When the pandemic hit, Dan Avida and Daphne Koller saw their two daughters’ schooling change overnight. "We didn’t think they were getting a particularly good education on Zoom‚ which was designed for video conferencing‚ not learning‚" says Avida.
The couple saw their kids checking out social media or even movies during class. So Avida‚ a tech entrepreneur‚ and Koller‚ a computer scientist who cofounded Coursera‚ the online education platform‚ in 2012‚ started thinking about what a product designed specifically for online classrooms might look like. Engageli went live seven months later.
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