Kazakh AI platform reduces teachers’ workload

More time for teaching, less time spent on paperwork. This is what Kazakhstan’s AI-powered educational platform WONK aims to achieve. It brings together tools for both teachers and students. Teachers simply specify the topic and learning objectives, and artificial intelligence generates a lesson structure, presentation, test, or practical assignment. The system also helps create school timetables and perform other administrative tasks. As a result, teachers’ daily workload is reduced. They can save up to 12–15 hours a week, or up to 250 hours a year. For school administrators, the time saved amounts to two and a half weeks.

«Our main goal is to make teachers’ work easier. At the same time, we have made sure that the lesson plans and presentations we create do not look AI-generated in any way. That is why we have devoted a great deal of time to developing appropriate assessment methodologies. We have also focused on understanding and analyzing students themselves, so that teachers can better understand their students. Essentially, our system functions as an integration for online school diaries,» noted Yersaiyn Bekbolatov, CEO of WONK.

The platform’s capabilities are also designed to support students. An AI tutor helps them study educational material independently. This could reduce families’ spending on additional tutoring. According to the developers’ estimates, the potential economic benefit of rolling out the product nationwide could reach 70 billion tenge annually.

«We have done the preparation period with pilots last year, with 33 schools in four regions of Kazakhstan, in the Kyzylorda, Turkistan, and in the cities of Astana and Almaty. And our future plan is to expand not only into all schools of Kazakhstan, but into the foreign countries as well,» said Nursat Khobdabayev, Рroduct Мanager, WONK.

The platform is already used by more than 32,000 people, including over 5,000 teachers and more than 16,000 students. The technology has already been tested in practice, and its effectiveness has been assessed.

Web-editor: Berekekyzy Aiym