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Beginner Awards: Social impact
Syrtis
Solution details
Syrtis is an AI-driven Teacher-as-a-Software (TaaS) platform that offers personalized, adaptive digital learning. Syrtis can interface with any IT system.
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Syrtis is an AI-powered "Teacher-as-a-Software" platform that delivers personalized, adaptive learning experiences for students and employees. With real-time feedback, dynamic pedagogy and insights to enhance engagement and skill development. #EdTech #AI #AdaptiveLearning
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Context
Traditional learning and training systems often fail to meet individual needs, leading to disengagement and inconsistent results. Corporate training struggles to deliver actionable skills, while education systems lack the scalability for personalized attention. This limitation hampers the ability to provide quality education to a broader audience, affecting societal progress and equal access to learning opportunities. Customer education tools are often too generic, impacting satisfaction and retention.
Syrtis addresses these issues with an autonomous teaching-as-a-software solution. By combining AI with structured pedagogy, it delivers personalized feedback, adaptive learning paths, and real-time insights at scale. This scalability enables organizations and educational institutions to reach more learners effectively, promoting societal benefits like improved workforce competence and educational equity. By making personalized education scalable, Syrtis ensures efficient, engaging, and impactful knowledge transfer, contributing to a more educated and skilled society.
Who Benefits?
Syrtis targets learners, educators, organizations, and society.
Learners receive personalized, adaptive learning tailored to their needs and pace, leading to better engagement and outcomes.
Educators can scale personalized instruction without extra workload. Syrtis provides real-time insights into learner progress, allowing them to focus on impactful teaching.
Organizations benefit from more effective training that enhances skills and productivity, saving time and resources while achieving measurable results.
Society gains from scalable quality education, promoting equity and accessibility. By reaching a broader audience, Syrtis contributes to a more educated workforce and society, driving innovation and growth.
Overall, Syrtis enhances the effectiveness and reach of education and training, ensuring all stakeholders benefit from improved learning experiences and outcomes.
Impact
Syrtis benefits learners, educators, organizations, and society by scaling personalized education. It improves learning outcomes through adaptive instruction, leading to higher engagement and success rates. Organizations enhance employee skills and productivity, improving performance and ROI on training. Educators reach more students without extra workload, promoting educational equity.
On a societal level, Syrtis contributes to a more educated workforce, fueling innovation and economic growth. By removing barriers to quality education, it fosters social development and equal opportunities.
Measurement of Impact
- Learning Outcomes: Improvements in test scores, skills, and completion rates.
- Engagement Metrics: Monitoring learner interaction with the platform.
- Scalability Data: Number of learners reached while maintaining quality.
- Organizational KPIs: Increases in productivity and ROI on training.
- Societal Indicators: Metrics like access to education and employment rates.
Team work
Our team is a mix of experts and developers and ML engineers, working together to push IT R&D forward. We're focusing on innovative data management by combining traditional databases with vector capabilities and graph databases. This approach helps us handle complex educational data efficiently, allowing our AI to deliver highly personalized learning experiences.
Since AI in education is a hot topic, we're collaborating with a university lab from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). This partnership boosts our research and keeps us connected with the latest academic ideas. Together, we're aiming to transform education with AI.
Looking ahead, we plan to refine our technology and scale the solution globally. We'll keep investing in R&D to stay on top of AI and data management tech, ensuring that Syrtis remains cutting-edge and meets the evolving needs of learners, educators, and organizations.
Innovativeness
Syrtis offers an autonomous teaching-as-a-software solution combining advanced AI and structured pedagogy to deliver personalized education at scale. Its unique API distribution enables seamless integration with existing systems.
Traditional e-learning platforms use a rule-based approach with predefined pathways and static content that adapt minimally to learners, limiting personalization. In contrast, Syrtis employs advanced AI to create dynamic, real-time learning paths tailored to individual progress.
While some platforms offer basic adaptive learning, to the best of our knowledge, none combine advanced AI-driven personalization with an API distribution model serving learners, educators, and organizations simultaneously.
By bridging personalization with scalability beyond rule-based systems, Syrtis introduces a novel paradigm in education and training, making it highly innovative in today's market.
Transferability
Syrtis is highly transferable and can be applied across diverse education and training contexts. Its modular architecture, powered by AI and delivered via API, allows easy adaptation to various disciplines, industries, and learning environments. Additionally, Syrtis supports distribution through messaging systems like WhatsApp, Slack, Teams, and others, enabling seamless integration into platforms that users already engage with daily.
The system’s core components—adaptive learning paths, personalized feedback, and real-time insights—are universally applicable. In corporate training, Syrtis addresses skills development, compliance, and onboarding. In formal education, it supports personalized teaching across subjects from STEM to the arts. For customer education, it enhances product knowledge through tailored learning experiences.
Sustainability
Our plan emphasizes long-term viability and minimal environmental impact. We'll initially deploy Syrtis via API integration and messaging platforms like WhatsApp, Slack, and Teams for immediate scalability without extra infrastructure.
In the mid and long term, we aim to enhance Syrtis's AI while prioritizing sustainability by using smaller, specialized models instead of large, generic ones. This minimizes energy consumption, aligning with UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13: Climate Action, and supports other SDGs like SDG 4: Quality Education and SDG 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure.
We also prioritize data privacy and security by adhering to strict data protection standards, ensuring user information is secure and promoting responsible technology use.
By focusing on sustainable AI practices and data privacy, and developing our platform with an "SDG-by-design" approach, Syrtis aims to be a lasting, positive force in global education and training.