Transforming a Successful, High-Growth EdTech App Into an Inclusive Innovation for SEND Alternative Qualifications

Adapt是一款基于ML的学习规划应用程序，面向GCSE和A-Level学生，于2020年1月推出，在英国中学市场广受好评。推出后，该公司一跃成为教育应用商店的第一名，赢得了2019年CVC年度青年创新者奖，2020年被苹果公司放在应用商店的首页，并在2021年赢得了伦敦科技周刊的提升创始人欧洲大赛。到目前为止，Adapt已经在3000多所学校获得了超过50万活跃用户，并以每天1000-2000名学生的速度持续增长。Adapt的EdTech产品是一款修订时间表应用程序，由教师专业知识驱动，与学生一起构建，它在不到一分钟的时间内制定出完美的修订计划，然后不断进行调整，以确保它始终是最新的。Adapt现在正寻求通过将其久经考验的技术适应非主流的Send替代资格来实现产品多样化；这是以前从未做过的事情。Adapt的发送替代资格应用程序将提供关于单位奖励计划(UAS)、ELCs和发展的入门水平的学习课程，而不是提供基于GCSE和A-Level考试的学习课程。每门课程将由SEND系统中的特殊学校、替代课程和其他提供替代资格的非主流学校购买(并为其量身定做)。这些学校和机构还将为他们的教师和领导提供一个匹配的动态数据仪表盘，实时显示他们的SEND学生在哪里有信心，他们在哪里挣扎。这将使教师和学校能够更成功地监控非主流教育中SEND学生的进展；对于SEND学生来说尤其重要，他们在独立学习方面面临着额外的障碍(例如，难以开始一项任务，对学习失去兴趣，很少完成任务，Tohara等人，2021年)。这将降低他们的失败率，并确保更多拥有SEND的年轻人成功毕业于工作场所，解决DFE在2022年确定的关键挑战，即“无论从哪种标准来看，拥有SEND或替代方案的儿童和年轻人的结果都一直比他们的同龄人差。”

Adapt, a ML-powered study planning app for GCSE and A-Level students, launched in January 2020 to great acclaim in the UK Secondary School market. Upon launch, the company shot to Number 1 on the Education App Store, winning CVC's Young Innovator of the Year Award in 2019, being featured by Apple on the front page of the App Store in 2020 and winning London Tech Week's Elevating Founders Europe Competition in 2021\. To date, Adapt has acquired over 500,000 active users in over 3,000 schools, and continues to grow by 1000-2000 students per day.Adapt's EdTech product is a revision timetable app, driven by teacher expertise and built with students, which makes a perfect revision plan in under a minute and then continually adapts it to ensure it's always up to date. Adapt is now seeking to diversify its offering by "adapting" its tried and tested technology to non-mainstream SEND Alternative Qualifications; something which has never been done before. Rather than provide courses of study based on GCSE and A-Level exams, Adapt's SEND Alternative Qualifications app will provide courses of study on the Unit Award Scheme (UAS), ELCs and Developed Entry Levels. Each course will be bought by (and tailored to) special schools in the SEND system, alternative provision, and other non-mainstream settings which offer Alternative Qualifications. Those schools and settings will also have access to a matching dynamic data dashboard for their teachers and leaders, showing them in real time where their SEND students are confident and where they are struggling.This will allow teachers and schools to monitor much more successfully the progress of SEND students in non-mainstream education; particularly important for SEND students, who face additional barriers to independent learning (e.g., struggling to begin a task, losing interest in learning, and rarely finishing tasks, Tohara et al., 2021). This will reduce their failure rate and ensure more young people with SEND successfully graduate into the workplace, addressing the key challenge identified by the DfE in 2022 that "outcomes for children and young people with SEND or in alternative provision are consistently worse than their peers across every measure."