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chunkx @LearnTec 2022

This year’s LearnTec 2022 was a complete success. After almost two years, we enjoyed being able to talk to (potential) customers and chunkx users in person again.

For recap, here is the recording as well as a short summary of our presentation at LearnTec. Have fun!

It’s done: Three days of LearnTec. Three days full of exciting topics, innovative technologies and new ways of thinking.

We also got to present our solutions with chunkx and talk about our vision of a continuous and adaptive learning experience. There we had the opportunity to talk together with the National Anti Doping Agency in a 20-minute presentation about how mandatory and prevention trainings are sustainably anchored in chunkx.

Check out the summary of the talk now! At the end, there’s an exciting preview of our automated content creation that you won’t want to miss!

Here is a brief summary

Intuitive and clear documentation

In our authoring tool, the chunkx creator, clear documentation helps to optimize mandatory courses in a targeted manner: They break down the learning needs and assign the learners' weaknesses to specific content. In this way, supplementary learning courses, face-to-face seminars or other learning measures can be designed. By the way: The evaluation takes place where you want it. Either conveniently in chunkx or in your learning management system.

Digital learning with chunkx

chunkx is aimed at both companies and educational institutions, such as universities or schools. In addition to closed instances, chunkx offers a public area. Academies such as those offered by Together Against Doping, museums and other educational institutions are offered here.

With chunkx, we offer you a tool to expand both new and existing measures in a targeted manner. Are you not yet a customer? Then contact us for a personal presentation and let’s talk about the possibilities together. We look forward to hearing from you!

chunkx wins a Comenius-EduMedia Award

We are honored to have been recognized by the Gesellschaft für Pädagogik, Information und Medien e.V. (GPI) as one of the most outstanding educational media for work, training, school, culture and leisure. The award not only recognizes the years of development of our micro-learning app, but also proves the quality and impact of the continuous and sustainable learning experience with chunkx! A big thank you also to the National Anti-Doping Agency, which has proven with the COMMON AGAINST DOPING Academy on chunkx how successfully a sustainable learning culture can be established.

Enclosed you can now find the German version of the press release.

chunkx wins in the category "Digital didactic media products

Berlin, Germany – the micro-learning app chunkx was honored on June 23 at this year’s Comenius Award ceremony in Berlin by the Gesellschaft für Pädagogik, Information und Medien e.V. (GPI) as one of the most outstanding educational media for work, training, school, culture and leisure.

The demand and also the market for digital educational media are growing continuously. However, only a fraction can meet the pedagogical, didactic and technical criteria and establish a sustainable digital educational medium. With the Comenius-EduMedia Award, GPI has therefore made it its task to test and award digital educational media according to the criteria mentioned. For more than 26 years, the awards have been presented in the categories Digital Didactic Media Products, General Digital Media Products, Teaching and Learning Management Systems, and Computer Games with Competence Enhancing Potential.

This year, over 200 manufacturers, publishers, projects and authors from 8 European countries applied and underwent the manufacturer-neutral quality check.

The Comenius EduMedia Award underlines the didactic quality achieved by the National Anti-Doping Agency together with chunkx and confirms the growing demand for digital solutions for adaptive and continuous learning.

Florian Stieler, Gründer & CEO

chunkx convinces with innovative approaches for sustainable learning

For the award in the category “Digital didactic media product”, chunkx was able to convince not only with its innovative use of artificial intelligence and adaptive algorithms, but also with the pedagogical concept behind it. Based on scientific theories such as“Multi Store Model of Memory“,“Information Processing Theory” or “Certainty Based Marking”, chunkx lays the foundation for a new learning culture.

The following approaches in particular stood out:

Microlearning units for continuity

To move from static to adaptive learning paths and make invested learning time as effective as possible, chunkx follows the micro-learning approach. Individual learning units are packed into small chunks in order to be more “digestible” for the learner. Instead of listening to an extensive course or video/audio once, content is equalized and repeated over longer periods of time. The resulting moments of reflection promote the sustainability of the learning process and enable a deeper anchoring than so-called “bulimic learning” can.

