The global workforce faces an “epochal transition” as digitization, automation, and artificial intelligence (AI) make further inroads – a message that took center stage at the World Economic Forum at Davos, where the need to retrain…
Without question, education technology (EdTech) will revolutionize how learners at all levels – K-12, post-secondary, and even corporate learning – achieve skill mastery. But given where we are today, with assumptions to correct and fears to…
Chestnut Hill, Mass. – Sept. 21, 2017 – Area9, an adaptive learning platform that combines cognitive research and computer science, was recognized as a Hot Vendor in learning by Aragon Research, a leading research and advisory…
Every brain is different; therefore, learning must be personalized to meet each learner’s needs. But how can this be accomplished in an e-learning environment? Our answer, developed and refined over the past two decades, is a…
Peter Diamandis, co-founder and chairman of Singularity University, speaking at a Clinton Global Initiative forum in 2014, delivered an eye-opening perspective to Bill Clinton: A Maasai warrior with Google on a mobile phone had greater access…
We have struggled for years to come up with an intuitive concept for how to establish a common quality mindset for how to think about quality of educational technologies or inventions.
Despite frequent sips of liquid and checking her blood sugar every 2 hours, Nicole’s vomiting only worsened. The usual instructions on how much insulin to use didn’t seem to be working for some reason. Her blood…
During the first weeks of my sophomore year in high school (first year of the Danish three-year high school), a classmate slammed his hand on the table and said to the science teacher “You are freakin’…
Picture a dozen students gathered around a piano for a lesson. One sits at the keys, receiving instruction from the teacher. For the rest who stand and watch, it’s mostly irrelevant—a waste of their time and…