enables higher-ed institutions to provide educators and learners with an active, social, collaborative, inclusive and engaging learning experience." We discuss:
Dan Avida, CEO |
- Background of founders including Dan's wife Daphne Koller,
co-founder of Coursera - Works in class or online (synchronous or asynchronous) and hybrid
- No need for breakout rooms
- Student "table" with the group of peers: "Learn with Friends"
- Students can talk at the same time as the instructor
- In-class students log in so they can take notes and capture instructors screen
- In-class student presses button to ask questions - other mics are muted
- Polls and quizzes embedded into presentations
- Recordings, notetaking, captioning built into the platform
- Integrated with the LMS using LTI
- Works with Chromebooks - no app to download
- Video is not re-streamed
- Supports thousands of students in a class using TAs
- Extensive analytics to detect students at risk
- AI and ML coming in a future release
- Podsafe music selection
- Hachiko by The Kyoto Connection
Duration: 40:15