Advancing Public Understanding, Critical Thinking & Open Knowledge Infrastructure

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A Global Public-Service Knowledge Initiative

"Education begins in wonder."

- Aristotle

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."

- Plutarch

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."

- John Dewey

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."

- H D Thoreau

"Everything is connected to everything else."

- Barry Commoner

"Education must enable people to read the world, not just the word."

- Paulo Freire

"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery."

- Mark Van Doren

"Understanding comes from relating ideas, not memorising them."

- Jerome Bruner

"An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, imagination encircles the world."

- Albert Einstein

"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind."

- Bertrand Russell

Learn More About the Foundation

What We Build

Public Knowledge Platform

We build and maintain Explanipedia.com —an open, public-service learning platform designed to strengthen critical reasoning and media literacy.

Academic Collaboration

We work with universities, researchers, and authors to translate scholarly work into accessible explanations, tools, and narrative learning modules.

Learning Tools

We develop ethical AI, VR & Web frameworks, dialectic decks, and narrative engines that transform research into engaging public content.

Community Outreach

We support cross-cultural learning initiatives that help communities navigate misinformation and complexity with clarity.

Mission & Goals

Our Mission

To strengthen critical thinking and systems thinking through accessible tools and learning pathways that help people connect ideas, understand the world more deeply, and transform how they learn.

What We Do

We curate, connect and structure ideas to reveal patterns, reduce complexity, and invite deeper exploration.

Goals

  • Make learning more stimulating and accessible.
  • Improve discoverability and public engagement with peer‑reviewed research.
  • Support teaching with critical, symbolic, narrative, and virtual inquiry tools.
  • Provide mobile‑friendly, shareable topic stories for broader accessibility.
  • Foster cross‑disciplinary exploration via concept‑linked article pathways.
  • Maintain a public‑service, open‑access ethos with transparent processes.
Foci

Explanipedia is a public service initiative against mis/dis/mal‑information combining four domains to help the public make sense of complex ideas:

Said shorter: Critique, Symbols, VR, AI Stories.

Said shortest: Spec → Sym → Sim → Sense.

All welcome. All remixable. In service of public understanding.

Higher Education: Key Priorities
  • Transnational Education (TNE)
  • Open Educational Resources (OER)
  • Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
  • Global Citizenship Education (GCE)
  • Internationalisation of Curriculum (IoC)
  • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI/EDI)
  • Work Integrated Learning (WIL)
  • Knowledge Exchange (KE)
  • Internationalisation of Education (IoE)
  • Learning & Teaching (L&T)
  • Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)
  • Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL)
  • Open Access (OA)
  • Research Data Management (RDM)
  • Digital Literacy (DL)
  • Extended/Virtual Reality (XR/VR)
  • Artificial Intelligence in Education (AI/GenAI)
  • Scholarly Communication & Public Engagement (SC/PE)
  • Accessibility & Inclusion (A&I / A11y)
  • Digital Ethics & Governance (DEG)
  • Digital Transformation & Future of Learning (DT/FL)
  • Library & Information Literacy (LIL)
  • Student Voice & Co-Creation (SVCC)
  • Digital Equity & Access (DEA)

Foundation Framework

Legal Identity & Purpose

A public-benefit educational initiative committed to advancing critical thinking, systems understanding, and open knowledge access across borders. Structured for nonprofit growth and long-term public service.

Governance & Oversight

Developing a transparent governance model with advisory guidance, ethical oversight, and clear accountability frameworks to support international academic collaboration and institutional trust.

Impact & Activities

Building platforms, tools, and research-to-public pathways that strengthen informed citizenship, media literacy, and academic engagement. Scaling activities that create measurable public-interest impact.

Programs & Initiatives

A growing suite of public-service programs: open knowledge platforms, AI narrative systems, virtual learning environments, symbolic literacy tools, and multilingual outreach networks.

Values & Commitments

Guided by openness, inclusivity, academic integrity, and public service. Focused on empowering understanding across cultures and disciplines through ethical, accessible, and transparent knowledge design.

Data Ethics & Responsible AI

Committed to responsible AI practices, privacy-respecting design, and transparent methodologies that support scholarly trust while expanding public access to complex ideas.

Partnerships & Support

Actively cultivating collaborations with universities, researchers, foundations, and community organizations. Designed for scalable partnerships that align with shared educational and societal goals.

Annual Reporting & Transparency

Establishing clear processes for documenting activities, outcomes, and progress. Future annual reports will detail initiatives, partnerships, research translation work, and public engagement achievements.

