Knowledge Basket

Knowledge Basket
A good approach to develop the teaching mechanisms and environments is to use what is called the knowledge basket, just like the shopping cart, a knowledge basket is a cart the student is given the moment he enters the educational system, at first it is empty and as he grows and learns it is filled with items,
Knowledge Basket Items
These are equivalent to subjects in the casual educational system, each item has well defined set of requirements to be acquired and another set of prerequisites that must or is recommended to have before learning to acquire that item and have it in the knowledge basket.
Item Teaching
An Item can be a course of one or more semesters, with or without a lab or field experience, it can have related set of books or resources and it has a defined grading system that the student knows well.
Knowing all about the item before starting the semester better helps the student decides what is better for him to take at the time. From the first day the student would learn about freedom and decision making and know the consequences of his doings. The way items differ in their details, requirements and prerequisites even grading widens the scope of the student and enhances their abilities to better accept situations never faced before. The fact that an item can nearly be chosen at any time through the educational year, makes each student mingle with different colleagues, be part of various teams with totally diverse challenges enriching his educational experience.
Trees of items and their relations clears the view for the student, he knows what an item serves and how he can later on use it. Market would better know what is going on, they can as well improve the process through contributing to the content of them items and the relations between these items as well. The knowledge basket would provide an overall overview of the experiences, passion and capabilities of the graduate.
Transition between schools
The concept of having a knowledge basket means you never lose what you were ever taught. As you go to another school, university or college, there are weighs to whatever items you have in your knowledge basket, and by the fact that all these items are standardized and are well known through their predefined prerequisites and requirements, any new items you would have to learn in that new institution will find easily its equivalent prerequisites minimizing the need to repeatedly learn stuff already acquired before.
Universal System
If such system is adopted world wide, a student would be capable of being educationally recognized world wide by any employer or education institution, it would make the world transparent, students would know all the time how they rank across nations and governments would have real solid statistics about their reality and their expected future.
The Manual
A very important part of this system is the knowledge basket manual or guide, that guides you through all choices and alternatives you can take from first grade to graduation as well as who to consult, what schools teach which items and what markets demands which set of items.