Adaptivity for knowledge-based learning content

In chunkx, learning content isselected based on users . Specially developed algorithms not only repeat the microlearning units, but also select them dynamically based on the knowledge level of the individual users. This selection can be constantly readjusted. Because with every action of the learner, the app also continues to learn and improve the selection.

Self-determined and connecting learning

In chunkx, learners decide for themselves how long and intensive they want their learning unit to be. You can use the “Start all your channels” button to learn more than one topic. At the touch of a button, chunkx then selects the most suitable microlearning unit from all subscribed topics and based on the individual learning history. As a result, topics no longer compete for the attention of users, but instead connect and reinforce each other. In addition, the existing learning content is enriched by further relevant information such as published articles, studies or podcasts in the form of postings .

Simple and AI-based content creation

To actively contribute to a new continuous and sustainable learning culture, chunkx offers AI-based content creation. With the click of a button, chunkx users can upload content, have microlearning units created automatically, and start learning. This not only involves all learning parties in extending learning courses, but also lets them share knowledge with others in the easiest way.

About chunkx

chunkx is an adaptive micro-learning app for web, iOS and Android. It focuses on sustainable learning transfer through smart algorithms, artificial intelligence and user-based content selection. chunkx uses Natural Language Processing for user-based recommendations and the automatic creation of interactive microlearning units. The chunkx user app and chunkx creator authoring tool provide authors and users with the optimal support for ongoing content creation and learning engagement. chunkx is a product of chunkx B.V. and was founded in 2018. The EdTech start-up is based at the High Tech Campus Eindhoven, Netherlands, and in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Are you not yet a customer or do you have questions about chunkx? Then contact us for a personal presentation and let’s talk about the possibilities together. We look forward to hearing from you!

Pre-seed investment of the venture capital fund LUMO Labs

We are very happy to introduce you to our new partner and investor LUMO Labs! LUMO Labs brings many years of experience in the AI field as well as a global network. Their focus on impact-driven startups makes them the ideal partner for us, and they share chunkx’s vision of designing adaptive and continuous learning experiences for everyone. We look forward to working with you!
Enclosed you will find the German version of the official press release.

chunkx becomes part of the LUMO Labs family

Eindhoven, The Netherlands – Learning is often seen as something static and one-time, completed by the attainment of a diploma or certificate. But today’s fast-paced and ever-changing world requires a continuous learning approach that goes beyond certificates and degrees. LUMO Labs, through its investment fund LUMO Fund II, invests in chunkx, a German-Dutch startup that uses artificial intelligence to make learning more relevant and effective in the digital age.

chunkx is an AI-powered micro-learning app that creates a curated and personalized learning experience through adaptive content selection. The platform selects appropriate microlearning units based on the needs of each user and in the future will offer automatic generation of new content to enable the continuous development of users.

Founder and CEO Florian Stieler’s vision is that every person with a smartphone and chunkx technology will be empowered to connect their countless learning experiences, create their lifelong learning feed, and continuously evolve in an ever-changing world.

chunkx is aimed at both companies and educational institutions such as universities. The National Anti-Doping Agency Germany (NADA) is one of the first customers on board. chunkx allows them to transform their traditional e-learning course into an adaptive learning experience. After only three months, more than 6,000 athletes in Germany have already attended the academy.

“We strongly believe that learning is a continuous process that doesn’t stop at the end of a lecture or the last page of an eLearning course,” Stieler said. “With chunkx, we enable users to continue the learning journey. LUMO Labs is the perfect partner for us in this; a partner that shares our vision, brings a strong tech focus and supports us in internationalizing our business.”

“The scalable and accessible idea of the chunkx platform provides equal access to continuous education for people around the world. The innovative focus and customized content creation ensures the relevance and quality of each individual’s learning journey,” said Andy Lürling, founder of LUMO Labs.

“We see great potential in chunkx’s approach to learning and development.”

Lürling and co-founder Sven Bakkes said LUMO Labs is investing because chunkx’s business plan is based on sustainable engagement and connectivity. People cannot immediately transfer everything they have learned to their everyday work. With chunkx, any learning activity can be extended to ensure knowledge transfer.

At the push of a button, the most suitable microlearning unit is selected from all subscribed topics and based on the individual learning history. Just as LinkedIn or Twitter connects us to any number of sources, chunkx connects users to learning content, making it possible to learn even when time is short.

