Over 15 years ago, the team listened to the call from teachers that they needed a better tool to support them to give student feedback, check tests and mark exams.

The research team knew that an explosion of digital tools in education was on the horizon, but so far, had only seen failed attempts at the purposeful application of such programs. The team decided that its PhD project should focus on developing a meaningful learning platform. The platform had to keep students intrinsically motivated, fit with existing teacher workflows and help teachers spend more time with their students — all the while, allowing in-built AI to take care of the marking and analytics. Some claimed it was an over-optimistic project. But the research team and the teachers they collaborated with, knew it would be a dream come true if they helped teachers break free of the piles of tests that awaited them in their spare time.

The best part would be that children would be inspired by engaging, fun and meaningful content at the same time.

After launching the platform under the name ViLLE in Finland, it was a roaring success. Finnish teachers and students loved it and found it to be an excellent supplement to their daily math lessons.

To date, the team has published more than 100 scientific papers, and over time they also garnered the interest of the international pedagogical science community. Therefore, the next logical step was to launch the platform globally. This time, under the name of Eduten. Since the global launch, the platform is now in over 50 countries worldwide and counting. The platform has won numerous awards, including UNESCO’s prestigious ICT award in Education 2020 and the UNICEF EdTech Award, 2022.

Eduten travels effortlessly to all corners of the globe and serves its users with a fun and scientifically meaningful teaching and learning platform. We encourage all schools to try Eduten for free. You’ll wonder how you ever taught without it!