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Collective Learning AI

Where expertise lives, and grows.

Collective minds. Individual futures.

Expert VillageAcademy

Two platforms powered by a village of AI expert agents, delivering personalised career development, interactive upskilling courses, and deep AI literacy at any scale.

Building on Macquarie University’s innovation ecosystem, in partnership with the Centre of Applied Artificial Intelligence.

Macquarie UniversityApplied AI Research Centre, Macquarie University

See it in action

Watch the platform work.

A ten-minute walkthrough of Expert Village, Academy, and the profile that ties them together — no form, no call.

Platform walkthrough · ~10 min video

Expert Village

A village of experts, always ready.

The village is not just a product. It is the intelligence layer beneath everything — a living knowledge graph, continuously updated, shared by every expert and accessible by every learner.

Computer science is our first village. The same model — resident experts on a shared knowledge graph — is expanding to further fields.

When your career path crosses disciplines, your User DNA travels with you. Every expert you speak with sees the same evolving profile, so the guidance you get stays consistent across domains.

Consider a learner moving toward machine learning engineering: the data science expert probes modelling judgement, the data engineering expert covers pipelines and reliability, the backend engineering expert weighs architecture trade-offs, and the cybersecurity expert checks secure habits — one connected picture of the same career.

All seven residents are live today, in the computer science village.

  • Agent resident

    Data science

    Modelling, statistics, and reasoning over messy data.

  • Agent resident

    Data analytics

    SQL, dashboards, and the story in the numbers.

  • Agent resident

    Data engineering

    Pipelines and the systems that move data reliably.

  • Agent resident

    Cybersecurity

    Threat thinking and secure habits under pressure.

  • Agent resident

    UI/UX design

    Design decisions and evidence from real users.

  • Agent resident

    Backend engineering

    APIs, architecture, and production trade-offs.

  • Agent resident

    Machine learning

    Model choices and applied ML judgement.

  • Matching guide

    Mentor match

    Not sure where to start? A short conversation routes you to the right expert.

Concept illustration of the Expert Village: themed domain villages arranged around a central shared knowledge graph
Concept illustration — the computer science village is live today; further villages are on the roadmap.

What we do

Three pillars of collective intelligence.

01

Career development

Personalised pathway mapping across disciplines and seniority levels. Expert Village identifies where you are, where you want to go, and how to get there — grounded in a curated knowledge graph and your evolving User DNA.

02

Upskilling on demand

Evidence-backed skill-gap analysis across Knowledge, Skills, and Creativity. Interactive courses delivered by expert agents, personalised to your pace, goals, and available time — with an expert agent always available to answer.

03

AI literacy

Understanding AI is foundational for every profession. Our agents build AI literacy alongside domain expertise — concepts, critical evaluation, and practical application — so every learner navigates an AI-enabled world with confidence.

How it works

The village at work, for you.

Every interaction with the village is grounded in structured knowledge, personalised to your evidence-backed capability profile, and explainable at every step. The two platforms work together.

Your career plan shapes what Academy recommends. Every course you complete updates your career profile. The loop never stops.

  1. Build your User DNA

    Your professional profile is constructed across Knowledge, Skills, and Creativity — evidence-backed, timestamped, and evolving as you grow. Not a static profile but a living biography, shared with every expert you speak with.

  2. Meet your expert agents

    Role-specific AI agents, each a subject-matter expert in its domain, draw on the shared knowledge graph to deliver personalised, grounded guidance — and your profile follows you between experts.

  3. Learn with interactive courses

    Take structured courses delivered by expert agents in Academy. Ask about the content, your study schedule, or how a skill connects to your career at any moment — the agent responds with answers tailored to you.

  4. Grow the collective

    Every course you complete, every skill you demonstrate, and every assessment you pass updates your User DNA — sharpening the guidance and recommendations you get next.

Our products

Two platforms. One collective intelligence.

Both products share a single underlying intelligence: the Expert Village knowledge graph and a shared network of AI expert agents. Together they cover career growth and professional upskilling end to end.

Product 01

Expert Village

A persistent ecosystem of AI expert agents — each a resident subject-matter expert — backed by a provenance-aware, time-evolving knowledge graph. Personalised career pathway mapping, skill-gap analysis, and capability views for individuals, teams, and universities.

  • One shared career-capability knowledge graph beneath every conversation

  • Role-specific expert personas grounded in real domains

  • Time-aware User DNA tracking your professional growth

  • Explainable skill-gap analysis with confidence-scored recommendations

  • Coach console for team capability views

Explore Expert Village

Product 02

Academy

An interactive platform where Expert Village agents deliver structured upskilling and career-development courses, fully interactive throughout each session. Ask about content, your schedule, or how a skill connects to your career — the agent knows you and responds accordingly.

