Learning Yogi is taking the best elements of video games, teaching, parenting and artificial intelligence and combining that with the magical power of storytelling to create an epic, first-of-its-kind product called the Atlas Mission.
Our mission is to ensure that every child, anywhere in the world, across all age groups, and regardless of ability to pay, gets access to a high quality of education by playing with the Atlas Mission.
The Atlas Mission will help children across different age-groups master core curricular and age-appropriate skills in:
In addition, it will also help them master non-curricular 21st century skills like:
The Atlas Mission platform contains a personalization engine that constantly tracks an individual user’s unique learning requirements and skill levels with respect to different competencies.
Using what it has learned about the user, the platform automatically customizes the content that is being presented to him or her.
This ensures that the content being presented is always at a slightly higher level of difficulty than what the user is currently comfortable with, but not so difficult that it is completely inaccessible to him or her.
Kids (and generally, all human beings) are hard-wired for stories.
The Atlas Mission is therefore driven by a rich narrative that takes the child through a series of interlinked adventures and games, with each game designed to teach a specific skill or competency to the child.
Our narrative-driven structure builds emotional attachment with children. It also exposes them to different places around the world and to different cultures, thus improving their general knowledge and awareness of the world that they live in.
The Atlas Mission has been proven to produce significant improvements in children’s learning outcomes.
For instance, in a study conducted in Bangalore (India), children who played with the Atlas Mission for a month increased their vocabulary by 50% and their reading scores by 75%.
More importantly, they were able to use the skills they had learned by playing the game to read out novel words which they had not been exposed to in the game, demonstrating learning at a much deeper and conceptual level.
The underlying technology and curriculum that powers the Atlas Mission is based on research conducted at the Carnegie Mellon University and at the University of California, Berkeley, and has been created by leading educators with years of experience teaching children across different age-groups.
Learning Yogi isn’t your typical startup.
Most startups set out to create a good product, get a lot of users, and eventually sell out to a bigger company and make a lot of money for their founders and investors. There’s nothing wrong with that, but that’s not what gets us up from bed every day raring to go to work.
Simply put, we are trying to change the world.
Our ultimate mission is to use the Atlas Mission game to help children all over the world – from children growing up in fairly well-off families in developed countries to underprivileged children living in conditions of abject poverty in developing countries – teach themselves by completely bypassing the current education system that has served so many of them so poorly for so long.
We are creating something epic here at Learning Yogi – and doing it at a scale that has never been attempted before.
It’s inspiring. It’s challenging. It’s humbling.
If you are excited by our mission and want to work with us in order to help us achieve it, check out our Careers page to find out about the job openings that we currently have and to submit your CV to us.
If you have some other ideas on how we can work together, please contact us.