Rbean founders met in 2015, at French coding school 42. Mathieu as the pragmatic and creative architect of 42's LMS; Laurie as a driving member of the pedagogy team, fearlessly dedicated to students. Together, they gamified the 42 model.
While recognizing the benefits of the 42 model in supporting student creativity and confidence, they believed it was not the best way to train professionals with good work habits and ethics. They left 42 and, after months of traveling through Asia, joined a new school project in Vietnam.
With Laurie as Chief Academic Officer and Mathieu as Chief Technology Officer, they created a new school model that intertwines mentoring, peer learning, and a focus on soft skills. 34 students joined Intek the first year for an exciting learning journey.
After successfully setting up the project, they went back to France. Strong on their vision of providing all students with an inspiring learning experience, they decided to put their experience at the service of other educators. Thus was born Rbean.
Today, Rbean provides a learning platform that implements our pedagogical approach - that platform is available on its own. We hope that both our programs and platform will help educators turn students into confident lifelong learners.
Laurie has a mixed background in psychology (Paris 8 University) and software engineering (42). She likes to design & build systems that help others grow. She discovered her passion for education while working at 42 in Paris, and has never looked back since. For her, nothing tops watching students grow & succeed.
In connection with Rbean, Laurie also created TerraPedagogia, a training program on innovative pedagogy, as well as Codingoat, a school on ethical computing.
Mathieu started his tech journey at EPITECH, the leading European school of software engineering. There he started his quest to build the perfect LMS - a quest that would lead him to build from scratch three different ones over several schools. Today he's up to his fourth one, having capitalized on ten years of trials & errors... needless to say, this guy knows how to build software that answers school needs.
Mathieu also manages Soba LMS, a simple and modern LMS that shares many concepts with Rbean LMS.