“Both chunkx’s technology and impact goals are central to our investment strategy,” said Bakkes. “We are very excited to welcome this incredibly promising edtech team to our portfolio.”

The investment from LUMO Labs will enable chunkx to continue its pioneering work in AI-based learning content generation and prepare for further growth as a company with lasting impact, he added.

About LUMO Labs

Based at the High Tech Campus Eindhoven, LUMO Labs creates opportunities for impact-driven software and smart hardware startups. The current LUMO Fund II is a multi-stage and impact-driven capital fund (pre-seed up to and including Series A). The Fund includes a two-year venture builder program to help its portfolio companies achieve financial success as well as social reach and impact.

LUMO Labs funds startups that pursue at least one of the following three United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): sustainable cities and communities, good health and well-being, and quality education. Investment focus areas include artificial intelligence/data, blockchain, internet of things, robotics and drones, and virtual / augmented reality.

LUMO Labs advocates for self-determination and traceable ownership of data, as well as transparency and traceability of technologies.

About chunkx

Are you not yet a customer or do you have questions about chunkx? Then contact us for a personal presentation and let’s talk about the possibilities together. We look forward to hearing from you!

Certainty Based Marking in chunkx

Certainty Based Marking (CBM), or more conveniently, Confidence Based Marking (CBM), fascinated me while I was studying education. Therefore, it was only a matter of time when this super useful concept would also find its way into our app chunkx. This much in advance: CBM and adaptive learning are a great fit. In this article, I’ll explain what’s behind it and what role it plays in our learning app.

What is Certainty Based Marking?

In chunkx, microlearning content is often supplemented by interactive learning tasks. This allows us to learn more about the individual user’s knowledge and non-knowledge and to prioritize and, if necessary, repeat content accordingly. Learning tasks in the form of single choice or multiple choice tasks, however, have the disadvantage that simple guesses are quickly made here. That’s where we come to CBM:

Certainty Based Marking (CBM) asks users not only to answer an objective question, but also how certain they are that their answer is correct. Our scoring system particularly rewards not only selecting the correct answer, but also being maximally confident in doing so. Certainty Based Marking encourages reflection on how sound one’s knowledge and skills really are.

How is CBM used in chunkx?

chunkx is a micro-learning app that adaptively selects learning content. Adaptive means individual and suitable per user. I bet you already realize that Certainty Based Marking makes a lot of sense in this context. How often did your teachers used to ask you how sure you were about an answer? I hope so on a regular basis, because the assessment of this helps to better classify one’s own level of knowledge.

We, meaning our algorithms in the app, use this classification to help decide which content to display next that is appropriate for the user.

Must Certainty Based Marking always be used in chunkx?

Authors use the chunkx creator to create channels and micro-learning content. CBM can be used here for all content with closed tasks. Quite optional as a checkbox that can be quickly turned on and off. By default, it is enabled because we are convinced of the concept and the user experience is significantly improved both in terms of response and more appropriate content selection.

Adaptive learning with chunkx

With chunkx, we offer you a tool to expand both new and existing measures in a targeted manner. chunkx is aimed at both companies and educational institutions, such as universities or schools. In addition to closed instances, chunkx offers a public area. Academies such as those offered by Gemeinsam-gegen-Doping, the Lehmbruck Museum and other educational institutions are offered here.

Are you not yet a customer or do you have questions about Certainty Based Marking or other topics in chunkx? Then contact us for a personal presentation and let’s talk about the possibilities together. We look forward to hearing from you!

Interview Learntec 2020

Finally, we get to share the interview that took place last year at Learntec 2020. What are the most important points?

In 2020 – yes, that was a long time ago – we were at Learntec with our team and were interviewed by Dekra Media. We are happy to announce that the video is out now and have linked you to the clip of the interview with our founder Florian Stieler above. But what is the two-minute interview about? Here are the keywords.

1. strengthen memory

Well, this is how it is introduced in the video: chunkx is supposed to strengthen memory. That’s not entirely wrong either, but it doesn’t get to the heart of the matter. In chunkx, a lot of work is done with repetition. Learning content with which we are not yet familiar enough is repeated more frequently. Those where we have demonstrated our knowledge multiple times are less likely to be repeated. This is how our individual, adaptive learning path is formed click-by-click.

