Algorithms, Machine Learning, and Accessible Higher Education
Image from omgnational.com/blog/google-the-algorithm-signals In considering all the potential advantages and pitfalls facing us when exploring algorithmic technologies, nothing is more intriguing to me than the idea that it might unlock a more customized, accessible, and equitable educational system for the public, particularly when it comes to preschool and higher education. As it stands, preschool and higher education are increasingly necessary to succeed academically, as children who participate in formal preschool are ahead of their peers in early grade school and young adults with a college degree have greater earning potential than those without. But both of these educational areas are typically accessible only to those with the financial means to pay for them. In the case of higher education, this usually means asking our nation's youth to finance their educations through loans they will end up carrying throughout a substantial portion of their adult liv...
