Sohaib Ahmed is the Co-Founder and COO of 99point9, a standardized test prep company. He is also an entrepreneur, strategist, researcher and will be using the TEDxUTSC platform to speak about the importance of interaction in education through a cohesive, rewarding interface for students. Through this interface you'll never have passive learning. He believes to make online learning truly effective, we should be creating interactive interfaces that build accountability-based relationships through: organic reminding and withdrawal if they aren’t given attention, that plan the user’s long-term personal and professional development, that adapt to the user’s learning needs and speed, that foster instant consolidation by actually talking to users and moving them forward only once a concept has been mastered, and that emphasize game-ification, incentivization, healthy competition, motivation, informalization, and personalization. To make online learning truly effective, we should be creating interactive interfaces that build accountability-based relationships through organic reminding and withdrawal if they aren’t given attention, that plan the user’s long-term personal and professional development, that adapt to the user’s learning needs and speed, that foster instant consolidation by actually talking to users and moving them forward only once a concept has been mastered, and that emphasize game-ification, incentivization, healthy competition, motivation, informalization, and personalization. In other words, we should be making truly dialogical interfaces, not just videos you pause mid-way, never to play again: these are possible to make using today’s technology, and the philosophy of dialogical learning can – and should – also be applied to enhance existing, in-person classes, as well as the internal dialogue we all have! This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at [ Ссылка ]
