We created this innovation to support learners and teachers who want to organize their learning environments into more flexible, independent, and personalized than traditional education models often provide. Many schools and families, especially in homeschooling or alternative learning settings, struggle to find tools that both encourage student agency and align with national curriculum goals (national learning objectives). Our platform was designed to fill this gap—combining pedagogical quality with freedom of learning. It empowers students to take ownership of their learning while giving educators and parents the tools to guide, support, and track progress in meaningful ways.
In practice, our innovation is an online learning platform or a Learning Management System (LMS) that supports both school-based education and homeschooling. The platform combines structured assignments with flexible tools for documentation, project-based learning and reflection. Students can complete tasks, plan and track their own projects, write learning diaries, and use features like mind maps, flashcards, and a creative gallery.
Teachers and parents can customize which parts of each task are required and whether AI tools may be used for support. The platform includes built-in gamification, visual clarity, and motivational elements such as scoring and progress tracking.
Unlike traditional learning platforms, KC is designed not only for delivering content but for actively building knowledge. It encourages student agency, self-reflection, and ownership of learning. The platform is grounded in learning science and aligned with the Finnish national core curriculum, making it easier to ensure that students’ learning meets national educational goals in both schools and home education.
The assignments are designed to cover all of elementary education and so that they usually don't have any right or wrong answer, or at least the students have a lot of flexibility in how to answer and how much time to spend on each assignment. Some of the assignments are tasks and group tasks which don't require screen time, or actually guide the students to do something away from the screens.
The platform has been gaining traction through growing interest in flexible, student-centered learning, as well as recommendations from educators and homeschooling communities. Since it's launch in 2012, it has been used by over 1000 students across Finland. Interest is increasing as more families and schools look for flexible, research-based tools that support both individual learning paths and alignment with the national curriculum.
A new version of the platform was launched for test use in fall 2024, based on user feedback and recent developments in learning science and Artificial Intelligence. The official launch will be on 1st August 2025.
The updated version includes more tools for student reflection, self-assessment, and creative expression, as well as clearer visual design and improved usability. Many new features improving deeper learning have been added to the system, e.g.
- learning journal
- project planning tools (project-based learning)
- life goals (combined with curricular goals)
- art gallery
- shared schedule (open for students, teachers and parents to co-create events and study sessions)
- story corner
- flashcards
- practice tests
- mind map of the topics already learned (to make learning more visual)
- shared virtual 2D environment (aimed especially for online students)
We have also expanded teacher and parent controls to better support different learning environments, whether in schools or at home.
If you’re interested in trying the platform, simply contact our team at school@feeniks-koulu.fi. We’ll be happy to tell you more, answer your questions, and help you get started with a trial. Whether you’re representing a school or a homeschooling family, our coaches will support you in exploring how the platform can best serve your needs.
