Provide easy access to learning in-demand skills

Project 3: Knewton

What is Knewton:

Knewton is an adaptive learning companythat has developed a platform to personalize educational content as well as has developed courseware for higher education concentrated in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Who are the carriers of the project:

The universities pay a license in order to access to Knewton algorithms ($100/month for each student using the platform)

Who are the beneficiaries?

The universities, including professors who become more efficient.

Who are the users?

The students are the finale users. Recently, the company has made a patnership with Pearson, thus enabling more than 5 million students to use Pearson's pedagogical content made "smart" by Knewton.

What is the need for this project to be?

Univerties use Knewton in order to prevent students from dropping out college and therefore maintaining their scholar fees, moreover univerties save money and time by not recruting correctors thanks to Knewton. One example is the Arizona univerty which has reduced its drop out rate by 54% using Knewton.

What is the principle?

In order to improve students perfomances, the online exercises can be reviewed by professors, and the results can be analysed so that struggling points can be fixed by regrouping students into special classes.

What are the main technologies involved?

Knewton has tailored its learning framework to the requirements of individual students, offering personalized courses in LSAT, GMAT, and SAT. This API enables programmers to access Knewton's own data for other apps and systems, such as marking and teaching procedures that can adjust to the demands or needs of students.