I wanted to talk about the company for a long time Panorama who rose to fame because he announced in October 2013 that he had raised 4 million dollars from several investors including Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Google Ventures, Ashton Kutcher Investments and Yale University among others.
The key point of Panorama is contribute to the improvement of education primary school and high school, using data analysis and conducting surveys of teachers, parents and students in order to identify gaps and aspects to improve for managers to make decisions. For example, their surveys allow to know the involvement and participation of parents in the educational process, the situation of bullying and safety in school, the participation of students in their training process, the quality of teachers, etc. Panorama is used in 4,000 schools attended by more than one million students in United States. The company was founded by three Yale students: Aaron Feuer, Xan Tanner and David Carel.
The reasons why investors have decided to enter this company are unknown, although I believe that the educational process needs metrics and decision support systems that improve the current situation. In addition, and with the arrival of distance learning, the Monitoring of the use of technology by parents, teachers and students is essential and I imagine that this company is very well positioned to do it and do it well.
Based in Boston, Panorama is a data analysis company specializing in K-12 education (primary and secondary in the North American system) with seven employees. The company helps schools throughout the process of analyzing and obtaining information, thus collaborating in the design of the survey, obtaining the answers, the presentation of reports and the analysis for monitoring.
On the website you can see examples of surveys and they are quite graphic (see image), simple, with key aspects to review and on which you can put the focus for the analysis. In addition, their extensive experience in the hundreds of schools in which they are implanted ensure that their ability to implement their analysis system is fast and with rapid results.
I think we will continue to see examples of how the information analysis is essentialFor example, as Mar Garriga de Sanoen told us, Spain is launching Infantium, which provides metrics about children's use of applications on mobile devices. So he told us how this knowledge can be used to make adaptive applications, adjust its degree of difficulty to the child's evolution or to the teacher's criteria.
We will be attentive to know how these types of tools and applications evolve because we will surely know more initiatives soon, I hope that in Spain too.
