Build And Share Rich Educational Content With Desmos
Desmos, a startup launching in beta today at Disrupt, hopes to fix educational fragmentation by offering platform-agnostic software that enables users to build and share rich educational content. Desmos is currently offering two versions of its software, one that’s collaborative and takes advantage of the synchronicity of the Web, while the other is “published”, or a standalone version of the content that offers the same interactive features but can be used offline. Desmos enables users to quickly switch between online and offline versions, allowing multiple people to collaboratively build a lesson, then publish it and embed it.
Desmos builds interactive lessons that are completely browser-based — it gives the users the ability to collaborate in realtime to create lesson plans, whether it be geography, the Periodic Table, etc.
“Texas Instruments, your monopoly on graphing in the classroom is over”, Desmos Founder Eli Luberoff said onstage at Disrupt. And, hey, as of last week, Desmos has raised $800K in funding, so maybe that will be in the flash cards, so to speak.
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