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Driverless Ed-Tech: The History of the Future of Automation in Education Audrey Watters The University of Edinburgh — March 2017

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massively open online futures

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this is not a self-driving car

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learning as an engineering problem

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MOOCs and learners’ “driving” data

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Engineered, not autonomous

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What if I told you the technology actually sucks?

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People who drive luxury cars replace workers with robots

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Computers are cheaper for whom?

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Precarious labor and “the sharing economy”

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Robots “make great university professors” — R.U.R. (1920)

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“Uber for Education”

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“I hope you don’t have friends who recommend Ayn Rand to you” — Flannery O’Connor (1960)

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Individualism and (American) car culture

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The car as “personalization”

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Other directions for this talk…

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The driverless school

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“Roaming autodidacts” — Tressie McMillan Cottom

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“The Wal-Mart of higher education”

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A century of teaching machines

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Driverlessness — more algorithms, fewer roads, less freedom