Quiklrn : BUILDING EXCEPTIONAL LEARNING PATHS

If we teach today as we taught yesterday, then we rob our children of tomorrow- John Dewy, a 19th century American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. This sounds about right, given the present shapeshift, education is undergoing. Globally, higher education institutions are grappling with the effects of an increasingly digital world. Particularly, digitalization offers fluidity to the Indian education sector by being a supplementary form of the system as it is available to students as per their need. On the flipside, educators from all grade-levels are coming to realize the benefits of technology in the classroom.

“Digital education is not a matter of providing learning content online. There is the need to weave in learning in every aspect of day-to-day operations and bring lifelong learning as a culture in the workplace”, enlightens Rajesh Saha, Co- founder & CEO, Quiklrn. Based out of Bangalore, Quiklrn takes a better vantage point for digital education, by focusing on all aspects of the learning processes enclosing Digital Pedagogy, Support Learning and Monitoring Systems. As a platform, Quiklrn is designed to manage the learning outcome proactively by providing valuable inputs to the mentor on learning behavior data for the individual learner or group. But more importantly, the platform focuses on individualization of education and improves the engagement with the learner.

Individualized Learning for Better Learning Outcomes
Individualization of education is the center stage of focus for the Quiklrn platform. Every individual learns differently and has a preferred style. From school choice — public, private, charter, virtual — to the options available for how a student learns, education can be tailor-made to suit each individual. Adaptive learning allows students to make decisions about things like the timeframe and path of their learning. Adaptive learning technology collects information about student behaviour as the student answers the questions, and then subsequently uses that information to provide instant feedback in order to adjust the learning experience accordingly. Thus, the data is used to personalize the learning environment by providing them with differentiated and customized content, tailored to individual’s learning needs and saving the learning path taken by individual learner and retrace them whenever needed anytime, anywhere. This makes learning very focused and the learning outcomes are significantly better for every individual.

Quiklrn platform stores the learning path of an individual student, the method used to learn the topic, content read or accessed to gain deep understanding on the topic and the reference material used in different contexts. The focus of Quiklrn is way beyond just providing standardized content to every student sent by the faculty using the private store. The platform actually allows individuals to personalize the standardized content with annotations of key points, attaching reference material that was used to understand the topic and contextually saving handwritten notes as made in the classroom or during self – study. Besides, Quiklrn platform has an assessment engine which supports both formative and summative assessment. Such assessment can help to measure the understanding or progress that the student is making in the learning process. Personalized learning plans can be administered to the individual student or group of students to positively and proactively influence the learning outcome.

“21st century education system needs to be service oriented and student centric. Learning is a very personal experience. Every student’s learning is personal. No longer can an education system afford a mindset prevalent during industrial ages. Quiklrn platform captures the learning behavior data which can be effectively used to provide adaptive learning experience to every individual learner”, adds Rajesh. In order to bring in more student centricity, the AI based recommendation engine helps find relevant content based on popularity, providing assistance to the individual for deeper understanding, real life relevance and applications areas.

Teachers- The Key to the Success of any Education System
All said and understood; a teacher, most importantly must be supported with the right technology interventions to work on students for individualization of education. At the end of the day, their respect and greater fulfillment matters just as much as of students. The two important parameters that can positively affect the overall education sector are encryption services & protection of intellectual property and monetization & licensing on content.