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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666">Hello members of ACLA,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666">We are US based Non-profit organization which is focused in developing EFL learning technologies from bots to online learning games. We are looking for academic collaborations to help
with our research. Our platform is used by 250,000 students per year and we partner with schools in multiple countries to deploy our learning modules.
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666">Our most recent project is focused on building graph of words extracted from children’s books and movies and incorporated into words learning games for ESL students. For example, such
system powers our words learning game:</span> <a href="https://games.dtml.org/games/wordsbattle">
https://games.dtml.org/games/wordsbattle</a> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666">We started number of experiments on our platform and looking to collaborate with academia to publish results of that research work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666">In March 2018 our organization received a
<u><a href="https://blog.dtml.org/post/distance-teaching-and-mobile-learning-are-crowned-champions-of-2018-microsoft-hack-for-good-jump-start-hackathon"><span style="color:#666666">Champion award on Hack-For-Good</span></a></u> event organized by Microsoft.
It validates our innovative approach to distance teaching. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666">If you are interested to collaborate in using our platform for research of ESL learning, please contact Aleksey Sinyagin at
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:11.0pt;text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"color:#222222;background:white">Platform usage from December 2017 to May 2018 (191,389 users)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:11.0pt;text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"color:#222222;background:white">Platform usage from December 2017 to May 2018 (user distribution by country of origin)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:11.0pt;text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"color:#222222;background:white">Pilot project in Colombia: students are using DTML platform at ESL class<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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