On March 24th, the 1-to-1 education brand owned by TAL Education Group, Ai Wise Kang, officially launched the "iProgress" personalized learning system, which enhances teaching efficiency, enriches learning experience, and realizes personalized education with students as the main focus through technological empowerment and data-driven methods. It is reported that the "iProgress" personalized learning system has been fully implemented in 35 learning centers in Beijing and will be widely applied nationwide this year.

AI+ Big Data + Neuroscience: a new development path for personalized education

In the traditional 1-to-1 teaching scenario, students' learning progress, study planning, and study habits all rely on individual teacher understanding. Adhering to the concept of "technology driving educational progress," Ai Wise Kang has been considering how to use technology to optimize teaching methods and teaching processes, effectively improve teaching efficiency, and help students improve their learning levels through a reasonable learning path.

Relying on the 900,000 classic questions refined by Ai Wise Kang over the past 11 years and the teaching big data from tens of thousands of teachers, the "iProgress" personalized learning system will achieve comprehensive coverage of students' mastery, learning progress, and study habits. It uses neuroscience technology and learning data to analyze students' actual mastery of knowledge and recommend corresponding teaching suggestions, providing more suitable feedback on questions and knowledge points for teachers to conduct targeted training. This greatly improves the efficiency of students' learning and shortens study time.

"iProgress" runs through the entire teaching process. In the pre-class stage, teachers can quickly understand students' learning progress through the system, select corresponding knowledge points, and adjust matching exercises. During class, teachers can use the system to provide targeted exercises and enter answers for students. If students have not mastered the content, they can be further taught about the related knowledge points. After class, teachers can select some similar questions recommended by the system for students to practice, and repeat teaching the knowledge points until students completely grasp them.

Head of TAL's Neuroscience Laboratory, Yang Ying, giving a speech on "The Beauty of Personalization Achieved by Technology"

At the event, Yang Ying, Head of TAL's Neuroscience Laboratory, shared the exploration of neuroscience in the field of education. Yang Ying stated that the application of neuroscience in education will become an important sub-area of research, and various business models and cutting-edge topics are emerging. The TAL Neuroscience Laboratory focuses on three areas of research: using objective monitoring of brain function to enhance classroom diagnosis and observation, laying a solid foundation for tracing the long-term effective "learning process" of the brain; researching more targeted and accurate learning ability evaluation systems; and designing corresponding products under scientific guidance to stimulate the brain's optimal learning state.

Zhang Yuanlong, Director of Product Department of Ai Wise Kang, shares the research and development concept of "iProgress"

"iProgress" personalized learning system is an important practical application of neuroscience research, and the learning data recorded by the system will also provide better data support for neuroscience research. Regarding the research and development concept of "iProgress," Zhang Yuanlong, Director of the Product Department, provided an in-depth interpretation: "'iProgress' system combines with TAL's Neuroscience Laboratory's cognitive model, uses objective monitoring of brain function to analyze and calculate students' learning processes, and recommends more suitable learning methods and paths. It aims to develop students' learning abilities in a longer-term and deeper way. On the other hand, 'iProgress' continues to use Professor Bloom's 'mastery learning method' as the underlying design logic, and takes 'explanation-assessment-feedback-correction' as the teaching logic. By constantly discovering and solving problems, it implements a virtuous cycle of 'teacher explanation-student application-confirm mastery and continue,' thus truly promoting the continuous optimization of the teaching process and achieving a dual improvement in teaching efficiency and student learning."

"iProgress" personalized learning system officially launched by Ai Wise Kang
 

Putting students at the center, Ai Wise Kang launches a series of educational technology explorations
 

During the event, Wang Zheng, a senior middle school mathematics teacher from Ai Wise Kang, also shared real cases of students improving after using the "iProgress" learning system. In the demonstration, students using the "iProgress" system significantly increased their interaction and communication frequency with teachers. Through real-time tracking of teaching data, most students effectively improved their learning levels and interest in the closed-loop learning system of "pre-class-during class-post-class."

TAL Education Group has always been committed to promoting educational progress through technology, and Ai Wise Kang has been practicing personalized learning through technology. The current positioning of the "iProgress" personalized learning system is to assist teachers in teaching. In the future, it will evolve into a teaching product based on the application of neuroscience and the principle of adaptive learning. "We focus on individual differences among students, hoping to improve teaching efficiency through technology, so that teachers can pay more attention to cultivating students' abilities and promoting personalized development. In the future, we will form a personalized teaching model centered on students' abilities and needs," said Li Zilong, General Manager of Ai Wise Kang's Business Unit.

In the future, Ai Wise Kang will continue to explore and research in the forefront of educational technology fields such as neuroscience, artificial intelligence, big data, and adaptive learning, to promote the development of personalized education. Through a series of educational technology explorations such as the "iProgress" system, Ai Wise Kang hopes to fully unleash the potential and vitality of personalized education, helping more students to learn autonomously and become more comprehensive and diverse talents.