OnSchooler

College of Engineering Unit(s): 
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Team: 
Anjali Vasisht, Liangge Deng and Ridwana Rahman

Project Description: 

Most English language learners in the US fall behind in school for the first couple of years. OnSchooler is a language learning app meant to help the home-school community of learners and teachers. The program provides users with the option to learn in multiple languages, perfect for bilingual students, especially those learning English as their second language.

OnSchooler was founded by Cynthia Fischer, our project partner, and she brought the program to us in its second phase, with many of the features already implemented. Our task was to improve the system as a whole: how it functions for both students and instructors, as well as how intuitive and easy to use the interface is. It was determined that the OnSchooler system would enable all users to learn in English as well as their native language. This work was done to an existing version of the OnSchooler website by using ASP.Net web development to improve the UI and fix bugs on the website.

In general, the OnSchooler curriculum is much more accelerated than those typically found in the US public school system; it is also more robust, with dedicated tracks for technology, second language, personal development (both physical and social) and the arts starting in 2nd grade. An average student will finish a basic US high school level education by age 14, leaving plenty of time for more advanced classes or career training programs. In general, this system has already been proved in the private lab school to be much more effective, efficient and affordable than the systems typically used in US public schools; adoption of this system would enable US high school students to perform at the same level as students of the same age in other countries (instead of falling further behind). This system would be great in areas with a large international population, where two languages are commonly in use, in schools where students can start learning a second language at age 8 (when it’s easier) instead of age 15, and with groups that are trying to save or revive traditional languages.

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The system used to log the user out when clicking the home button
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