Area9 Lyceum offers Area9 Rhapsode™, one of the world’s most advanced learning and publishing platform, that delivers:

• Personalized and adaptive learning at scale
• Multidimensional learning, designed to work with an individual’s four competencies: knowledge, skills, character and meta-cognition
• High-level support for educators delivering personalized education in a blended environment.
• Integrated content development and curation environment
• On-the-job skills assessment tied to learning interventions
• Cutting-edge use of artificial intelligence and advanced computer science

By taking a scientific approach, Area9 Rhapsode knows how to measure the impact of training, and how to dynamically reorient the learner when appropriate. By adapting moment by moment and over longer periods of learning, the platform allows the learner to speed through things they already understand and zero-in on what matters for the learner, in the short term as well as long term. Area9 Rhapsode targets individual needs, measures confidence and improves the engagement and learning experience for each user.

Critically important to learning for long-term retention is to optimize what a learner needs to come back to – or what we refer to as “refresh.” In Area9 Rhapsode, the adaptivity works in several ways. Noticeable is that Area9 Rhapsode allows learners to learn material from scratch in ways that are significantly different from practicing or refreshing existing knowledge. When a learner finishes a module, Area9 Rhapsode has advanced models that will predict when the learner should refresh the material – highly selectively. Rhapsode builds prioritized refresh activities for each learner for each thing they study. Refresh is seamless to the learning process. Content is presented right before it might be forgotten, optimizing the learner’s path to proficiency. This way, a learner can keep focusing on learning what will matter the most – with minimal effort – thus saving up to more than 90% of the time to stay current.

Area9 Rhapsode uses a seemingly simple mechanism to help the learner become more self-aware: the confidence self-assessment. This apparently trivial mechanism, when paired with the biological model, yields profound insight into the learner’s metacognitive state, learning objective by learning objective. By selecting a confidence level for each answer, the learner reflects on their response (immediately improving accuracy and cognition) and generates key data for use by the biological engine.
Area9 Rhapsode works deliberately on improving learner’s ability to learn. This includes advanced models and technologies to assess and reward perseverance —or grit—and a learner’s ability to assess what he or she knows and does not. Three different performance measures are provided:

1. Knowledge, which is a score for how well knowledge learning has been accomplished.
2. Grit, which is a score for the learner’s ability to keep working even when something is hard.
3. Meta-learning which is predominantly based upon how consciously competent or incompetent the learner has been.

Based on peer-reviewed learning science research, Area9 Rhapsode combines formative assessment with proprietary “biological” algorithms to dramatically improve the efficiency and effectiveness of education.
Area9 Rhapsode is a cloud-based platform and is fully responsive. It works seamlessly in a desktop browser and on handheld devices (iPhone, iPad, Android. etc.). Moreover, Area9 Rhapsode has many integration options including single-sign-on, LMS integration via standards like SCORM and LTI, LRS integration through xAPI, and custom integrations.

Area9 Rhapsode is an entire ecosystem for learning with the most powerful learning authoring and management tools ever developed:

Area9 Rhapsode LEARNER™: is a personalized experience that applies science and technology to improve learning.

Area9 Rhapsode CURATOR™: an adaptive authoring platform, Area9 Rhapsode CURATOR offers curriculum design, mapping and tagging technologies, content authoring, content maintenance, full multimedia and interactive support, author quizzes, exams, microlearning, adaptive eBooks, linear eLearning and ILT content.

Area9 Rhapsode EDUCATOR™: is the way for educators to manage students — with all of them learning in personalized ways. Organizations can handle assignments and learning paths with early warning technology to highlight at-risk students through advanced analytics with custom dashboards and custom reports.

Area9 Rhapsode PUBLISHER™: is a comprehensive fully integrated workflow and content development environment, supporting both print and digital content production.

Area9 Rhapsode READER™: Area9 Rhapsode READER’S adaptive eBook bridges the gap between manuals or textbooks and personalized learning. It offers personalized learning experience that combines textual material, such as a textbook or manual, with multimedia such as video or simulation that’s also accessible through the web or on dedicated mobile apps and powered by adaptivity. Area9 Rhapsode READER can create a full-functioning eBook with highlighting, note taking, bookmarking and search.