Zzish Ltd - An open platform for social mobile learning

Many children are not motivated to learn as they find studying boring and see no direct resultfrom the effort that they put in. On the other hand leading social mobile games use cleversocial game dynamics and rich data and analytics to motivate players to keep playing andimprove. Adding such features to apps is difficult, time consuming and expensive andalthough platforms exist to make this easier for independent developers of mobile games, there are no platforms that fill the needs of developers of mobile educational apps specificallyand serve that market well. The result is that the vast majority of educational apps are singleperson, client-only experiences, which are not very engaging for students and thus do not fullyachieve their overall goal to improve the learning experience and learning success of students.Zzish is developing an open social mobile education platform to enable any educationalmobile app developer to add connected, social, analytics and personalised learning features totheir apps in days that would otherwise take them many months to implement. The platformconsists of an API and SDK (with five modules, Content, User, Gamification, PersonalLearning and Analytics and Monetization), an end user interface, our Learning Centre, forstudents, teachers and parents to view their learning results and a reference app, Factzz, thatillustrates use of the platform and delivers personalised, adaptive learning.Students of all ages will benefit from improved engagement and motivation and thusimproved learning as a result of better education apps. Teachers and parents will benefit frombeing able to access richer analytics and personalised learning across many more apps.Existing educational app developers will be able to make their apps more engaging forstudents and more informative for teachers and parents and new app developers, big andsmall, will create innovative new educational apps as a result of lower costs to delivering suchapps.