Passive learning. Podcasts. People want to learn things. But people don't want to devote time to learning. Passive media that reclaims dead time is the solution.<p>Listening to a podcast during your commute is clearly different from watching a lecture, taking notes, and solving problems. Not every concept is conducive to passive learning. That's no problem. Let the podcasts cover concepts that tie into further active study.
1) National infrastructure for self-directed learning. It will be something more than traditional homeschooling, but something less than classroom driven private or public schools.<p>2) Personalizing content delivery to 1 on 1. (Having multiple videos per content area and figuring which works best for each learner - or perhaps videos that can be spliced together in real time based on the learner)<p>Their secret sauce is the data on student understanding available to teachers, not the videos themselves.
Homeschooling/independent education workflow. Let me pay you so I can setup my child with the curriculum they need from Grade 1-12, track their progress, etc.
Diversification and Appeal to learners across age groups [Education for adults].<p>IMO, building new courses in disciplines for which learning materials might not be readily available, but are important nevertheless, without diluting the standards they maintain.<p>Example : Basic carpentry ?
Developing their own curriculum from scratch that is not tied to common-core, NCERT(India) or other government-created ones which focus mostly on memorization and getting children through the assembly line.<p>I'd love to see more interactive exercises focusing on problem solving, creating projects, collaborating with other students instead of answering a bunch of quizzes after listening to 30 minutes of video.