Yonsei University Adopts Visual Collaboration Tool 'ALLO'

Yonsei University announced the official adoption of 'ALLO,' a visual collaboration platform, to foster an innovative educational environment. This decision comes after a pilot operation in the second semester of last year yielded significant results, greatly enhancing real-time interaction and collaborative learning between instructors and learners, thus acknowledging its effectiveness. According to an analysis of adoption performance jointly conducted by Yonsei University's Center for Teaching & Learning Innovation (ICTL) and ALLO, the level of instructor-learner interaction and overall satisfaction dramatically improved after ALLO's implementation. Notably, learner satisfaction was remarkably high in group learning activities based on collaboration. ALLO, developed by BeeCanvas, headquartered in San Francisco, USA, is an intuitive whiteboard-based collaboration tool that has already proven its value in various industrial sectors where creative collaboration is essential, such as design, marketing, and planning. A survey conducted by ICTL revealed that instructor-learner interaction increased by an impressive 12.6% in classes utilizing ALLO, and the method of conducting team projects and learners' academic achievement also showed positive improvements. Indeed, one professor stated that while it was difficult to encourage active student participation with traditional PPT or PDF-based lecture material sharing, after ALLO's adoption, students' participation and academic achievement remarkably improved as instructors and students worked simultaneously in a single canvas space, exchanging immediate feedback. Yongnam Hong, CEO of ALLO, expressed pride in the achievement of contributing to university education innovation, despite ALLO originally being an enterprise collaboration solution. He stated plans to focus R&D capabilities on enabling ALLO to solve challenges in the educational field that existing Learning Management Systems (LMS) or edutech solutions have not been able to address. Building on this adoption case at Yonsei University, ALLO plans to expand partnerships with major universities both domestically and internationally, and to newly design and offer Artificial Intelligence (AI) features tailored for higher education innovation. Meanwhile, since relocating its headquarters to San Francisco in 2019, ALLO has attracted a total of 10 billion Korean Won in investment from sources including video conferencing solution Zoom, Atinum Investment, and former NVIDIA Chief Scientist David Kirk. It also has a history of successful partnerships with Japan's SoftBank and Korea's Naver Whale.