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What is a Knowledge Avatar?

A Knowledge Avatar is your knowledge represented in a digital entity.

A Knowledge Avatar can be right here, on this Website, with a bot that helps students navigate, answers their questions, and helps students learn Socratically.

In the near future, a Knowledge Avatar may also live in a physical robot, a virtual reality world, or as an augmented reality character.

Learn how to create a Knowledge Avatar here. It's easy!

Knowledge Avatars Tell You What You're Missing

Just released a new feature of Knowledge Avatars that highlights your knowledge gaps. They tell you what you don't know.

Using Knowledge Matrix™ technology, Knowledge Avatars robot tutors can now specify which concepts are prerequisites of other concepts. This feature allows learners to immediately evaluate what they need to know to understand or master a particular topic.

Knowledge Avatars are expressive individualized robot tutors that know how to teach.

Gaming the System: EscapEDX

Man with a torch looking aty a wall in a dark dungeon.

Like most of my teachers growing up, when I started teaching in 1998, I relied heavily on practice drills and textbooks. Not surprisingly, I struggled to keep my students engaged. Why couldn't I get these kids to love learning as much as I did? Then I remembered. When I was their age, I spent most of my time daydreaming and doodling in class.

Just as I was beginning to recognize the problem, the late education luminary, Sir Ken Robinson, had already discovered the solution. As early as my first year of teaching, Robinson realized that to encourage greater engagement in schools, the world's Industrial Era teaching model would have to go. Rather than moving all students in herds on the same assembly line designed to produce compliant workers, Robinson called for personalized curricula that targeted individual interests and skills.

I soon realized that I didn't develop a love of learning until I graduated from college. Only then could I choose to learn anything I wanted on a whim, work at my own pace, pick my learning materials, or change "course" if I lost interest. Only then did I start to love learning.

The Emergence of Learning Engineering

Student sitting at a computer in a all white room with white furniture.

Learning Engineering is an emerging field that applies science, technology, and pedagogy to produce the most effective learning experience. It is an approach to teaching and learning that focuses on engineering or designing an environment to encourage, motivate, and enhance learning. Learning Engineering is student-centric and focuses on the tools, processes, and situations that a student needs to master content rather than what the institution needs to measure its progress.

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