Learning Design and Technology

Learnica

Project by
Zikun Zhu
Project year
2026
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Most AI note takers do everything for you. They record the lecture and hand you a summary. However, when the exam arrives, none of it is in your head, because the tool did the thinking. Learnica takes the opposite view. It removes the wasteful struggle, recording and captioning the lecture so you never race to keep up, and it protects the struggle that is the learning. Your notes open to a skeleton you fill yourself, the AI stays locked until you think first, and afterward it shows you where you truly understood and where you only felt you did.

LDT Student(s)

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Zikun "Zayden" Zhu
Class: 2026
Areas of interest: AI in Education, Educational Technology, Adaptive and Personalized Learning, Human-Computer Interaction, UX/UI Design, STEM Education, Computing Education, Online Learning, Game-Based Learning, Curriculum Design, Teacher Education
Master's Project