How flexible APIs and a robust math engine powered Die Keure’s digital transformation

Educational publishers: building for the future, but legacy systems keep slowing you down?

Lieve Dewettinck and her team at Die Keure faced this exact challenge—and overcame it by taking a faster, more efficient route to modernizing their math learning experiences.

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Empowering modern blended learning

Die Keure is a Flemish educational publisher with over 80 years of experience in printing and publishing. The company developed Kabas for primary schools and Polpo for secondary schools, blending digital exercises with printed materials to give teachers the flexibility to choose the best approach for their lessons.

“In the fast-moving digital world of today and tomorrow, our slogan remains as valid as ever: education matters,” says Lieve Dewettinck, Business Analyst at Die Keure. “We’re always looking for new and efficient tools and assets to support our learning methods.”

The challenge

Digitizing content at speed and scale

To meet government learning objectives while embracing digital innovation, Die Keure committed to developing blended learning methods. Central to this strategy was the launch of Kadet—their first fully digital math method for primary education—planned for September 2024. Achieving this required the large-scale digitization of exercises from Die Keure’s printed workbooks.

While their in-house assessment tool had worked well in the past, it had gradually become technically outdated. It didn’t allow for the new question types teachers and learners were demanding, nor did it provide flexible scoring or robust reporting features. On top of that, Die Keure needed an efficient way to produce thousands of digital activities without overwhelming their authors.

“Creating blended methods increased the workload for our editorial team,” says Lieve. “If we wanted to keep our deadlines, we needed to progress quickly.”

Technical debt also posed a problem: revamping the old tool would be time-consuming and costly. Die Keure needed a modern assessment engine that could help them keep pace with the ongoing transformation of education.

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