Post on 07-Jan-2017
Change the WorldOne Trillion Dollar Market at a Time
Volker Hirsch @vhirsch
4YFN Barcelona, 23 Feb 2016
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Who + Why…
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Angel Investor…
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… With Small Wings
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Leverage
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Impact
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EducationMilitary Health
Military =
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Health =
Megabucks
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Education =
Future
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Better Education = Higher GDP
http://ent.arp.harvard.edu/AfricaHigherEducation/The full Harvard study is here: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTAFRREGTOPEDUCATION/Resources/444659-1212165766431/ED_Higher_education_economic_development_Africa.pdf
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Global GDP = $76 Trillion
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Reasons t o i n v e s t in education
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Massive growth
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Example: Africa
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Africa
Africa GDP: $2.45 trillion (2015)
Education can lift GDP by 20%(*) result: $500 billion incremental GDP!
… And that’s per year!
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(*) A Harvard study concluded a rise in tertiary education in Africa would result in 21.3% incremental economic output. (http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTAFRREGTOPEDUCATION/Resources/444659-1212165766431/ED_Higher_education_economic_development_Africa.pdf, p. 29)
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It’s a proven market
The Largest Publishers Are in Education
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EdTech has its own Hype Cycle
Innovation Trigger
Peak ofInflated
ExpectationsTrough of
Disillusionment Slope of Enlightenment Plateau of Productivity
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Mashware
Quantum Computing
Education TabletOpen Microcredentials
Campus App StoreAffective Computing
SIS International DataInteroperability Standards
BPOOpen-Source SIS
Student Retention CRMCitizen Developers
Learning Stack
Adaptive E-TextbooksBig DataGamification
MOOC Social Software StandardsWireless aaSCOBITAdaptive LearningDigital Preservation of Research DataBYOD Strategy
Mobile-Learning Low-Range/Midrange HandsetsOpen-Source Financials
EA FrameworksWeb-Based
Office ProductivitySuites
ITILSocial Learning Platform for Education
Cloud HPC/CaaSMobile-Learning
SmartphonesOpen-Source Middleware
SuitesE-Textbook
Cloud Email for Staff and Faculty Virtual Environments/Virtual WorldsEmergency/Mass Notification ServicesHosted Virtual DesktopsOpen-Source Learning Repositories
SaaS Administration ApplicationsEnterprise ArchitectureIT Infrastructure Utility
Intellectual Property Rights and Royalties Management Software
Lecture Capture and Retrieval Tools802.11nUnified Communications and
Collaboration
Tablets
Game Consoles asMedia Hubs
E-Book ReadersSelf-Publishing
Mashups
Off the Hype Cycle: e-portfolio, User-centric IAM, Organization-centric IAM, SOA, Student Enrollment CRM, Open-Source Portals, Social Media in Education
From, "Hype Cycle for Education, 2013," 25 July 2013 (G00251104)
Years to mainstream adoption:
More than 10 yearsObsolete before plateau
Less than 2 years
5 to 10 years2 to 5 years
As of July 2013
The Big Boys are Here…
There are Unicorns!
Qtone (>$4bn)
Growing a horn:
What bubble? What Series A Crunch?
You can win a Nobel Peace Prize Before getting a Drivers Licence
Malala Yousafzai
How to unlock value in education?
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The Value of Education
Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of minds to think
Albert Einstein (abbreviated)
“It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books.
The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.”
Quote taken from: Philipp Frank "Einstein: His Life and Times" Albert Einstein
The Value of Education
“It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books.
The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.”
Quote taken from: Philipp Frank "Einstein: His Life and Times" Albert Einstein
The Value of Education
Access & Discovery
Distance learningMobile, Online, video, ...
Creativity
Critical Thinking
Learning outcomes
MethodologyAdaptive
Learning
Access? Mobile? Well, doh!
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Access
Teaches languages to people around the world.
Aggregates vocational training resources, matches them with skill requirements and adds a certification layer.
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Discovery
Knowledge graph around learning content, sourcing contextually relevant content.
Personalised learning platform that adapts to learner’s progress.
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Creativity
3D-printable laptops that will teach you to design, apply and discover.
Find courses to enhance your life.
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Thinking
Platform making the ideas of the world’s greatest thinkers accessible and comprehensible and developing high-order thinking skills.Schools and education systems that complement curricula with focus on multi-cultural outlook and inclusion of women.
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Why isn’t everyone doing it?
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Fear...
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Heavily regulated sector
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Slow pace of education systems
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Complex systems
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Impenetrable
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Strategy: Wrap around
Private Tutoring
Curriculum Enhancement
Lesson Preparation
Revision
Lifelong Learning
Skills Training
Languages
Computer Science
Adaptive Learning
They know they must improve
Let’s not forget: teachers are heroes!
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Tough environment
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Schools: Budget cuts, resource deprived
Teachers: frontline job, low pay, increased responsibilities
Parents: more double-earners & single-parent families, time-constrained
Systems: regulated, move slower than private sector
^KEEP CALM
andHUG MEHARD
Education systems to you:
Device availability & bandwidth
Big data (real-time feedback loops)
Analytics
AI & Machine Learning
Neuroscience & pedagogy (adaptive learning)
Beat the system with technology
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the market is there the Tech is ready the time is now!
True Entrepreneurs…
Get. Shit. Done!
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Thank you!
@vhirschme@vhirsch.com
+44 7843 599 678
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