Grasple: mission, innovations, and open business model
Grasple is a social enterprise. Our mission is to make knowledge on math and statistics openly accessible to everyone. We strive to help people learn these difficult concepts by practicing with high-quality exercises, created by educators who build on each other’s work.
To achieve this we have built an online practice platform with which teachers can create exercises and online lessons together and share them openly with their students and the rest of the world.
To ensure we can keep doing this and not be dependent on donations, we have created a business model very different from regular publishers: free for individuals, and educational institutions pay for extra functionalities, integration, and support.
Grasple is used at more than 42 universities and colleges (>65% of the Dutch market), including TUDelft and Utrecht University. Their students have already given more than 82 million answers! Currently the platform is used by more than 100.000 learners, directly via our platform and indirectly such as the EDx MOOC on Calculus by TU Delft
“I really like working with Grasple! I like that I can practice and immediately see how I am doing. Too bad we don’t use this in my other courses..”
~ Student at Utrecht University
"For me, this is the killer feature: Grasple offers an uniquely well-thought infrastructure to content development, curation, and distribution. Content is the hard part of teaching, and only Grasple gets this right. Plus, the platform makes very competent use of a powerful symbolic maths engine for verification and feedback."
~ Thore Husfeldt - Professor, Deputy Head of Department at IT University of Copenhagen
