Ideas @Davos: Unlocking education
The textbooks of the future will be digital, personalised and available to all, says Jose Ferreira.
Education is the ultimate gateway problem. Whether the goal is to address dinner city poverty or threats to the environment, improvements in both the adaptability and delivery of education will help to solve them, argues Jose Ferreira in the video above.
Unlocking Education describes the next revolution in education: adaptive learning. Online schooling can lower the cost of textbooks and solve the access problem in the developing world. As a supplement to conventional schooling, it allows for a level of personalisation that makes education more engaging and efficient.
Jose Ferreira is the Founder and CEO of Knewton, an educational technology company.
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