Online education has evolved through three waves: MOOCs like Coursera that just filmed lectures, platforms like DataCamp that added interactive exercises, and now AI-driven systems that personalize learning to each student's pace. Yusuf and Optima are building this third wave.
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It's the biggest S curve in the history of technology education. If you go a step back, I think the first wave in online education was the massive open online courses like think of Coursera, edX, Udemy. They bought a conventional classroom online. You're just passively watching videos. And then datacamp came about, and as a counter reaction, we said, hey, learning has to be active, people learn by doing and has to be engaging. But now, today, I think we're at that third S curve where you can leverage Genai to build a much more personalized experience that adapts to the learner in various ways, it adapts to their pace, and so on. What Yusuf and Optima team have built was kind of the best incarnation I've ever seen of that. The early phases of that vision, kind of materializing.