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EduTech >> Esme Learning ? Former Pearson, edX Exec Raises $7.5M to Build AI-Powered Digital Courseware

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2021-01-26-former-pearson-edx-exec-raises-7-5m-to-build-ai-powered-digital-courseware

 

Former Pearson, edX Exec Raises $7.5M to Build AI-Powered Digital Courseware - EdSurge News

The demand for innovative digital learning technology has never been higher. And investment continues to flow into the edtech space. But companies ...

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Esme Learning Solutions ๋Š” ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ํ•™์Šต ๊ฒฝํ—˜, ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋งŽ์€ ๋Œ€ํ•™๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„์— ์˜์กดํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Esme์˜ ๊ณต๋™ ์„ค๋ฆฝ์ž ์ค‘ ํ•œ๋ช…์ธ Porter๋Š” EdX์™€ Pearson์—์„œ vice president๋ฅผ ํ–ˆ๋˜ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ Porter๊ฐ€ edX์—์„œ ์ผ์„ ํ•  ๋•Œ MIT์˜ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ํ•™์ƒ์˜ 3ํผ์„ผํŠธ๋งŒ์ด ํ•™์Šต๊ณผ์ •์„ ๋๋‚ธ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•œ๋‹ค.

์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ๋ณด์™„ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด Esme๋Š” ํ•™์ƒ์˜ ์ฐธ์—ฌ์™€ ํ•™์Šต ๊ณผ์ • ์ปจํ…์ธ ์˜ ์งˆ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์‹œํ‚ด์œผ๋กœ์จ, ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ํ•™์Šต์˜ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์„ ๋” ๋ณ€ํ™˜์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ ์ž ํ•œ๋‹ค. Esme wants to transform the effectiveness of online learning, increasing both student engagement and the quality of course content

  • ์ด ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋Š” ํ˜„์žฌ ์˜ฅ์Šคํผ๋“œ ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ณผ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜์—ฌ cybersecurity, fintech and blockchain์— ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ์ˆ˜์—…์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ฑ„์šฉ์€ ์ปค๋ฆฌํ˜๋Ÿผ, ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…, development ์œ„์ฃผ๋กœ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ AI์˜ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์€ Esme๊ฐ€ ์ข€ ๋” ๊ฐœ๋ณ„ํ™”๋œ ํ•™์Šต์ž์˜ ํ•„์š”๋ฅผ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ํ•™์Šต ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋„๋ก ๋„์šธ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.
  • Shrier ๋Š” traiditonal modes of online learning์„ "Bad television"์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฌ˜์‚ฌํ•œ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ Esme๊ฐ€ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ experience genuinely interactive, ์ฆ‰ ์ƒํ˜ธ์ž‘์šฉ์ด ์ •๋ง ํ™œ๋ฐœํ•œ ํ•™์Šต ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ด๊ณ  ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ artificial intelligence agents and coaches ์ฆ‰ ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ฐ์ฒด ๋˜๋Š” ์ฝ”์น˜๋“ค์„ ๋งŒ๋“ ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ํˆฌ์ž์ž๋“ค์„ ๋Œ์–ด์˜ค๋Š” ์ด์œ ์ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜๋‹ค. 

์ฝ”๋กœ๋‚˜ ์‚ฌํƒœ๋Š” MOOC ๋“ฑ๋ก์„ ๋” ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”์‹œ์ผฐ๊ณ , ๊ณ„์†๋˜๋Š” ์ธ๋ ฅ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ์˜ ์••๋ฐ•์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด upskilling, reskilling์€ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์ทจ์—… ๋ถ„์•ผ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๋กœ์งˆ๋Ÿฌ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ณ ๋ ค ์š”์†Œ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์žฌ๋‚œ์ด ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ํ•™์Šต์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์ธ ์ˆ˜์š”์— ๊ด€ํ•ด์„œ ์ด๋ฏธ ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋˜ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ  ๊ธฐ์กด์˜ ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ํ•™์Šต ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์˜ ๊ฒฐ์ ๋“ค์„ ๊ฐ•์กฐ์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Shrier์— ์˜ํ•˜๋ฉด '์ƒํ˜ธ์ž‘์šฉ[interaction]'๊ณผ '์กฐํ™”[collaboration]'์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์˜ ๊ฐ•์กฐ๊ฐ€ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ํ‚ค๊ฐ€ ๋œ๋‹ค. ์™œ๋ƒํ•˜๋ฉด "์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ํ•™์Šต์€ ๋งค์šฐ ์™ธ๋กœ์šด ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค[online learning can be a really lonely experience].

Esme์˜ class๋“ค์€ ์‹ค์ œ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ์‹œ๋‚˜๋ฆฌ์˜ค๋กœ ๊พธ๋ฉฐ๋‚ธ ์ž‘์€ ๊ทธ๋ฃน ํ™œ๋™๋“ค๋กœ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ•œ๋ช…์˜ ๊ฐ•์—ฐ์ž๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ 30-50๋ช… ์ •๋„์˜ ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๋“ค๋กœ ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๊ฐ•์˜๋ฅผ ๋“ค์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ํ•™์ƒ ๊ทธ๋ฃน๋“ค์ด ํ•™์Šต ์ž๋ฃŒ๋“ค์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์šธ ๋•Œ 'AI coaches'์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐœ๋ณ„ํ™”๋œ ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๋Š”๋‹ค.๋˜ํ•œ ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์˜ ํ•™์Šต ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๊ทน๋Œ€ํ™”์‹œํ‚ค๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ ์ •๊ธฐ์ ์ธ teaching staff์™€์˜ ์ƒํ˜ธ์ž‘์šฉ๋„ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Esme๋Š” AI features์— ๊ด€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” 2021๋…„๋„์— ๋” ๋ฐœํ‘œํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•œ๋‹ค.

“AI does not have to be your foe,” Shrier said. “AI can actually be your friend and help assist you. And this is really what we aspire to. A combination of people and AI together can do things that AI cannot do alone and people can't do alone. And that’s an exciting area that we spend a lot of time on.”
"์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ํ•™์Šต์—์„œ ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด์•ผ ๋  ์ ์€ ์–‘์งˆ์˜ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ  ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ƒํ˜ธ์ž‘์šฉ์ด ํ™œ๋ฐœํ•œ ํ•™์Šต๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ! ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ํ•™์Šตํ™˜๊ฒฝ์—์„œ์˜ ์ƒํ˜ธ์ž‘์šฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์™€ ๋”๋ถˆ์–ด ์ƒํ˜ธ์ž‘์šฉ์„ ํ™œ์„ฑํ™”ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๐Ÿงš๐Ÿป‍โ™€๏ธAI agent๐Ÿงš๐Ÿป‍โ™€๏ธ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ !"

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