week 6 - assignment 6.2: the final product pitch
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MITxWeek 6 –Assignment 6.2: The Final Product Pitch
Student: Elaine Matthews
THE FINAL PRODUCT
My final product will be a site/platform that
is about teaching even those that are
uncomfortable with this topic how to study,
learn and memorize English (and many other
languages) lessons.
On the next slide there is a mockup of the
front page of my site/platform that is about
English lessons but as I have mentioned
before there will be other languages lessons
too.
ENGLISH LESSONS TO MAKE YOU
AS WISE AS AN OWL!
GOALS
Goals (for educators):
1. teach grammar
2. teach vocabulary
3. teach reading
4. teach speaking
5. teach listening
6. teach writing
7. etc.
8. have different ways of teaching the same skill
9. have different levels of interactive exercises, quizzes, etc.
10. have different offers of interesting fast courses
11. collect data to check students’ progress
12. get a certificate
Goals (for learners):
1. learn grammar
2. learn vocabulary
3. learn reading
4. learn speaking
5. learn listening
6. learn writing
7. etc.
8. have a feedback of their progress
9. have different options to learn the same skill
10. have different levels of interactive exercises, quizzes, etc.
11. have options of languages (exercises in different languages)
12. have different offers of interesting fast courses
13. get a certificate (verified or not)
14. etc.
Goals (for funders):
1. help people learn English and other languages in an easy
and fast way
2. make money
3. etc.
THE NEED FOR THE PRODUCT
There is a need for this site/platform of mine
(especially in Brazil) because almost 89% of
learners find English (or any other language) lessons
at language schools or at regular schools boring and
also because learning English (or any other
language) at language schools takes too long and
employers can’t hardly wait for their employees to
speak English, Spanish or any other language as
wise as an owl! For educators at regular schools this
site/platform of mine will be a way to make their
classes/lessons more interesting and engaging.
THE TEACHING
My site/platform will teach English
(and other languages) lessons in an easy
and fast way; in a way students
(especially grown-ups) can learn
English (or other languages) and
memorize what they learn so that they
become as wise as an owl in many
languages!
THE USERS
Learners (grown-ups or not), educators,
and people who want to fund the
site/platform or just advertise a product
will be the users of my site/platform.
The site/platform will be accessible
online from anywhere in the world (or
almost all the world), will have support
for multiple languages and will provide
high-quality learning.
THE ENRICHMENT OF THE
CURRICULUM
By incorporating my site/platform into
their curriculum, educators will enrich
it besides feeling accomplished and
feeling as if they were innovating their
classes every day and making their
students motivated to learn many
languages in a useful way.
THE CONTENT
The technology of my site/platform will
enable students to learn and memorize
English/Spanish/etc. contents through
motivating, engaging and collaborative
exercises/projects, etc. because my
site/platform will provide students with
a variety of projects/lessons that can be
used by educators and learners.
ASSESSMENT & PROGRESS
Learners will be assessed within my site/platform. There
will be time-based exercises, reading comprehensions,
essays, score exercises, video chats for educators to check
students’ listening and speaking, quizzes, project hand-ins,
etc. Educators will have the opportunity to designate
especial tasks like projects based or just like the ones from
the site/platform to check on students’ knowledge on a
specific skill of the target language but learners will have to
send the project to the educator’s area so that they can be
assessed by the educator and by the site. The progress will
be displayed as a typical percentage, scores, charts, etc. in
PDF format and learners will be able to print it out. My
site/platform will allow educators, learners, etc. participate
directly in an environment that keeps track of their
progress.
ONE OF THE ASSESSMENT CHARTS
CERTIFICATE
Learners will be able to get a certificate
that will only be available for those
who have 100% in all exercises and
levels of the courses/projects offered. Of
the other exercises, quizzes, etc. learners
will only have a progress chart in PDF
format so that they can print it out.
CERTIFICATE
RESEARCH FOR UPDATES
In conjunction with my site/platform I
plan to conduct a research on how
efficient and effective my site/platform is
so that new features can be introduced to
the site and those ones that need changing
may be improved/updated or discontinued.
The research will be based on the scores
and progress charts and also on learners’
and educators’ opinions through some pre-
established questions.
THE BIGGEST RISKS
The biggest risks I see with my
site/platform are:
• educators not using the site/platform
to its fullest in their classrooms and
instead using it only for “special
occasions” and continuing with
boring and demotivating classes
• learners not using the site/platform to
its fullest and not using it seriously
THE BIGGEST IMPACTS
I hope my site/platform have huge impacts
on all boring lessons/classes all around the
world (or almost all around the world) and
may be an interactive and engaging learning
environment to improve and increase the
level of millions of learners and educators
and I also hope my funders’ profits be as big
as their feeling of being investing on a
learning technology that has a real impact on
millions of people’s lives and careers.
REFERENCES
#MIT #edX #DesignAndDevelopmentofEducationalTechnology #ElaineMatthews
Owl photo:
http://images.clipartpanda.com/owl-
reading-clipart-dcreAEqRi.gif
Certificate: pptx template