🦜 Duolingo-like
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🧠 Why everything is about to become Duolingo-like
Adaptive learning is a concept we hear for 10 years but few products and organizations managed to make it work.
For example, in most companies, employee training is still done like in 2005 → watch a video, read a PDF, and then do a quiz. Yey! You now have a new skill 😐
Most progressive organizations have implemented a skills map or skills matrix where learners see relevant modules they should complete to hit a goal. But that’s just a smarter way to bundle learning resources, it’s not adaptive learning.
Duolingo is probably the first company that made true adaptive learning work at scale (to my knowledge) and it revolutionized the way we learn languages (and the way we certify language skills).
With the explosion of AI, adaptive learning is becoming dramatically simpler. A trained AI model can detect patterns for personalizing the learning path for each learner.
A few examples:
Kinnu (who just raised $6.5) is attempting to create a personalized learning engine to learn anything.
Amira Learning offers a personalized reading assistant that suggests corrections to students “in-the-moment”.
CanopyLAB offers a social learning platform enhanced by AI and they’re currently working on adaptive assessments, automated qualitative feedback, and automated grading.
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