The part of the article that alarmed me the most was that the state of Arizona has reduced state funding for the university by 50% over the past 5 years....<p>Wow. The baby boomers really are gutting the system that gave they benefited from.
In some ways I like it as I've always learned better on a self-paced system. But no computer will ever inspire anyone to reach outside themselves and become someone new. The best teachers are the ones who move their students in directions they never even considered. There is no big data algorithm for that.
"Sufficiently advanced testing is indistinguishable from instruction. In a fully adaptive classroom, students will be continually assessed, with every keystroke and mouse click feeding a learner profile. High-stakes exams could eventually disappear, replaced by the calculus of perpetual monitoring."<p>I see this, combined with more adaptive selection of learning goals, natural learner exploration, and a little bit of 'gamification' as the true future of education.
I didn't know folks had taken the khan academy model, given it the fancy name of 'Adaptive Learning' and raking in the dough with proprietary software.