MagniLearn uses AI to help students learn new languages
Learning a language is never easy, so it is no surprise that there are many startups looking to make students' lives easier. While some mainly focus on individual learners and bypass school systems, others try to get into schools and work with them.
One of the latest players in this market is MagniLearn, an AI-focused startup that offers students individual lessons based on their progress. In October 2021, the Israeli startup announced that it had raised $2.8 million in a seed round from OurCrowd's incubator Labs/02, Indian company Reliance Industries, the Israel Innovation Authority and a number of private investors.
“Thanks to our precise personalization, which allows students to develop and fully realize their potential, no two students' lessons will ever be identical. Lessons evolve as learners progress, thanks to our AI algorithms that dynamically create exercises in real time. Exercises are set at the right level to give each student a worthy challenge and make the most of their time. The algorithms understand every part of the student's answer and provide precise feedback in their native language”
The service currently has users in Japan, Korea and Israel, but Tokus says the company plans to use the new funding to expand its presence in the Asia-Pacific region. For now, MagniLearn's product focuses on teaching English.
"English is the language of science, technology, medicine, and the key to unlocking a wide range of opportunities in today's global world. MagniLearn coordinates with schools around the world, enabling them to efficiently and quickly boost productivity with a customizable and personalized online English learning platform that teaches and guides students to the highest level of English proficiency," the company's website says.
The company argues that the coronavirus pandemic has caused serious damage to the school system. Tokus said MagniLearn does not seek to replace language teachers.
“We want nothing less than to empower teachers and students with personalized analytics to maximize learning effectiveness. This will open up opportunities for students around the world who need English to join the global economy, double their income and secure a better future for themselves and their families”
MagniLearn is a hybrid, effective English learning platform. It is built on a flexible content model that can easily adapt to any school curriculum and automatically create lessons in real time that match each learner's strengths and weaknesses.
MagniLearn's unique linguistic engine dynamically generates individual online lessons made up of free-form exercises for each student, based on their English proficiency level and in line with the school's curriculum. Students become active learners, receiving precise feedback that continuously improves their performance.
The language platform was created by academic experts in natural language processing, artificial intelligence, cognition, linguistics and education from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The advanced technology can be adapted to any native language and to the goals of any school.
MagniLearn's advantages:
- a unique personal knowledge map for each student
- dynamically generated real-time online lessons
- active individual free-form exercises
- precise and engaging real-time feedback
- full integration with the school curriculum
Teachers also benefit, as the platform can provide key insights, a full report and tracking of student results based on their data while complying with student data privacy policies. The company claims that 94.4% of students would be happy to study English with MagniLearn as part of their school program, and 100% of parents whose children used the platform would recommend using it as part of the school curriculum.
Notably, in July 2021, Microsoft Israel selected MagniLearn to make an impact in education. The company chose the platform as the most promising EdTech startup innovation. MagniLearn's intelligent learning algorithms can teach any subject that is verbal and topic-based.
Raz Bachar, head of industry development for startups in Israel at Microsoft, said: "We were impressed by how MagniLearn uses artificial intelligence and natural language processing to personalize lessons for students according to their individual level and needs. This is another example of how AI can change the world for the better."
Microsoft's goal is to promote promising startups with a transformative vision of how to make the world better and that use AI capabilities to do so.
