Tech & Learning — February 2018

8 | FEBRUARY 2018 | WWW.TECHLEARNING.COM

TRENDING

TUTORING

It’s estimated that education tutoring could be wiped out

by AI in the next five years. Intelligent tutoring systems

(ITS) will simulate one-to-one human tutoring.

ASSESSMENT AI will help build more efficient, personalized, contextualized support for students.

RECOMMENDATIONS

Smart recommendation systems or machine-assisted

systems will show student mastery, repeat necessary

lessons, and suggest personalized learning plans.

HIRING AND

DEVELOPMENT

Upskilling and continuous development will be required

for teachers and administrators to keep pace. We’ll also

see new models of boot camps and EDX-like offerings

from universities to serve as gap-fillers for skills.

SCHEDULING Algorithms will make it easier to maximize learning environments and schedules.

TRANSPORTATION

Some believe that by 2025, ride-sharing fleets and

autonomous vehicles will be transporting students to

schools.

SIGNIFICANT 2017 E-RATE STATS

Findings from a survey of more than 1,096 E-Rate applicants by Funds for Learning:

 23,000 schools and libraries submitted requests for $4.

billion in E-Rate services.

 More than 50% of applicants wanted to expand bandwidth

with requests of $2.5 billion in E-Rate data and Internet

services.

 55% of applicants want voice services to remain E-Rate

eligible.

 The average school now spends $32,576 on wifi equipment

and services.

 48% said E-Rate’s “self-provisioning” (or building their

own networks) option lowers bandwidth costs.

 44% of respondents still don’t like the E-Rate process.

SOURCE: FUNDS FOR LEARNING

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