Minima™️
A bridge between science and practice. A new micro-learning and AI instructional designer app to support 21st-century teachers in their professional development.
Key Features
Minima uses 3 key philosophies to drive engagement and optimal memory recall, making the content fun and engaging for teachers yet strategically designed to deliver effective resources and support for new and experienced teachers.
Engagement Meets the Needs of the Modern Gamer
1.2 billion worldwide
432,000,000 like to play games on mobile devices
Average age is 39 - 44% female 56% male
Minima uses essential designing principles to accommodate micro-learning, social learning, and machine learning systems.
Creating content following the principles of UX design that fits small screens
It addresses teachers when they need the knowledge at that moment in time. Lessons are short, no longer than 5 minutes
It follows a specific instructional flow:
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AHA! moment
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Interactive content
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Short exercises
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Instant personalized feedback
It offers social learning principles:
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Mini podcasts (share your voice)
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Peer-to-peer feedback (comment on other's experiences + give advice)
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Helping others (create your own courses and share)
Minima is a trained AI that offers multi-modal e-learning materials:
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Designs courses, and lessons, as well as offers 21st-century skills training within minutes.
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Offers the best digital resources and materials depending on your learners' goals and needs.
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Updates your existing learning materials with the latest methods and materials to accommodate the modern learner.
App Screens
Understanding YOU!
After signing in, Minima offers a unique set of questionnaires created by artificial intelligence to understand you more and recommend content that would be beneficial for your own purpose. It also connects you with like-minded individuals that have the same goals and concerns.
Welcome to your world!
This page offers a menu to choose your journey from. Minima is a multi-modal app that accommodates all types of learners. It is also accessible offline.
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Drag & Drop
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Maps
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Adventure games
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Levels
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Share & Track your results with others
Your personal instructional designer!
In this section, Minima offers a trained AI to create, adjust, update, and plan your materials within minutes!
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Choose your domain, level, and desired modal to create the best lesson plan for your targeted learner based on scientific discoveries and research in education.
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Upload files (images, PDFs, videos,...), and Minima would rate, give recommendations, and provide multi-modal and modern techniques to enhance your lessons.
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Offers training on how to deliver the learning materials.
Hello...
I'm Maria Agop
This website was created as part of the Master of Educational Technology program at the University of British Columbia (ETEC 523). I have been an online English teacher since 2016. I received my BA in English Literature & Language in 2015. My experience as a teacher in a physical classroom didn't last more than a year, but it was enough for me to see the daily struggles of teachers. After transitioning to online teaching, I fell in love with creating my own multi-modal materials and wanted to help teachers create their own 21st-century learning materials. Minima was an idea that came to me while looking through DALL.E 2, which is an AI software that transforms text into visual images. I envisioned a future where teachers would be able to change materials into multi-modal teaching materials (games, videos, text, and visuals) with the help of a trained AI and close the gap between teachers and instructional designers. Teachers could also gain insight by micro-learning the latest research, and digital strategies (e.g., AR and VR) to enhance their classrooms. Teacher training in the above-mentioned areas is crucially needed.