Funding & Stewardship

Developing responsible funding pathways that prioritize public benefit, sustainability, and transparent resource use. Stewardship aligned with nonprofit best practices and long-term mission continuity.

Advisory Network

Building an international advisory network across disciplines to guide research translation, educational practices, community outreach, and the ethical scaling of public-interest knowledge tools.

Accessibility & Inclusion

Committed to accessibility across devices, languages, and learning styles. Designing public-service tools that reduce barriers and expand equitable access to reliable knowledge.

Policies: Privacy & Terms

Clear, user-respecting policies for privacy, usage, and open remixing. Built on an open-knowledge ethos that values consent, transparency, and responsible public engagement.

Get in Touch

We welcome collaboration with universities, researchers, educators, students, authors, journalists, YouTube creators, foundations, public-interest organisations, and skilled individuals who want to contribute. Share your timezone and your ideas - we respond quickly and thoughtfully.

Collaboration Priorities
  • Public scholarship
  • Research impact
  • Critical thinking
  • Student engagement
  • Multimodal learning
  • Open knowledge
  • Meaningful pedagogy
  • Social justice
  • Climate futures
  • Media literacy
  • AI ethics
  • Humanities outreach
Always-On Features
  • Article pages
  • Automatic topic enrichment
  • Concept mapping
  • Dialectics module
  • Semiotics module
  • Simulacrics module
  • Narratics module
  • VR / Second-Life spaces
  • AI explanation layers
  • Dialectic Decks integration
  • Symbolic analysis tools
  • Narrative framing prompts
Collaboration Basics
  • Knowledge translation collab
  • Dept provides OpenAlex IDs
  • Public-scholarship outputs
  • Batch collections
  • Funding-first activation
  • 20:40:40 Ovhead:Uni:Explani
  • Scalable multimodal
  • Publishable case studies
  • Dept/Lab/Project only
  • Impact analytics
  • 12-24 month cycle
  • Minimal oversight
Funding Unlocks
  • Featured placement
  • Engagement activation
  • Boosted visibility
  • Scholarly papers
  • Module analytics
  • Impact analytics
  • Concept pathways
  • Narrative outputs
  • Symbolic insights
  • SIP creation
  • Public metrics
  • Department showcases
We work with departments, centres, labs, and research clusters to activate engagement around curated batches of articles. Our model is designed for scalable, meaningful impact rather than one-off requests.
Every article already has a dedicated Explanipedia page with topic enrichment, conceptual mapping, and integration into our four learning modules. Funded activations amplify visibility, deepen public understanding, and generate impact-ready analytics.
We activate articles as part of department- or project-level batches. This ensures coherence, sustainability, and strong impact metrics across a thematic or disciplinary collection.
Funding enables prioritized article promotion, structured engagement across the four modules, analytics dashboards, co-created scholarly outputs, and optional interpretive artefacts. It activates an entire engagement program using systems already in place.
A SIP (Scholarly Interpretive Piece) is a multimodal interpretive artefact—such as a poem, conceptual audio piece, symbolic montage, or short narrative loop—that translates research themes for wider audiences. SIPs are optional components of funded collaborations.
We don’t produce bespoke samples. SIPs (Scholarly Interpretive Pieces) and all advanced engagement features are created once a funded activation is underway.
Yes. Departments provide a curated list of articles via OpenAlex IDs, and we activate engagement, analytics, and optional SIPs for that selection.
Our core VR/Symbolic Learning spaces are shared environments, but we’re open to discussing deeper or custom VR collaborations. Feel free to contact us if this is of interest.
Typically just a list of OpenAlex article IDs and occasional academic guidance if needed. Explanipedia handles interpretation, engagement design, analytics, and all infrastructure.
We usually collaborate at the department, lab, or research-group level. If you are an individual academic, you're welcome to reach out—we can explore possible pathways through your institution.
Yes, and we encourage it. Embedding or linking strengthens engagement metrics and supports institutional impact reporting.
Yes. Our analytics, engagement data, interpretive outputs, and module-generated insights are designed to support institutional impact requirements across multiple frameworks.
Most activations run for 12–24 months, but we’re flexible and happy to align with your grant or departmental timeline.
Academic Collaboration Docs

Dan Weaver BSc, MRes, MSc, PhD

Education Technology • Spatiotemporal Geomatics • AI • VR

Explanipedia.org | Explanipedia.com | DrDanWeaver.com

Email: dan@explanipedia.com

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