Tutorius - One tutor per child

Tutorius is an open source project developed by nine computer engineering students at Sherbrooke University in Canada. Our project is based on the Sugar platform with the simple goal of making education easier and more accessible to teachers and children around the world and also of improving education quality in general.

The Sugar platform on which Tutorius is based is already installed on more than 400,000 laptops around the world, mainly because of its association with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. Even though Sugar isn’t the official operating system running on the XO (OLPC laptop) anymore, it is now included with most Linux distributions, remains widely used and is an interesting educational platform.

Even though Sugar already made a huge step in making learning easier and more accessible to young children, some important improvements can still be made. Discovery, sharing and collaboration are at the core of the Sugar platform, but there is a need to better structure the way students are going to explore and learn. This is what Tutorius is all about: providing an extra layer on top of the existing learning platform to guide the students and structure the way they are going to learn using it. The goal is definitively not to limit the children in their exploration and learning, it is to make it easier for them to do so by giving them the right tools and support.

Because teachers are at the core of education, Tutorius give a lot of importance to them. That is because even if we make learning easier and more interesting for children, it also has to be easy and interesting for teachers to use  Sugar and promote what they are doing with it. Tutorius will be able to make learning easier, more interesting and accessible to children and also provide the necessary tools to teachers by focusing on the following three aspects: building an interactive tutor, tutorial editor and a website.