Sutra - Create conversational courses that actually get completed

@star_boat we've been facilitating group experiences for the last 10 years. We're bringing a lot of our understanding of group process into how we train the AI. We find that optimizing for meaningful responses is more about the prompt than the AI though. And the AI can also be really helpful and designing the prompt.

@star_boat thanks for your thoughtful question, a lot of our AI training comes from our own facilitation expertise. I'm an educator and an instructional designer and have been facilitating learning experiences for 20 years of my career. So we have certain inputs we give the AI to evaluate comments and make connections between people. Same for the quality of the prompt which is the key to engaging people in a conversation in the first place.

@natashasell Thanks for your reply, that's help a lot. :)

@alena_bach thanks so much for your support. Yes we are definitely trying to innovate to address those challenged. Curious about your experience with online programs? How has that been for you? What's worked well or not so well?

@alena_bach Ya, there's so many challenges with online learning and we're hopeful to make a meaningful contribution in this space.

@alena_bach Thank you so much! We appreciate your support! 🎉

@mitia it really depends. In Sutra, you don't directly interact with the AI agent. You engage with prompts that guide discussion that you then have with other participants. The AI functions like a facilitator. How were you think it could support language learning?

@mitia I believe it can be, although that is not our target audience.

@lorenzsell hmm I think it would be possible. It is not necessary to be an AI tutor, it would be enough if the foreign language course is live or recorded, and that the students' answers are kept and compared below in the comments, which answers are compared and corrected by the AI tutor. If you know what i mean? Spelling errors that occur here would be corrected and supplemented with auto correct anyway, so there should be no problems here. But writing would force the student to think in a foreign language, which I think is great, because writing stimulates thinking, which would force students to think in the language they are learning. Compared to other online language learning platforms, which typically focus on filling in forms with individual words and symbols rather than constructing full sentences, I believe it could be possible to enhance the experience. This approach could be very beneficial for learning foreign languages.

@maia_buljeta Thank you Maia!

@maia_buljeta Thank you so much....I feel your enthusiasm and it's giving me a huge lift in this day.

@natashasell @lorenzsell My absolute pleasure! Absolutely wonderful work!

@akshith_pottigari thank you Akshith. Appreciate your support!

@akshith_pottigari Ah, yes, thank you so much for seeing the solution so clearly.

@jennifer_regular So gret to see you here Jennifer. Thanks for being part of our evolving journey!

@jennifer_regular thank you so much, you've captured what's at the heart of our work so beautifully. I appreciate you so much!

@tonyhanded we're actually in the process of really narrowing our focus on this particular feature. Like you said, few other tools integrate the conversation piece directly into the flow of content like we do and we believe this is a key piece of the puzzle.

@tonyhanded thank you so much for your thoughtfulness here. I think other platforms are either learning platforms who were primarily designed around content delivery and later learned that people want community too so they added on a community forum space somewhere for people to connect, but it's not working so well. For us, it was important from the very beginning to integrate where the learning and conversation happen seamlessly.

@natashasell yep that’s exactly it. It’s an after thought.

@goyashy Hi Yash. Awesome. We'd love to hear your feedback. What kind of courses do you teach?

@lorenzsell Mostly Product Growth and GenAI.

@goyashy amazing....so you know this space well. How do you currently run your programs? Are they self-paced or cohort based or a combo? We'd love for you to give Sutra a try and let us know how it feels and compares to what you're currently doing. And feel free to reach out and we can do a private demo and walk through it together.

@goyashy What platforms do you currently use to teach? Most of the programs on Sutra have been leadership focused. We're exploring new content verticals to expand into. Would love your feedback if you're interested in prototyping.

@lorenzsell @natashasell currently work on marketplaces, selfhosted courses and direct mentor live sessions, so i've literally tried it all out, but the course completion is a problem across all of these. What you're doing is interesting and new, and i'd love to see if this method works for teaching!

@asby That's cool. I'd love to know where you experienced a similar feature. We haven't seen it built out this smoothly anywhere else.

@asby thanks Serge for your support! Yeah, would love to hear more about your experience with other courses and what worked or didn't to keep you engaged?

@michel_van_amsterdam1 So great to see you hear Michel! Thank you for your support. We do put so much love into this work. And, one of the biggest blessings our our lives is that we get to work with people that put so much love into their work too! Big hug!

@michel_van_amsterdam1 Thank you so much for this feedback and validation. We do put so much love and care into not only creating a platform that can be of service to our creators and their audience, but also into creating an amazing community around the platform of people who truly care about transforming our world for the better. Thank you for being one of them!