Large organizations such as education, healthcare, and workforce development have experienced many needs to fulfill during the pandemic. Organizations are also potential customers with the need to solve problems related to trends in technology after the kids go back to school, patients go back to visiting health care providers, and online conferences for professional development or workforce training return face to face.
PSA has talked with many academics over the last ten years about the trends and needs in online learning. Research from Julia Parra at NMSU focuses on the trends in technology impacting education and learning design such as free open source resources, internet apps, cloud computing for storing and retrieval of information. Inge de Waard in Europe focuses on research trends emerging since 2008 in the use of MOOC design to reach higher education and private enterprises. David Rosen offers research on “blended learning” for adult learners, literacy educators, and schools using technology tools now for mobile learning, competency based education allowing opportunities for mastering content to reach goals.
In the following newsletter, Steve Blank an entrepreneur, explains how startups can help solve specific problems for customers using his lean methodology. While we wait for AI to become available in the future, the newsletter describes the path to finding the minimum viable product (MVP) to get the job done now for customers, for example: what teachers need for live classes on Zoom.
Steve BlankA Path to the Minimum Viable Product