Learn Smart Pakistan

Learn Smart Pakistan (LSP) is a gamified online learning platform for Pakistani schoolchildren, run by Knowledge Platform, which describes itself on its homepage as Pakistan's most experienced and comprehensive digital learning solutions provider. LSP is a learner product with a school side: students aged 6 to 18 sign up and work through digital lesson plans in English, math and science, aligned with the National Curriculum, while the content runs on the company's own learning management system, Ultrabot. The product page says LSP supports "upwards of 160,000 learners from over 7,700 schools across 400 cities, small towns, and villages in Pakistan."

What a student gets

The product page describes LSP as an online learning platform "loaded with thousands of digital lesson plans" that contain animated videos, games, activities and assessments. The subjects named are English, math and science, and the feature list sums up the offer as "thousands of assessments, games, and videos to learn topics in English, Math, and Science."

Under "Interactive Digital Content," the page describes an assortment of interactive videos, practice exercises and games for brushing up on skills and concepts. The study pattern is simple and self-directed. Students watch the content videos on their own, test their understanding with assessments, and play educational games to strengthen the concepts. The assessments are presented as diagnostic: the page says they "highlight your strengths and helps address your weaknesses," so a student can see which topics need more work before an exam.

Access is open to individual students. According to the page, any Pakistani student can use LSP by visiting learnsmartpakistan.org, creating an account and enrolling in any lesson plan they choose. Because a student picks lesson plans rather than following a fixed course, LSP works as a library to dip into for a weak topic as well as a way to work through a subject.

The wide age band, 6 to 18, is notable. The same platform is meant to serve a primary pupil learning through animated videos and games and a secondary student preparing for board exams, and the page says the gamified format is what lets it attract "all levels of students."

Exam preparation

LSP is pitched first as exam preparation. The page says it "can be used as an exam prep tool for students like you who wish to learn more and improve their performance in the board or final exams." Because the content is aligned with the National Curriculum, the site tells students to use the materials "to prepare for your board exams," promises "all the relevant content" for passing them, and the feature list opens with the claim that the gamified experience will improve board exam results. That claim is the company's own; the page gives no figures for it.

Honey Coins and monthly challenges

The feature that sets LSP apart is its reward system. For every video watched, game played or assessment taken, LSP awards learners "Honey Coins." The games are described as "filled with thought-provoking questions," with coins for every right answer.

Coins feed into competition. Under the heading "Learn & Earn," the page says students can take part in monthly challenges and compete with students from all over Pakistan, and that the coins "can be redeemed for exciting prizes, such as tablets or local and international scholarships!" For a student who responds to points and competition, this turns revision into something with a visible score and a prize at the end.

How it runs: Ultrabot

LSP is delivered through Ultrabot, which the page calls Knowledge Platform's "data-rich Learning Management System," now in its 10th generation. Ultrabot serves the content from the cloud, which the company says lets users anywhere in the country reach the platform. This is where LSP's school-facing side sits: the same system that hosts a student's lessons, games and assessment results is Knowledge Platform's LMS, and the page offers a "Request a Demo" route alongside the student sign-up. The learner count is given alongside a count of schools, more than 7,700 across Pakistan, and the page adds that LSP learners are "spread all across Pakistan."

The company behind it

Knowledge Platform's homepage sets out the wider organization. Its mission is "To transform the quality of K-12 education across Pakistan at a low cost by supporting schools, educators, and learners with 21st-century educational technologies, content, and methodologies." The homepage counts more than 600,000 students engaged, more than 2,000 courses developed since 2000, more than 20,000 teachers trained, courses in more than 30 languages, and more than 600 schools served globally.

LSP is one product among several. The menus also list Bonzo, Coach, Studio, Competitions and Sitarey, and the homepage features projects on technology in Islamabad public school networks, financial literacy for young people, and female literacy. Recent news items include a partnership with Zong 4G on digital learning games and competitions, a green learning farm at a primary school to promote climate literacy, and an award at an SDGs innovative financing challenge for environmental literacy work. For a family, the relevance is that LSP comes from a company that has been developing courses since 2000 and runs the platform on its own LMS.

Prices and signing up

The LSP page shows "Sign Up" and "Request a Demo" buttons but no prices, plans or school license terms.

Who it suits

Learn Smart Pakistan suits Pakistani students between 6 and 18 who study on the National Curriculum and want extra practice in English, math or science, especially in the run-up to board or final exams. It suits students who are motivated by points, rewards and competition, since Honey Coins, monthly challenges against students across the country and prizes such as tablets and scholarships are built into the platform. The self-study format, with videos, games and diagnostic assessments, fits a student who wants to find and fix weak topics on their own schedule, from anywhere with an internet connection. Schools can request a demo of the platform and of the Ultrabot LMS behind it.

It fits less well for students outside Pakistan or on other curricula, since the content follows the Pakistani National Curriculum and board exams, and for learners who want subjects beyond English, math and science. It is a self-study platform, so a student who needs a live teacher to explain a topic will use it alongside classes rather than instead of them.