Rising wins new global innovation award and joins the Learning Engineering Virtual Institute (LEVI)

We are thrilled to share that we’ve been selected as a participant of the the Learning Engineering Virtual Institute (LEVI), which has a mission to revolutionise math education globally. LEVI selected a cohort of seven teams committed to harnessing the potential of AI and machine learning to enhance middle school maths education. The program has the ambition to more than double math outcomes for millions of low-income students.

The seven teams selected for LEVI are Carnegie Learning, Carnegie Mellon University, Eedi, Rising Academies, the University of Colorado Boulder, Khan Academy, and the University of Florida.

LEVI teams are already making remarkable strides toward accomplishing this ambitious goal. We are using LEVI to accelerate the development of Rori, our engaging virtual math tutor delivered via WhatsApp, which is already reaching more than 50,000 children across Africa (more details on Rori shared below). 

The honour of joining LEVI comes in the same week that Rori was selected as one of the 100 most impactful and scalable education innovations from around the world in the HundrED 2024 Collection. This is Rori’s 5th global innovation award.

HundrED awards in Helsinki Finland, 31st October 2023.

For a comprehensive overview of LEVI, the 7 participating teams, and the groundbreaking projects, please visit https://learning-engineering-virtual-institute.org/.

For more information on HundrED’s Global Innovation Collection, please visit: 

https://hundred.org/en/collections/hundred-global-collection-2024 

For more information on Rori, please visit www.rori.ai or read our short Q&A below:

More information about Rori

Why did you create Rori?

200 million children in Africa are not achieving minimum levels of proficiency in mathematics. Research shows that high-quality, high-dosage tutoring is one of the best ways to improve outcomes. Despite the growing size of the private tutoring market, access to high-quality provision is out of reach for the vast majority of children. Rori addresses that gap.

How does Rori work in practice?

Rori is a virtual math tutor built for low-resource settings. Students converse with Rori on their phone, for free, in their natural language via WhatsApp. Rori delivers micro-lessons, asks practice questions and understands students’ answers. Students progress through topics at their own pace. The conversational format creates a durable, friendly rapport between the bot and the student and promotes meta-cognition. We are also currently integrating text-to-speech technology that will make Rori more accessible to children with low levels of literacy.

How has it been spreading?

Since being launched to the public in November 2022, Rori has reached over 50,000 users. Rori was developed across 30 schools in Ghana, with a large, representative sample of the types of teachers, parents and students who will be using Rori. This has allowed us to follow best practices in human centered design and conduct rapid micro-evaluations as we developed the products capabilities.

If I want to try it, what should I do?

The fastest way to experience Rori is by sending a WhatsApp message to our Rori Demo experience on +1(202)9824479. This includes experimental features and is constantly being updated. If you would like to complete a full user sign-up to access the official Rori product, WhatsApp “Hi” to Rori on +1(206)5906259