Disrupting Education

The education world needs an extreme disruption.

Attention spans are depleting.  Every fleeting moment in a learner’s journey counts. Information availability has evolved from being a scarcity to an abundance. Learners are drowning in this information overload. The shelf life of acquired skills is becoming ephemeral. Learning to know is passé.  Knowing to learn is the differentiating human capability of the digital age.

Current education and learning mechanisms are just not fit for this dynamic context. The problem will also not be resolved by peppering learners with a slew of fragmented apps. Each app working in complete isolation. Each app tackling only a very small sliver of the vast learning context. A tipping point has reached. A totally new ‘systems’ approach is required to drag education into the digital era with the help of a comprehensive end to end solution.

There are no short-cuts to disruption. There is a dire need to create an un-paralleled, comprehensive learning ecosystem, powered by state-of-the-art capabilities of the digital era. An adaptive learning platform, which continuously senses the individual’s context in real-time. It then provides ultra-personalised learning interventions based on a deep understanding of needs. A gamified user experience which hooks the attention of learners and makes all other distractions fade away. AI powered learning journeys (which we call learning genome) individually crafted for each learner. Learning genomes breaking the currently prevalent linearity in learning and dynamically dissemble and then reassemble learning content using a unique network model. An AI and blockchain powered learning content marketplace. This marketplace will leverage the power of the crowd to curate content and benefit them economically from its use. Perhaps also a physical experience institute based on the same principles as the digital platform. This one of a kind alternative school (alt school) will provide a social, face to face experience platform to augment and enhance digital learning.

The mission should NOT be to add to the cacophony of learning apps which spring up every day. The need of the hour is to build a unique learning experience orchestrated seamlessly across both the physical and digital realms, with next generation AI ensuring all components are harmonized to the personal learning rhythm of each learner.

A tipping point has been reached in Education.

A new era of learning is awaiting its dawn.