Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Raj Valli, CEO of Thinkster (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Give me a use case of what AI produces and what your human teachers do on top of it? Raj Valli: I can take an example here. I’m going to take a much easier case for this conversation seminar. Let’s say that someone comes in and takes their first diagnostic assessment. You don’t

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Quizlet CEO Matthew Glotzbach (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Talk to me a little bit about the go-to market strategy. It’s all user-generated content. You have a great coverage of high school, college students, and post-academic learning. What is the go-to market strategy? How do people find you? Is it all word-of-mouth? Matthew Glotzbach: We’ve been fortunate that all of our user

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Quizlet CEO Matthew Glotzbach (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Where is the scalable capacity to train large numbers of retail workers to become healthcare workers? That speaks to the kind of things that you’re talking about. If there were such a transition path with proper credentialing, that would be extremely valuable under the current circumstances.  Matthew Glotzbach: Absolutely. We see that trend

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Quizlet CEO Matthew Glotzbach (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: If you were to rank subjects which are the biggest draws, what would those be? Matthew Glotzbach: Over half of the college students in the US use Quizlet on a regular basis. Over two-thirds of the high school students in the US use us. We see a wide distribution of different types of

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Quizlet CEO Matthew Glotzbach (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What’s happening on the technology end? How are these questions generated? How is the progression being determined? Matthew Glotzbach: Most of the interactions are with texts and images. We do a lot of natural language processing and understanding of the text. I’ll take a multiple choice question as a simple example.

Thought Leaders in Online Education: Quizlet CEO Matthew Glotzbach (Part 1)

Quizlet is a user-generated and AI-augmented study guide platform that has scaled exponentially. Read on to understand more about this newly-minted Unicorn. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Quizlet.

Thought Leaders in Online Education: Stephen Spahn, Dwight Schools Group (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Where do you see white spaces? I’ll give you an example. One of the things we’re learning in this COVID world is that at the elementary school level, distance learning is performing poorly. Clearly that is something that needs work. It needs to be thought through. The other thing that I’m observing is

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Stephen Spahn, Dwight Schools Group (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What is the level of adoption and penetration into this particular marketplace? How big is the market? How many kinds in that age group are there in America? What percentage of that have you been able to crack? Stephen Spahn: What you really have is quite a large market which would include students

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