iKnow! An Open learning Platfrom, makes Language Learning Social and Open to 188 Languages
Do you want to interact with the world in their own language? If you are willing to gain knowledge of more than one language, then you should probably visit iKnow! launched by a company called Cerego, which gives you a new adaptive learning system for English speakers who want to learn a new language.
The iKnow! platform currently offers comprehensive tools and content for learning both English and Japanese, with support for other major language pairs to follow. These tools allow users to create learning modules in 188 languages of study and then collaborate with other users to make corrections, add additional items and discuss the process.
There are also courses, although right now they are limited to English and Japanese, that let you study terms but it’s not restricted to just those two – iKnow! can support any language. That’s because iKnow is an open learning platform, starting with languages and progressing to any content domain.
iKnow! platform is already very popular with its 340 thousand of registered users. These users are rather active on the platform as well: for example, last month they spent over 16 million minutes (or 270 thousand hours) learning on iKnow! and mastered over 20 million language learning items.
When a user creates a language item he or she wants to learn and remember, iKnow! will offer possible matches from its own data base as translations for these items. If iKnow fails to find a match in the existing data base, it will try to retrieve a meaning to suggest to the user from the Google’s Language API.
The service is still in its beta phase, but absolutely free. What it promises is really impressive. The idea of a social learning platform has possibilities beyond just language and it will be exciting to see where this type of technology leads us in the future.
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