The end of the year is typically a time for prediction posts. We have our own thoughts on what we expect the future to bring (which we will publish this week), but in this post we’ll take a look at what some of our friends are discussing about the Web. While not everyone offers a prediction for 2009, we hope their wishes for the future of the Web and their thoughts on what’s important right now inspire thought and discussion.
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The First Intelligent Social Learning Platform
What follows is a completely blatant promotion of a friend’s new product. But it is pretty brilliant!
This week, Cerego announced the North American beta launch of iKnow!, an intelligent social learning platform, at DEMOfall 08, the world’s premiere emerging technology conference.
iKnow! empowers people to learn faster, remember longer, and manage their memory for a lifetime. iKnow!’s patented learning algorithms generate personalized learning schedules that improve the absorption and recall of chunks of learning content called “items.” The algorithms are based on decades of research on optimum learning patterns in the fields of cognitive science and neuroscience. The end result is deeper learning at a faster pace.
“Research has shown that there is an optimum moment to review whatever you’re studying – at that moment right before you’re likely to forget it. The problem is that calculating this moment for a vast stream of information is far beyond the capacity of the human brain. But it’s not beyond the capacity of software. And now for the first time, we have not only the computing capacity to generate personalized learning schedules, but also a fertile venue for the creation and sharing of an infinite variety of learning content, the Web.”
- Andrew Smith Lewis, founder and chairman of Cerego
Combining cognitive science and neuroscience with the social nature of the web, iKnow! lets users remix the web for the purpose of learning. iKnow! measures memory strength and generates a personalized learning schedule optimized for each user.
Unlike other social networks, where networking itself is the goal, the iKnow! platform is a collaborative network that will allow learners all over the globe to leverage and remix content produced by the community. As a demonstration of its social learning platform, iKnow! currently offers a comprehensive set of tools and content for English speakers to study Japanese, with support for other major language pairs to follow within the year.
But that’s enough of me whittering on. See for yourself as Andrew and his partner, Eric Young , give their 6 minute product demo at DEMOfall 08.
About Cerego
Cergo’s unique approach to learning has been to bring together, within a unified system, what has previously been a broad and scattered collection of well-researched and accepted scientific principles in the fields of cognitive psychology, educational psychology, and neuroscience regarding efficient learning patterns. Through this work, Cerego has created a learning methodology that maximizes the effectiveness and efficiency of learning, memory, and performance.