With new recommendation engine, Alleyoop wants to be a tutor for teens

Gigaom

6-Jun

With new recommendation engine, Alleyoop wants to be a tutor for teens

Technology can’t replace the experience of working with a personal tutor, but Pearson-backed education startup Alleyoop is hoping its software can come close. The Boston-based company, which launched in February to help teens become better prepared for college, tailors its online experience to each student’s learning needs. For the past four months, the startup itself has been learning from the collective interactions of its student users and, Wednesday, Alleyoop said it was rolling out a new recommendation engine that’s been made smarter by the tens of thousands of inputs.

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