Nava Levy presents LerGO, a non-profit venture to democratize kids' education through open-source, online lessons. LerGO aims to provide free, high-quality animated lessons on any device by harnessing community contributions. It will combine the usability of paid tutorials with the openness of open educational resources and enable simple lesson creation. LerGO seeks to make quality education accessible worldwide through multilingual content optimized for limited bandwidth. An upcoming crowdfunding campaign aims to develop the platform and initial lessons.

1. LerGO – Let’s Democratize Kids Education
IsraelDev – Drink-Pitch-Mingle Event
Nava Levy, Founder
LerGO – Educate yourself

2. What is your dream?
Kids everywhere have dreams and aspirations

3. And education is the key means for fulfilling them

4. Yet, the situation is today, that most kids
need to complement public education …

5. …with costly private lessons
+
Public Education
Private Lessons

6. Well over 50% of Kids are
Taking Costly Private Lessons
100%
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%
Israel
Korea
India
Source: Wikipedia, Meizav Israel
“Costs associated with shadow
education are staggering”
Source: Wikipedia, Private Tutoring

7. Social Gap
Increasing
“No Rich Kid Left Behind
….Whatever we’ve been doing in
our schools, it hasn’t reduced
educational inequality between
children from upper- and lowerincome families…
Prof Reardon, Stanford, April 2013
“….private tutoring
can…maintain and
exacerbate social
inequalities"
Source: Wikipedia

8. Today, all of us together can change this. With LerGO.

9. A bit about me
• Cloud: Many years in HiTech, also as VP Cloud in
cVidya and Head of Cloud Program in Amdocs
• Education: Many years in education, also as
volunteer private tutoring for kids from low
socio-economic background
• CrowdSourcing: Plenty of experience in
contributing to crowd sourcing platforms
My name is Nava Levy and I believe that today’s technology
provides an opportunity to realize the vision of free private
lessons for all.

10. LerGO’s Vision – Democratizing Kids Education
• LerGO is a new non-profit social venture dedicated to
self education
• Our goal is to provide every child with free access to
high quality, animated and interactive online lessons
• This will be possible through LerGO’s open-source
cloud platform that will harness the community to
easily create content
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11. Internet
Ethics
Health &
Biology
Algebra
Negotiations
& Mediations
Physics
Diversity
Grammar
Sustainability
Spelling
History
Learning
Strategies
Geography
Critical
Thinking
Foreign
Languages
Kids will use this content to self-learn all K12
topics, enjoyably and at their own pace.
Geometry

12. I know that online lessons are not new.
Yet , they haven’t had much impact on kids’ education.
How is LerGO different?
LerGO is a solution that takes the best from two approaches
for online learning:

13. High
Usability
The high usability of paid Flash based tutorials

14. High
Usability
Openness,
Scalability &
Affordability
With the openness, scalability and affordability of Open
Educational Resources (OERs)

15. Orchestration
High
Usability
Openness,
Scalability &
Affordability
LerGO will combine these into one powerful orchestrated
solution that makes finding the right lesson at the right
quality as simple as a Google search

16. Animated & Interactive
LerGO will enable anyone to easily create animated, interactive
lessons . A cute animated character will guide the student through
the lesson step by step.

17. Simple to Create
Compose Question
Lesson Playlist
Putting together a lesson or adding a question can be as
simple as writing an e-mail

18. Scalable
Whether you have an hour or only 5 minutes to spare, you
will still be able to contribute to LerGO This makes LerGO an
extremely scalable solution.

19. Orchestrated
Finding the right lesson at the right quality will be enabled through
orchestration, with top down regulations and editors, who will
edit, tag and certify content, and bottom up ratings.

20. To Kids Everywhere
We want LerGO to make an impact to kids everywhere including
the developing regions.
So we are building LerGO with 4 principles in mind.

21. 1.
Free, NO
Ads, Open
IT’S
FREE!
Edit.Mix.Share
Lessons will be free, with no ads and open so that everyone
can edit, mix and match lessons or improve existing ones,
as well as share on Facebook or embed on any website.

22. 2. Multilingual
& Multicultural
We’re building LerGO as a multilingual platform, so that
lessons can be created in any of the supported languages or
easily translated and adapted to the relevant cultural context

23. 3.
Any Device
Third, LerGO lessons will be accessible through any device
including mobile devices which are key for the developing
regions and kids at large, who often have access to mobile
devices only.

24. 4.
Content also
for limited
bandwidth
And finally, all quizzes with be accessible also via limited
bandwidth.

25. It’s not just
me…
Contributing to LerGO is an interdisciplinary group of
talented professionals, either as part time contributors or
in advisory board roles. All of them, like me, are doing it
on a voluntary basis.

26. Coming Soon…
LerGO’s
Crowd Funding
Campaign!
•We have worked really hard to get to this point…but we
need the funds for the development of the platform, so
that we can load it with our initial content, and open it to
the world.
•For this reason we are about to do a crowd funding
campaign on Indiegogo… and we will need your help,
and your friends help to help support it.
How you can help:
1) “Like” on Facebook –
www.facebook.com/lergo.org ; follow on
Linkedin, sign-up at www.lergo.org
2) Support our upcoming CrowdFunding
campaign
3) Become a LerGOvangelist – spread the word
4) Start/continue creating lessons

27. What is your dream?
LerGO isn’t just about creating high quality online lessons, and it’s not just about
providing an alternative to costly private lessons ….

28. Educate Yourself
LerGO is about giving the community tools to take education to the next level, democratizing
education and reducing the social gap in the process.
LerGO is about helping the dreams of every kid come true and it needs your help to make it happen.

29. Thank You 
www.facebook.com/lergo.org
www.lergo.org
nava@lergo.org
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