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Project 1: Duolingo
1. Project Carriers: After being developed by Luis Von Ahn and Severin Hacker and their group of collaborators, Duolingo is now based in four offices around the world, with a lot of different profiles (Education, Marketing, Design…).
2. Beneficiaries: Everybody, whether it is adults, young adults, students, as long as they know how to read and use the app and the website.
3. Users: Since the one using duolingo is the one learning, the users are the same persons as beneficiaries
4. Need: The project is answering to the need of learning new languages, in a growing multicultural world to facilitate exchanges between different people.
5. Principle: The project is offering personalized language courses thanks to algorithms which are designed to calculate one’s level in a language. This way, it is easier to stay motivated, learning becomes a game dans everyone can use this website, from all around the world
6. Main technologies involved: Website, apps, algorithms
7. Sources: https://www.duolingo.com/info
Project 2: Aprendices visuales
1. Project Carriers: Miriam Reyes and Amélie Mariage are the two people carrying this project, with the help of a group of collaborators.
2. Beneficiaries: The ones benefitting from this project first are kids from all around the world. It Is an inclusive project, which at first was made thinking of children with autism, but it turned out that the project can benefit all kids. Then, adults also benefit from this. It helps them develop new skills and new way to educate kids and others. This way, they can acquire soft skills helping them to be more open to the different existing ways of learning.
3. Users: The main users are kids, but it has been developed in order to train people such as teachers or families to learn how educate children through a more visual learning.
4. Need: The project is answering to the need of learning new languages, in a growing multicultural world to facilitate exchanges between different people.
5. Principle: The project is offering courses based on images for children to learn more easily, and training for adults to make them more familiar with this learning technique, and understand better different ways of learning.
6. Main technologies involved: Website, videos
7. Sources: https://aprendicesvisuales.com/p/nosotros/
Project 3: Codeacademy
1. Project Carriers: A large team of people based in New York, with very various profiles such as Software Engineer, IT Specialist, Brand Designer.
2. Beneficiaries: It is designed to be accessible for everyone (not for children of course)
3. Users: The users are the same as the beneficiaries
4. Need: The project's goal is to allow as much people as possible to develop skills needed in the 21st century. Indeed, with the growing use of technologies, knowing how to use those tools is really valued.
5. Principle: The project is offering online courses, accessible for everyone, concerning different softwares. For example, one can learn about Python, JavaScript, Excel, and other things. Moreover, it tries to motivate people through articles, and videos about those subjects. It creates a real community, allowing people to ask questions on a forum or to chat, which helps keeping them involved.
6. Main technologies involved: Website, videos
7. Sources: https://www.codecademy.com/
Project 4: Khan Academy
1. Project Carriers: Sal, the founder and CEO, and his team, with a lot of different firms sponsoring them.
2. Beneficiaries: Available for people of all ages
3. Users: Available for people of all ages
4. Need: It tries to answer to a lack of personalized learning, allowing everyone to study at their own pace
5. Khan Academy offers practice exercises, lesson videos and a learning platform that allows students to learn at their own pace, in and out of the classroom. The subjects, diverse and varied, range from maths to the history of art. The assignments we offer guide students according to their needs, thanks to state-of-the-art algorithms, capable of identifying the strengths and weaknesses of each
6. Main technologies involved: Website, videos
7. Sources: https://www.khanacademy.org/about