Revolutionising online learning for society

1. Rethinking Education
Reaktor
Megan Schaible
megan.schaible@reaktor.com
@technicallymeg
Revolutionising online learning for society

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250% growth in higher ed students by 2035
$350bn industry by 2025
700+ universities needed EACH YEAR
Online Education
is the Future
The MOOC Hockey Stick
Massification of Higher Education Revisited
RMIT University

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The MOOC Hockey Stick

4. MOOCs for Modern Life

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9% Learn on way to Work
37% on evenings and weekends
50% believe sessions between
20-50 min most effective
*2018 Voice of the Learner Survey Digital Learning Consortium
Modern Lifestyle meets
Technology and Design
Rethink Education

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We don't compete
with online courses, we
compete with Netflix
and Facebook.

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Rethink Education

8. To broaden perspectives, you first have
to know them.

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AI is like electricity: it will impact all
of our lives in ways we are just now
discovering. It should not be left in
the hands of a few elite coders.

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Why do they care?
Do they want to be like someone they
know who has a job requiring these skills?
Do they want to earn more money? Do
they want to be able to work remotely? Do
they want to seem aware and up-to-date
at their next meeting/dinner party/job
interview?
Understand WHY people learn.
What are their feelings on the subject
you are about to teach?
Is it boring? Is it too confusing or elitist or
overwhelming to know where to start? Is
the current way of discussing the topic
gender biased? Is there a fear about the
effect your subject might have on the
student's future, on society?
Rethink Education

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We are on a mission to create
a worldwide movement that
helps people be empowered,
not threatened by AI.
Rethink Education

14. Creating a phenomenon

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SAULI NIINISTÖ
All the graduates
will receive a
certificate for
completing the
course
Motivational Marketing

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Helsinki Graduation
Ceremony for first
wave
Motivational Marketing

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Elements of AI ranked as the
#1 Computer Science online course
in the world, ahead of Stanford,
Harvard, and MIT.
- Class Central May 2020

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425kregistered students since
launch in May 2018
40%
Women
80%
Increase in UH
female CS
applicants
25%
over 45
years old
500+
Companies
joined the AI
Challenge so far
Elements in Numbers
160countries

19. Societal Scale Education:
Creating Grassroots Movements

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21. Our Success
is Finland's
Success…
It can be
yours too!

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Launching in new countries,
Starting With Sweden

23. "Elements of AI...is something the Finns are really good at:
carefully designing long-running, society-wide
experiments with broad grassroots participation that test
ideas for making society run better."

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«I am very impressed on the focus on AI
in Finland and the training 1% of Finland's
population in AI - I wish it's a template
which other countries can use.»
Sundar Pichai, CEO Google

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«Finland for instance has shown the path … training ... the
population to get basic knowledge on how AI works and
can be used. Appropriation by the greatest number is a key
priority. I suggest that the EU-commission set up the same
goal whole european population.»
Emmanuel Macron, President of France

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8 M
5 M
13 M
10 M
40 M
Our target is to
teach 1% of the
world’s population
the basics of AI by
2022.
Rethink Education

28. Reaktor Education: What's Next?

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30. StartingUp Launched at Slush 2019
https://starting-up.org/

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1Building AI
● Understand algorithms
with real-world context and
problem solving
● Build and train machine
learning models live,
without leaving the course
environment
● Offered in 3 skill levels: from
Beginner for students who
do not code to Advanced
for students who know
python
Coming soon...
2 3

32. Coming soon...

33. European Digital Academy
Coming soon...

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Reaktor Education partners with world-class organisations
and education providers to develop online courses and
digital learning solutions designed to empower all people to
participate in a rapidly-evolving globalised economy.

35. Thank you!
Reaktor
Megan Schaible
megan.schaible@reaktor.com
@technicallymeg