“ If you take the layer seven example for instance : you could have all the network security in place that you want and an application that gets deployed , but it ' s chock-full of holes . Unless you have something looking at layer seven data natively – at a granular level – your network security controls are totally useless . From an infrastructure perspective , then , 2U is actually in a really good state because we have a lot of infrastructure as code deployment builds and so have many security guardrails built into those CI / CD ( continuous integration / continuous delivery ) pipelines . It helps us to automate the entire process of securing the deployment of infrastructure .”
The Future of Education Andreu predicts that we ' re going to see a lot of intelligence built into the ecosystems of the EdTech industry . “ For instance , in the same way that there ' s adaptive testing , like where you might get two or three questions , and then the difficulty increases accordingly – there ' s going to be , I predict , an ‘ adaptive learning ’. Imagine 40 students in a coding class , all 40 are going to have varying levels of background and experience – so half the class is going to be bored half the time , while the other class is going to be challenged . That ’ s the traditional model of education .
“ But imagine an adaptive environment where a baseline gets set when the class begins . Then the difficulty of the challenges that get presented to students are dynamically adapted based on their performance , on their level of knowledge and ability . I think that ' s really powerful , and it ’ s going to be something that slowly remoulds the entire educational environment through technology and AI in the EdTech space .”
2U ' s mantra is ‘ no back row ’, because , typically , the back row in a classroom misses out . “ They ' re the ones that are not focused and are not getting the same level of attention from the professor ,” says Andreu . “ Our objective is to remove that back row and to make this accessible to anybody who ' s willing to take on the challenge of these classes .”
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