With a focus on adult learners, the AI Institute for Adult Learning and Online Education, or ALOE, will look to improve online education for the more than 100 million American workers who will need to “reskill” over the next 10 years. It will also learn from the massive amounts of data generated by online students that isn’t accessible in traditional in-person classes. “COVID-19 has changed our world,” says Ashok Goel, a Georgia Tech computer science professor who will serve as the institute’s executive director. “Though K-12 will become mostly in-person again because kids need teachers, adult education will remain online to a large degree. It will become a hybrid, a mixture. There’s a much larger need today than even one year back, and the need is going to grow.”