This also strengthens memory, but rather selects the most relevant content for our limited time.

2. continuous learning

With chunkx, we transform one-time learning moments into continuous learning experiences. Because learning should not stop with the end of the webinar or the final test after the WBT. As long as a topic is important to me or my business, it should stay with me. Learning measures can be supplemented with chunkx for this purpose. Reflection moments are then regularly generated in our app and content is selected adaptively according to the user’s learning needs.

After all, if the transfer of learning does not occur after a training session, one can legitimately ask: What was the investment of time and money worth then?

3. our customers

chunkx is aimed at both companies and educational institutions, such as universities or schools. In addition to closed instances, chunkx offers a public area. Here, academies such as those offered by Together Against Doping and, soon, museums and other educational institutions.

Digital learning with chunkx

Digital learning must complement, not replace

Digital learning is gaining in importance, because the digital transformation does not stop at learning. Continuing education in companies, organizations and learning opportunities offered by institutions are becoming increasingly digital. Current infection control measures additionally accelerate this development.
What we notice in conversations with new customers and interested parties is that the comparison between classroom situations and digital learning is often seen as an either-or, rather than a both-and decision. In our view, this view leaves a lot of untapped potential, because learning can only be designed in the best possible way if the strengths of analog and digital learning are combined.

Analog learning experiences are more intense than digital ones

What’s the best experience you’ve ever had in a learning situation? Feel free to take a moment before reading on. Can you think of anything? When we talk about this in the team or ask clients this question in workshops, they often mention situations with outstanding trainers or remember the one teacher who was particularly inspiring in school. Also included are discussions in learning groups or working in a quiet room, where you have spent days on a problem.

In fact, the memory of a webinar, eLearning, or printed self-study course never came up in the process.

What does that mean?

Now, that’s not to say that learning experiences interacting with other people are bad per se or always have to be particularly great. But the answers clearly indicate that analog learning experiences form more potential for high intensity and sustainability. And also that even with the best video software, we can’t represent the intensity of educational experiences in the classroom 1:1.

Advantages of digital learning apps

On the other hand, modern digital learning apps can offer functions that cannot be presented in analog form or only with a great deal of effort:

Advanced learning apps can select learning content based on the individual’s needs. This is where we talk about adaptive learning.
They can provide continuous moments of reflection, even after content has already been worked on by learners. We have described more on this topic in the context of learning transfer here .
Learning content can be made more accessible than is possible with analog learning, regardless of time and place. Especially currently during a time marked by infection control measures a valuable feature.

Combining analog and digital learning optimally

With chunkx, we have developed a learning app that offers precisely these functions and thus optimally complements analog learning experiences – for every subject area, every topic and for both companies and educational institutions.

Need-based learning:

In chunkx, courses are broken down into their smallest possible units. Which of these small learning units is selected, when and how often, depends on the individual user’s level of knowledge and learning needs.

Continuous Learning:

For digital learning to succeed in the long term, it must become a regular occurrence. Instead of checking off a topic once, chunkx takes advantage of time and location independence and reselects content for users even weeks, months, and possibly even years after it was edited. Both analog classroom training and digitally conducted webinars can thus be perfectly complemented.

Connecting topics instead of separating them:

For digital learning to enable continuity, it must connect diverse topics for the user in one feed. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and our news apps only work because they use algorithms to select relevant content for us from a wide variety of sources. In learning sessions in chunkx, learners therefore only select content relevant to them from all their voluntary or mandatory courses and providers.

Digital learning with chunkx

Only when digital and analog learning complement each other optimally and we talk less about replacing and more about reinforcing each other can we design qualification and further training in the best possible way. With chunkx, we offer you a tool to expand both new and existing measures in a targeted manner. Not a customer yet? Then contact us for a personal presentation and let’s discuss together how to improve learning for your target groups. We look forward to hearing from you!

