, and alignment with Education Engine's principles before inclusion. We will communicate with you during the review and credit you in the content.

Content Standards

Education Engine has strict content standards. Contributed content must:

  • ✔ Be factually accurate and cite sources where applicable
  • ✔ Be age-appropriate for the target age band
  • ✔ Restore the capacity to think, not replace it
  • ✔ Be free of advertising, product placement, or promotional content
  • ✔ Be your original work or properly attributed public domain / CC content
  • ✔ Acknowledge uncertainty honestly (say what is known, inferred, and speculative)
  • No content that manipulates, deceives, or uses dark patterns
  • No content that requires external tracking services or accounts

Every lesson contributed is a lesson available to every learner on Earth, for free, forever.