  • Structured courses delivered by AI subject-matter agents

  • Real-time interaction during lessons — any question, any time

  • Content, study planning, career alignment, and cross-domain links

  • Personalised pace and sequence from your User DNA

  • Completion evidence fed back to your profile

Explore Academy

Academy

Not a course. A conversation.

Academy delivers structured courses with modules, progress tracking, and completion evidence — with a live, interactive AI tutor beside every lesson, not just a video player.

Ask anything, at any moment, during the session. The tutor is grounded in the lesson you are studying and its domain — and every course you complete writes evidence back to your User DNA, so the platform’s guidance keeps getting more yours.

Content questions

Clarify concepts, go deeper on any topic, or ask for real-world examples mid-lecture.

Study planning

Structure your weekly schedule, manage deadlines, and pace your progress.

Career alignment

Ask how the course topic connects to the roles you are exploring.

Cross-domain links

Explore how this topic connects to other fields — the agent bridges disciplines.

Human-centred AI · Module 3 of 8 — Cognitive load in interface design
Professor Amin Beheshti, your course mentor

Your mentor

Delivering lecture · Module 3 of 8

“Cognitive load theory, developed by John Sweller, proposes that our working memory has a limited capacity. In interface design, every visual element, interaction step, and piece of text competes for the same finite cognitive resource. Good design manages this load deliberately…”

38% complete · Module 3 / 8

Ask anything

You · Content

How does this connect to transformer attention from the data science module?

Your mentor

Great connection — both describe limited processing capacity from different angles. Transformer attention is computational; cognitive load is biological. Section 3.4 links them well for your UX context.

You · Study planning

I only have four hours this week. What is most critical for my UX role?

Your mentor

Focus on sections 3.2 and 3.4 — they directly address interaction-design work. Skip 3.3 for now; it matters more for researchers at a later stage.

Illustrative example — demonstration data.

Watch a real lecture

Sample lecture — Introduction to AI · Prof. Amin Beheshti

User DNA

A professional persona that grows with you.

Your User DNA is not a snapshot. It is a time-aware, evidence-backed record of your capability across knowledge, skills, and creativity. Not a static profile — a living professional biography.

It is shared between Expert Village and Academy: every assessment you complete, every course you finish, and every skill you demonstrate updates it — and every expert you speak with sees the same evolving picture, for as long as you keep learning.

How a profile evolves

One example profile, at two moments.

After a first assessment

Knowledge51%
Skills34%
Creativity66%

After more learning

Knowledge72%
Skills58%
Creativity81%

Example profile — demonstration data.

The best expert answers your question.
The best village answers your career.

Collective Learning AI · Collective minds. Individual futures.

About

About Collective Learning

Collective Learning AI is a career-intelligence and interactive-learning company building on Macquarie University’s innovation ecosystem, in partnership with the Centre of Applied Artificial Intelligence.

Its two products share one knowledge graph: Expert Village, where AI personas assess capability across Knowledge, Skills, and Creativity — and Academy, whose interactive courses feed completion evidence back into each learner’s profile.

Governance and contact

For procurement, security, or partnership questions: contact@collectivelearning.ai

Level 1, 3 Innovation Road, Macquarie Park NSW 2113

Flagship program

Responsible AI and data governance for leaders and builders.

Organisations and universities are scaling AI across operations, teaching, and customer touchpoints just as Australian regulatory expectations take shape. That creates two practical needs: governance literacy for accountable leaders, and audit-ready delivery habits for the teams building AI systems.

Our hybrid program builds both. Developed with Macquarie University, it pairs structured e-learning with expert-agent-led workshops, customised to your organisation’s own policies, frameworks, and documents in sessions with your subject-matter experts. Most recently, it was delivered for a major Australian telco.

  • Course questions answered by expert AI mentors at any hour, throughout the program.

  • Workshops that produce working artefacts — risk registers, model cards, evidence packs, and red-team plans.

The program at a glance

4 weeks

Hybrid — e-learning and workshops

5–7 hours

A week, per track

AI and data leaders

Strategy and governance literacy for the people accountable for AI decisions.

AI and data builders

Technical delivery and audit readiness for the people shipping AI systems.

E-learning grounded in academic literature, ISO 27001, 42001, and 42005, and Australian policy. Workshops run on scenario simulation and your own case studies.

Join the village.

Collective minds. Individual futures.

Bring Expert Village and Academy to your organisation or university — we’ll walk you through the platform on your own use case.

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