Allogy’s story starts in 2009, at the Institute of Simulation and Training at the University of Central Florida. That’s where members of the Mixed Emerging Technology Integration Lab (METIL) came together to create a platform for custom mobile development projects for government, retail, automotive and higher education. 

Back then, the iPhone was only two years old, Android a little over one year. We were researching how mobile learning is different from traditional desktop eLearning. Our big idea was that you no longer had to stay in and learn, then go out and apply. Mobile learning put eLearning right with you in the field, so you could top up, remind yourself, or grab the knowledge you needed right at the point of need. That has major implications for clinicians, technicians, folks in the logistics chain and anyone else who can’t just work from home.

Our first advances were in places like Kenya, where expensive desktop PCs were rare but more affordable mobile devices were becoming ubiquitous. Just putting learning content on SD cards meant students no longer had to commute hours into Nairobi for school, only for orientation and exams. Their 50% attrition fell to 0% and academic performance remained the same. We still have many overseas projects we support through an open-source version of Capillary, though we don’t generate any revenue from those projects.