The biggest problem of domestic AI training is that the pure online courses are too boring.
In the context of 5G and the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence has been set as a formal specialty by more colleges and universities, and AI education has become an increasing number of parents since childhood. Consensus. Ubijet takes AI education as its core and is aimed at public schools. It provides integrated services including course content, AI teaching aids, teacher training, competition practice and other links. The company has developed a curriculum system covering three major directions: mathematical literacy, AI skills, and business thinking. Each subdivision direction covers more than 50 courses. Extend to the depth of 12th grade.
At the end of 2019, Ubiquit, a strategic partner of Ubisoft, completed the B-round financing led by the founder of Qiming Venture Capital Huang Jinsong said that according to the students’ acceptance of AI courses, the company designed three teaching modes, using the traditional face-to-face teaching mode for most students. For students who have deeper knowledge of AI, they can also provide project-based teaching and research project-style teaching.
Huang Jinsong believes that a major pain point of current domestic AI training is that pure online courses are too boring. The thinking courses that have higher requirements for thinking skills are less attractive to students in the absence of interesting conditions. low. In response to this problem, the company adopts an offline ToB model stationed in public schools, packaging course content, online systems, teaching tools and teacher training , and conducting AI teaching offline to help students experience in interaction pleasure.
(Youbijie enters Yuhang District Experimental Primary School)
In order to enhance the fun and experience of AI courses, Ubiquiti combines hardware and content to form a unique model in a pure online and pure hardware industry. At the same time, it focuses on organizing AI events. Actively cooperate with enterprises.
In detail, the events organized by “Ubijet” are divided into three categories: International events, regional events and company-run events. Youbijie is currently the Chinese organizer of two major international events, including the United States YouthJunior Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, and the Global Inventors Conference under the Ford Foundation of the United States. The latter’s 2019 China trials attracted more than 500 participants. The significance of holding the competition is that on the one hand, it provides a stage for students to further consolidate what they have learned in the classroom; on the other hand, the child’s learning results are embodied in the form of competition results, which becomes the reason for parents and schools to pay for education.
In terms of corporate cooperation, Ubitus will select corporate experts to communicate with children on campus based on the projects students are working on. For example, the company has reached a cooperation with a leading company in the Beidou Navigation System Industrial Park. If a student group in Shanghai encounters a problem while doing bridge surveying, the company’s experts can answer questions for students.
When talking about teachers, Huang Jinsong said that training excellent teachers is a challenge. Teachers need to understand both teaching and interaction with students, as well as computer, artificial intelligence and automation, and there is a huge gap in the number of professionals. The first artificial intelligence graduates set up by the country will only be available in the summer of 2020. graduation. In addition, the school also faces the digging of companies such as IT companies and artificial driving companies, and the teachers are relatively mobile.
“Ubijet” has set up a training system and certification mechanism for teachers. In the future, some domestic universities will be invited to join the certification process. It will also work with some foreign universities to do international certification and upgrade the system from enterprise level to industry. level.
The determination of local governments to implement AI and the financial strength directly determine the possibility of purchase. “Ubijet” attaches great importance to the scale of schools in the region when it settles in, and there must be at least 100 schools in the administrative district before it can form a scale. Effect, the company has reached cooperation with thousands of schools within two years.
About this financing, Su Xin, a partner of Yuanxing Capital, said, “The integration and penetration of artificial intelligence education and practice in the youth education stage is the basis for the further improvement of China’s comprehensive national strength in the future. , Yuanxing highly recognizes Unibit’s layout and development potential in the field.