Digitally support learning transfer in companies

Continuing education in companies poses many challenges: Which content, for which target group, in which format, in which frequency, carried out by whom? Professional or layman, you can probably think of many more questions. In this article, we address the question of sustainability, which is complementary to the above: How do we ensure the sustainability of learning interventions? How do we ensure that after a training session all participants do not go over to their daily business and forget what they have learned? How can the transfer of learning take place?
We present different approaches and also show how we support you with chunkx to increase learning transfer and turn unique learning moments into sustainable learning experiences.

Factors for successful learning transfer

Learning transfer stands for the ability to transfer a learned problem solution to another, comparable situation. Sustained learning transfer rarely occurs through a single learning activity. Or have you ever done an e-learning or attended a single training and made a lasting change in the way you work afterwards? If not, it raises the question of what the investment in learning was worth if it does not lead to change. After all, companies spend a lot of money on the creation and implementation of learning measures and participants invest a lot of time in which they are not working productively. The transfer of learning is therefore very important and significantly decisive for the success or failure of a measure.

Three crucial factors that contribute to successful learning transfer are what we want to highlight in this article:

1. the importance of emotional events for the transfer of learning

A sustainable transfer of learning is made possible by internalizing the content. Internalization, on the other hand, takes place when learning events are not only run through rationally, but are experienced emotionally.

Emotionality here does not mean that we make the seminar participants cry or that everyone lies on the floor laughing. The latter is perhaps not to be rejected in principle, but it is a difficult goal to achieve (you can learn how humor can be used meaningfully and purposefully in continuing education and in leading teams from Wiebke Schulz, for example). Emotions can already be generated through intensive listening or the mental transfer of what is learned to one’s own experiences. This is favored by so-called irritation experiences, which trigger specific emotions in participants. If a salesperson fails frequently in dealing with objections, he or she has already had the irritation experience and is likely to start motivated in an appropriate training. However, if he does not experience the failure as such, he is probably indifferent to the training and still needs the irritation experience.

Experiences of irritation thus result, for example, from the fact that everyday routines of action fail and a difference from one’s own level of knowledge and understanding is experienced. Only out of this experience of difference do personal reasons for learning arise for the participant and the participant.

1.1 How can irritation experiences and thus emotional learning events be achieved?

For example, by asking at the beginning of an event why the people attending have chosen the seminar and what they hope to gain from it. In this way, the personal reference can be established, which can be addressed in the learning process.

Self-reflective questions during or after the learning activity help to stimulate reflective processes in learners and link what they have learned to their own experiences.

Furthermore, irritation experiences can be stimulated through role plays and exchange of experiences between participants.

1.2 Digital support for emotional learning events

The above approaches can be implemented both analog and digital. Especially in measures without a tutor or trainer, it is difficult to encourage participants to participate personally. But even when using learning media, care can be taken to emphasize the “why?” at the beginning and to regularly ask self-reflective questions that invite people to apply what they have learned to their own experiences.

1.3 Learning content in chunkx

When creating learning content, our trained writers make sure to regularly incorporate reflective questions into our micro-learning units of chunkx. Most often this happens in feedback after a learning task. However, there is also the possibility to set up the whole learning task as a so-called reflexive task. Feel free to contact us about this and we’ll tell you more about what’s important to us when creating digital learning content.

What about you, are you already using reflective tasks? When was the last time and do you feel they helped with learning transfer?

2. the relationship between learning time and learning transfer in corporate learning

The adjective “sustainable” in the title of this article stands for the consideration of a longer period of time and thus already includes the time component. However, time also plays a role in achieving sustainable learning: it is obvious that the chances of achieving a sustainable impact are higher with a 5-day training than with a 1-hour workshop. Unfortunately, however, there is only a very limited amount of time available and the question is always, how do you achieve learning goals most efficiently? In other words, with the least possible investment of money and time.

There is no blanket rule for weighing how much time to devote to a topic. Rather, it depends on how complex the topic is and how important it is for the target group or the company.

2.1 Digital support for productive learning time

Used responsibly, digital tools can help us use time more productively. For in-company training, it is advisable to examine existing blended-learning concepts and further optimize them with the help of digital tools. Blended learning is about combining methods and media in the best possible way. Consider, for example, a 1-day training on “Presentation and Facilitation of Workshops.” Methods will be presented, knowledge about them will be imparted and the application will be practiced together. The methods can be beautifully presented beforehand with a learning video, a short web-based training, a PDF, an email, or with chunkx. Knowledge transfer can also already take place in part with the digital tools. The practical exercises could still be carried out in the training, but this could then be done in four hours instead of eight. The four hours saved are not fully replaced by the digital tools for every participant and every participant. Instead, participants with prior knowledge will need less time.

