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The Open Taskpool is an open-source set of community-curated language-learning exercises based on texts and translations contributed by the global community.

The learning tasks are based on the content-first (mobile-first) open-source standard bitmark. The entire source code of the Open Taskpool is open source, hosted on a Github repository and can be called via a specified API.

  • The Open Taskpool consortium coordinates the vocabulary collection and ensures the quality check of the generated tasks. The semi-automatically generated pool of exercises reduces the excessive resource requirements of content creation for language learning. It also enables state-of-the-art AI technologies to drive the adaptive components of digital learning products – e.g. personalized feedback, task recommendations, and student statistics.

    The Open Taskpool is made possible thanks to the generous support and philanthropic investments from Gebert Rüf Foundation and Stiftung Mercator Switzerland. As an open source project, bitmark invites new partners to contribute to the growth of the task pool and to continuously improve quality and automation.

The Open Taskpool is for you if you are ...

  • Outpace your competition by using existing learning content, so you can focus on your business.

  • You are not yet digital, but aspire to be? Our existing content makes digitization easy and breezy.

  • You have no content yet? Use the Open Taskpool to launch new products.

How it works?

1. Choose your new learning content from 24,000 tasks

The language set is based on a vocabulary base of around 1’000 words out of which 3,000 sentence pairs are automatically generated and manually reviewed.

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German for Ukrainian speakers "UKR - DE”

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English for German speakers " DE-ENG”

2. Choose from 4 different Task Types

WRITE WHAT YOU HEAR | TRANSLATE THE SENTENCE | FILL IN THE MISSING WORD | CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD

3. Enrich Your Content With AI-based Feedback

Our partner Taskbase developed a dedicated feedback API to score the tasks of the bitmark Taskpool and to enable automated personalized feedback for the supported task types.

The Taskbase Feedback Engine® provides formative feedback at scale to develop complex learning scenarios.

The scope of the Open Taskpool is determined by the following parameters

# task types (bitmark bits), e.g. #essay #multiple-choice #audio

# languages (to be learned and base language), e.g. German-English

# vocabulary (word) base, e.g. 1,000 words selected from the Oxford 3,000 CEFR A1

# generated sentence pairs (after quality check), e.g. from the Taskbase database

 Good To Know

  • The Taskpool partner Taskbase developed two APIs on how to access the Taskpool exercises and the Taskbase feedback. The complete open-source documentation of the Taskpool is published on GitHub.

    Taskpool API: https://taskpool.taskbase.com/redoc

    Taskbase Feedback API for bitmark: https://bitmark-api.taskbase.com/documentation

    Taskpool GitHub documentation: https://github.com/taskbase/taskpool

  • bitmark is the world's only strictly content-first open-source standard for creating learning content. bitmark is used to describe interactive, content-first learning material. It is mainly used in the process of digitizing existing learning material and in the workflow of creating new digital, mobile text books. Thanks to its open source basis, bitmark is also suitable for use as an internal format and in authring workflows without any risk.

    The core of bitmark is interoperability of learning content between platforms, content creators, content owners like publishers and developers. The development and dissemination of the bitmark standard is supported by the non-profit bitmark Association.

  • The Taskbase Feedback Engine® provides out-of-box automated personalized feedback for all task types of the Taskpool. The Vocabulary Chapter of Taskbase's Showroom exemplifies the personalized feedback that you can expect for the Taskpool exercises. Visit https://showroom.taskbase.com/

    The philanthropic partners, Gebert Rüf Foundation and Mercator Foundation Switzerland, cover the Taskbase Feedback Engine® licensing fees for deploying Ukrainian-German language learning applications. Eligible for license funding within a limited user and interaction cap are Taskpool partners, Swiss EdTech Collider members, or non-profit organizations.

Our Partners

  • EdTech Collider

    The Swiss EdTech Collider, a not-for profit association founded in 2017 located in the dynamic and vibrant EPFL Innovation Park and in close proximity to LEARN - EPFL’s Center for Learning Sciences in Lausanne, is Switzerland’s first collaborative and membership space dedicated to ambitious entrepreneurs transforming education and learning through technology.

    Learn more at edtech-collider.ch/

  • Smartest

    Smartest is a learning platform to automatically generate interactive tests and exercises for students and teachers using advanced machine learning algorithms. We believe learning should have no limits other than interest.

    Learn more at smartest.io/schools/

  • Taskbase

    Taskbase built the world’s #1 feedback engine for learning content. For further demos, please visit the Taskbase Showroom. If you would like to know more about personalized feedback and the Taskbase Feedback Engine®, please write to support@taskbase.com.

    Learn more at taskbase.com

The Open Taskpool is made possible thanks to the generous support and philanthropic investments from Gebert Rüf Foundation and Stiftung Mercator Switzerland.