Building AI-Native Learning for the Future of Work with Vinitra Swamy of Scholé AI

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In the way that Siri exists on your computer, I think there's gonna be a personal assistant that probably wins. We don't know who it is, but eventually there will be. And I think that this plugs into some kind of like agent-to-agent marketplace where like, hey, all of the tools that you use all have agents or all have MCPs that interact with these personal assistants. And I think learning has a large role to play here because let's say Schole is the ecosystem that is tying a lot of these tools together. Like, hey, remember that lesson that you had to do three weeks ago? The thing that you're working on right now would be a great chance to use this. Do you want like the two-minute refresher of what we were showing you before, what you actually did, and how you could use it here? Let's guide you through the task. And then we're able to understand which parts of the learning actually made it into practice, and that has a closed loop of insights.

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Schole is a UC Berkeley and EPFL spinoff, which is building AI native learning for the future of work. Veneetra herself is a former Microsoft AI engineer, an AI for education PhD. There are not that many of those out there. And she's on the teaching faculty of Harvard's new agentic AI intensives. Awesome. Veneetra Swami-

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... welcome to EdTech Insiders.

Thank you so much, Alex. It's such a pleasure to be here, and it's so nice to chat with you again.

You too. I'm so pumped to really go into the details of what you're doing. So first off, you have this unique background. It's really unusual. It's really dedicated to AI and education.

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