Our learning app chunkx even supports by making learning content adaptive and according to. of the level of knowledge can be selected for the individual users. The content selection is readjusted to the user after each individual action. You can read more about adaptive learning in chunkx in this blog post . And we have written more about learning time in chunkx in this article.

Making learning time more productive is one thing. Making it continuously productive over a longer period of time is another. For us, the focus in developing chunkx from the beginning was to free learning from the time constraints of a workshop or online training. Because you probably know it too: everything we don’t use right after a workout fades faster than we’d like. Therefore, it is important to provide continuous moments of reflection after the main learning time and to deal with the fact that the transfer of learning does not take place in a single second, but distributed over a longer period of time. The micro-learning approach we have chosen is suitable for this purpose, among other things: learning content is divided into small micro-units that are interrelated but can also stand on their own. This decomposition allows us to stretch the engagement with new content over a longer period of time and to select content according to. of the strengths and weaknesses of the respective user. However, it is not only new content that plays a role in the success of learning transfer, but also the repetition of content that has already been covered.

3. the importance of repetition for the transfer of learning

In classical learning formats, as they have already been listed several times in this article, repetition takes place if only in the form of summaries. This means that it is assumed in online training that we independently repeat content that we have not understood. Most of the time, however, we don’t even find out that we didn’t understand the content correctly. At most, the learning objectives are checked at the end of the learning measure, which in turn does not trigger any targeted repetition of the content.

This means: Repetition does not take place in most digital learning solutions.

It is estimated that learning material has to be repeated about six times in order to store it in long-term memory. This has nothing to do with memorization – this would require much more frequent repetition – but rather with consolidating what has been learned and having it ready for transfer in everyday working life.

3.1 Digital support for learning repetitions

In our micro-learning app chunkx, we take a completely new approach and repeatedly incorporate small repetitions of previously learned content. The frequency and selection depend on the user and what he or she is good at and not so good at. To achieve this goal, we are breaking down the outdated separation of learning and testing. Each micro-learning unit in chunkx contains a learning task, which on the one hand interactively stimulates learning processes in the learner and on the other hand helps our app to learn what should be repeated and what should not. This not only creates an individualized and adaptive learning experience, but also provides optimal support for learning transfer.

Summary

Sustainability and a successful transfer of learning are crucial for the success of learning measures. We have elaborated on whyemotional events, time, and repetition are important factors in learning transfer and how to best use each.

With chunkx, we offer you a tool to expand both new and existing measures in a targeted manner. Not a customer yet? Then contact us for a personal presentation and let’s improve learning in your organization together.

Here is a brief summary

Adaptive content selection

Continuous learning

Connecting learning

Intuitive and clear documentation

Digital learning with chunkx

chunkx wins in the category "Digital didactic media products

chunkx convinces with innovative approaches for sustainable learning

Microlearning units for continuity

Adaptivity for knowledge-based learning content

Self-determined and connecting learning

Simple and AI-based content creation

About chunkx

chunkx becomes part of the LUMO Labs family

About LUMO Labs

About chunkx

What is Certainty Based Marking?

How is CBM used in chunkx?

Must Certainty Based Marking always be used in chunkx?

Adaptive learning with chunkx

1. strengthen memory

2. continuous learning

3. our customers

Digital learning with chunkx

Analog learning experiences are more intense than digital ones

Advantages of digital learning apps

Combining analog and digital learning optimally

Need-based learning:

Continuous Learning:

Connecting topics instead of separating them:

Digital learning with chunkx

Factors for successful learning transfer

1. the importance of emotional events for the transfer of learning

1.1 How can irritation experiences and thus emotional learning events be achieved?

1.2 Digital support for emotional learning events

1.3 Learning content in chunkx

2. the relationship between learning time and learning transfer in corporate learning

2.1 Digital support for productive learning time

3. the importance of repetition for the transfer of learning

3.1 Digital support for learning repetitions

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