Empático

SCENARIO

Empatico is a free platform that matches and connects K-12 classrooms across the world through live video exchanges using best-in-class meeting tools, supported by a robust content library with communication and community building tools for educators.

This platform was originally created using Ruby on Rails and React.

After our original scouting of the project we identified a non well orchestrated stack which was difficult to escalate accordingly. New management wanted to add some new features and apply enhancement to existing processes which were almost impossible to accomplish.

Some of the main inconveniences we found in the legacy platform were lack of maintenance, libraries out of date, non-performant jobs, obsolete/abandoned features and after several engineers and consultants modifications without a formal procedure over the years, the sites became almost unmaintainable. It was really hard to apply changes, create new features or even maintain what was working at the time. We suggest Empatico to have a complete site redesign.

NEXT MOVES

We are currently working on applying the company's new vision: The empathy Framework. Which will take us to a whole new level sharing Empathy across the world!

Empatico’s Empathy Framework promotes students’ healthy growth and development across three domains of empathy: emotional, cognitive, and behavioral. Framework-aligned activities and virtual exchange experiences allow students to apply their learning intrapersonally (i.e., practicing empathy towards themselves), interpersonally (i.e., towards other individuals), and intergroup settings (i.e., towards groups of people who are different from their own group). Empatico partnered with Knology, a social science think tank, to ground the Framework in the latest research in education, psychology, sociology, conflict resolution, and communication.