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Learning that reaches the student who is furthest behind.
Classes are large, devices are shared and data is expensive. Teachers are stretched thin, and exam results decide futures. Tools that help here work offline, cost little and make a teacher’s day easier, not longer.
Open to every member. Join now and help shape what it builds next.
What we work on
Four problems define this community’s work right now. Every sprint, review and essay here comes back to one of them.
Tutoring and practice
Adaptive practice and AI tutoring that meet a student at their level, in their language.
Assessment
Fair, fast marking and feedback that shows a teacher where each learner is stuck.
Low-bandwidth delivery
Platforms that work on shared devices, cheap phones and expensive data.
Skills to jobs
Linking what a learner has built to work, internships and further study.
Questions we are working through
No one has settled these yet. They come up in every sprint, and members argue them out in essays and reviews.
- How do you personalise learning for a class of sixty sharing ten devices?
- Can AI tutoring help the weakest students most, instead of the strongest?
- What would make a teacher's day shorter, not longer?
From the field
No essays here yet. Members write about what actually happens on the ground, and every essay is edited before it is published. Apply to write
Your first build
New members pick one of these for their first month. Each is small enough to finish and real enough to show an employer or an investor.
An offline practice app
Adaptive maths practice that works on a shared Android phone with no data, and syncs progress weekly.
- Android
- Offline
- Learning design
A marking assistant
Suggest marks and feedback on short answers, and let the teacher accept or correct each one in a tap.
- LLMs
- Evaluation
- UX
A class progress view
Show a teacher, at a glance, which students are stuck on which skill this week.
- Data viz
- Systems
- Web
Words you will hear
New here? These come up in your first week. Plain meanings, no jargon.
- Formative assessment
- Checks during learning that show what to teach next, rather than final grades.
- Mastery learning
- Moving on once a skill is secure, instead of when the term calendar says so.
- Learning poverty
- Children unable to read and understand a simple text by age ten.
- Zero-rating
- An arrangement where a mobile network does not charge for data used on certain sites.
Who you will meet
- Engineers building learning platforms
- Teachers, lecturers and instructional designers
- Founders in tutoring and skills
- Education researchers
How the community runs
- Every week
Build sprint
Bring a real problem from your work in the sector. Leave with progress, reviewed by people who have shipped the same thing.
- Every week
Office hours
Drop in with a model that will not converge, a regulator question or a hiring decision. Practitioners answer.
- Every month
Demo day
Members show working systems to the community, mentors and invited investors. Demos, not decks.
The team behind it
Lead the Edtech community
We are looking for experienced practitioners to lead this community: host one session a month, review members’ work and shape what it builds next.
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