Dear Reimaginer,
What if the principles that allow Spotify to recommend you a song, or Netflix to recommend you your next binge-watch series, could be applied to education, to direct learners towards courses and learning content suited to them? That’s the question driving the first of the four Reimagine Education speakers to whom this newsletter will be introducing you: Anna Nordell of Sana Labs, a company whose focus on machine learning is designed to bring the personalization of education that bit closer. Discover how they do it – here.
Personalized learning and artificial intelligence are also the forces driving Ethan Keiser, CEO and founder of award-winning student support service provider StudyTree App. In keeping with this year’s focus on demonstration of efficacy, he outlines two case studies in which the app has been implemented into two higher education institutions, each finding ways to ensure that students benefit from a personalised mobile academic assistant.
Our next piece of content sees another of our speakers offer their insights on questions central to the Reimagine Education initiative. Does edtech devote due attention to demonstrating efficacy? What’s the biggest challenge the tertiary education sector faces? And which is edtech’s ‘country to watch’? These questions, among others, are answered by Carla Aerts, former Director of Futures at University College London’s EDUCATE project. Read the full, exclusive interview here.
Our final featured speaker, Cassandra Horii, Director of Caltech’s Center for Teaching, Learning, and Outreach, chooses to discuss the benefits derived by institutions that emphasize educational development. Learn more about Caltech’s CTLO, and the principles on which it operates, here.
Anna’s CEO Joel Hellermark, Ethan, Carla, and Cassandra will all be elaborating on their educational visions and work at Reimagine 2018 – and will be joined by representatives from Harvard University, the University of Cambridge, Google, Amazon Web Services, and the University of California, Berkeley – and many more. To join them at our flagship conference, secure your place today!
Finally, we remind all readers that there are only five working days to ensure that your innovative work is eligible for this year’s Reimagine Education Awards, and our $50,000 funding pool. Don’t forget to start – or complete! – your application.
Never stop innovating!
Jack Moran
Steering Committee (Program Manager)
Reimagine Education