I fully agree with that.
But web-based is an issue with Anki. And in addition to web-based I’d suggest it should allow for proper internationalization of cards.
My personal view is that the disconnect between where Anki is and what is required is such that there is a space for a commercial or governmental body to fund an alternative system aimed at education.
I fully agree. Anki in schhols should not have to fall upon teachers. To the contrary, they shouldn’t have to be bothered with its administration. See my piece on that topic.
Please see my thoughts on that. Correct me if I’m mistaken, but couldn’t Anki run on the web with little modification to the code? I wrote:
Tools such as PyScript, Qt for WebAssembly, Rust and WebAssembly and SQL.js indicate that Anki as a web application could be realized with few modifications to the code.
A company out of India made over 400 notetypes that are active, connect to a server and send and receive data apart from working standalone. over 100,000 flash cards are made for daily student learning, language learning in 6 Indian languages. And for autistic, dyslexic and ADHD children. Teachers use Ankidroid and cast the cards to Smart TVs. There are over 10,000 activities for children.
Can we receive more info on this?
Ankidroid is installed on a $300 smart android TV or $100 Android Box and connected to a LCD Panel/TV/Projector. Or Anki is Installed on Ubuntu/Redhat/Centos with plugins on a laptop and connected to an external big display. Or Anki is installed on a Android Phone and casted to a Android TV or Firestick connected to a projector. Phone is the cheapest option which can be circulated in the classroom for activities
Each notetype has smart active code running in them with beautiful CSS, images, videos, voice etc. Single click turns the card into Dyslexic Font. Single Click turns the card to give out Indian Language voice. And Sign Language
Call from jquery sends data to a server on a port that is collected and analyzed. And feedback is given. Based on that the cards intensity and actions are adjusted.
Anki is used at many schools for special children who are in the autism spectrum, CP etc. Basically making a new card is just a couple of minutes. An external software automates the making of the cards and embedding the code, along with images, videos and voice which are all generated using AI API calls and NLTK.
BTW plugins can tweak the algorithm.
Children who have been using these for language learning skills have seen significant improvement in their scores within 3 months.
Anki is the best flashcard or education learning tool out there. Hands down. Enormous flexibility, ease of use and even the teacher in a remote village can add, modify cards.
Is the software available? Who are the developers? How can we contact them or contact the school officials?
What is your role in this project?
A company called Nestor. We happened to buy their software (reseller) and deploy it across many public libraries that have schools attached. They won the United Nations award for inclusivity and also the best deployed solution in education. And lot of other awards for innovation and AI implementation in education. In a recent pilot across a bunch of schools, they demonstrated that Anki can supplement teachers. Schools with teachers less than 5 improved scores multifold.
Who is “we”? Can I contact you directly?
I believe the functionality you mentioned can be achieved by extending AnkiConnect. The architecture would be: 1) Anki acting as a server, 2) Extending the functionality of the AnkiConnect plugin, 3) A web-based interface for both teachers and students to access Anki through the extended AnkiConnect.
Sounds interesting. Could you expound on that? How would teachers obtain an aggregate picture of the practice statistics of all their students, mass import decks per groups of students, etc.? Every student with an individual copy of Anki? Anki GUIs remotely configured? What about addons?
The way I see it, each student should have a remotely configured and loaded copy with a minimal user-friendly, (no browse, no sync) GUI containing gaming and pre-installed addons.
Would love to discuss this more at length with you.
Regarding the application of Anki in schools, a technical solution that enables a teacher to support multiple students is proposed. The structure is as follows: 1) Anki acts as the server side, 2) A web server is provided for access by teachers and students, 3) AnkiConnect links the Anki server with the web server, 4) Teachers can batch generate deck cards through the web server and view student statistics, 5) Students utilize the web server to study the due cards.I am currently planning to launch this project. For further details, we can communicate via email or other means.
I hope more interested people can work together to promote.
Is the project open source and free?
I was thinking about a project of that kind for kids since few days and finally came into this forum. I developed already few ideas. Do you plan to do it in open source ? Or with a business purpose.
At the moment I think there are no open source projects related to Anki and schools. I am interested in this, however it is probably more difficult to develop add-ons etc. for schools in open source.
Basically, volunteer developers often develop Add-ons for their own use.
Developers do not use school Add-ons themselves, so most developers have no incentive to develop them. And, in the case of Add-ons that are distributed to a large number of people, the developer cannot debug them.
Also, many add-ons break with major updates to Anki. Even if someone develops an advanced set of Add-ons for schools, they should be broken in 1-3 years. Ideally, if schools use them, they should probably be stable and usable for at least 3-6 years.
So if an educational organization develops such a product, they should probably ask the developer to do the work for a fee and not update the version of Anki to avoid breaking it. In this case, they probably do not have the benefit of making it open source.
They need to earn back their investment, so there is no incentive to share the source code with their competitors. And I think the advantage of open source is that volunteers can collaborate, but in the case of schools, new advanced features can cause bugs, and it is easier for teachers to explain to students if advanced features are deleted rather than added.
The wider vision is a multiuser, managed edition of Anki with which teachers can monitor progress of students on a group basis without having to know Anki
The Idea is nice but wouldn’t it mean too much control over what children are doing? Like if you miss a day that will be there on Anki’s stats screen. This sort of constant monitoring seems terrifying.
Anki is the self-grading system, so I think punitive monitoring simply does not work.
For example, if Anki statistics are related to grades, students can get high grades by pressing Good for all of them without looking at the reviews. And students can review past dates by changing the date on their PC. They can explain this because they had not yet synchronized their mobile devices.