Vivek Agarwal

Vivek has been an ed-tech entrepreneur in India for over 22 years and is the founder of Liqvid, which is a specialized digital learning company. It provides a range of personalised, AI-enabled and other learning solutions with a specific focus on English language learning to global organisations.

Prior to this he had founded egurucool, which was India’s leading web-site for K-12 curriculum support and test prep.  EGurucool raised more than $ 12 million in funding from prestigious investors including World Bank and Newscorp.

Vivek has done his MBA from IIM Calcutta in India and has worked in GE Capital. He has keen interest in AI, technology and education. 

SHAPE Live | Talk summary

Personalization has been the holy grail in e-learning and is now considered as the desideratum of e-learning systems today. With the Covid-induced acceleration of hybrid learning models, especially with remote learning at the core – teacher-assisted and otherwise – the topic has been receiving a lot more attention and focus. However, much of e-learning systems and content are designed and deployed with a one-size-fits-all mindset and minimal ‘personalization’. At Liqvid we are working on a framework that combines learning insights, advanced mathematics and AI/ML to create personalized learning experiences for learners with the single-minded goal to significantly enhance learning effectiveness. Our framework construes e-learning as a multi-modal system around the following three dimensions: Cognitive State (proficiency) of the learner (cognitive agent), Individual Learning Style (style agent) and Emotional State of the learner (emotional agent). I will cover how we have used a large amount of data to create these engines and our learnings about the outcomes achieved and challenges involved.