Council Post: The AI Learning Revolution And The End Of One-Size-Fits-All Learning

Markus Bernhardt is the Chief Evangelist at Obrizum, pioneering deeptech AI digital learning solutions for corporate learning. Google Director of Research Peter Norvig famously stated in his keynote speech for the Association for Learning Technology Conference in 2007 that if you only had to read one research paper to learn about learning, it would be Benjamin Bloom's The 2 Sigma Problem: The Search for Methods of Group Instruction as Effective as One-to-One Tutoring. To aid his preparation for the keynote, this brilliant piece of advice had been given to Peter by his friend Hal Abelson, an educator and professor at MIT. In Bloom's well-known and often-cited paper, the outcome of an experiment is reported comparing the efficacy of three types of teaching: the conventional lecture, the conventional lecture with regular testing and feedback, and one-to-one tuition. Using the "straight lecture" as the mean, Bloom found an 84% increase in mastery above the mean for a "formative feedback" approach to teaching and an astonishing 98% increase in mastery for one-to-one tuition.