The company is also committed to keeping its product free to learners, and to their teachers by extension, so it’s not planning on charging for the new offering. While teachers will be using the standard Duolingo curriculum for their classrooms, Gotthilf added that the company is toying the idea of extending its Duolingo Incubator - user-generated language courses - to the school product to enable teachers to submit curriculum suggestions based on what they see in their classrooms, among other ideas.
DUOLINGO INCUBATOR PROGRAM SOFTWARE
Language-learning software and services have become quite popular for the latter, creating a lot of business for companies like Verbling, Babbel, and others. The company expects to see both teachers in North America using the software to teach foreign languages as well as teachers in other parts of the world using it to teach English, a language commonly seen as a professional advantage in other countries. “Teachers have started using Duolingo naturally” before there was even talk of a classroom-specific product, Gotthilf told VentureBeat in an interview. As the language learner answers short questions, the software picks up on their pace, strengths, and weaknesses, and tailors the questions accordingly.įor schools, Duolingo has built a dashboard that connects to students’ Duolingo accounts and enables teachers to track their progress, something that Duolingo’s flagship software didn’t allow for.Īccording to Duolingo head of communications Gina Gotthilf, the new offering will appeal to teachers for three main reasons: It’s free (teachers and schools are often low on money), it’s data-driven approach has yielded an optimal curriculum for teaching each language (which continues to be improved), and its game-like interface appeals to students and keeps them engaged. Duolingo’s free software gamifies the learning process.
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