Created by educators for educators, Perusall is a social learning platform that aims to improve learning outcomes by promoting student engagement and collaboration with all types of course content.
We began Perusall following a major four-year research project at Harvard University; we created the platform to serve students in our classes, and then in 2015 built the business to bring our research to students and instructors everywhere. Since then, Perusall's efficacy as a learning technology has been tested by more than 4,000,000 students at 6,000 educational institutions in 117 countries. We have grown mostly by word of mouth when instructors shared their experiences teaching using Perusall with friends and colleagues.
We don’t have any! We make all research, product, and strategic decisions ourselves in the interests of students, instructors, and educators everywhere.
In addition to being developers, teachers, education researchers, and behavioral and data scientists from Harvard University, we are an experienced entrepreneurial team: We previously built Learning Catalytics together to manage the in-classroom experience, and have also separately built five other successful businesses.
