Entries by Allison Wiley

The Future of Learning Looks Like Workforce Infrastructure

For years, “ed tech” was an umbrella term grouping schools, online platforms, courses, credentials, and software under one idea: technology applied to education. That shorthand made it easier for investors, policymakers, and institutions to talk about innovation without rethinking how learning fits into the economy. Today, it no longer explains what’s happening.

Rewriting Education’s Design Principles

As digital tools become more powerful and AI unlocks new possibilities for teaching and learning, the urge to move quickly toward tech-driven solutions is growing. In this article, Maria Anguiano, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at College Futures Foundation, examines the promise of innovations such as AI-enabled tutoring, automated advising, and personalized content at scale…

Achieving an adaptive learner

In this award-winning essay, Stanford’s Daniel L. Schwartz challenges traditional models of education that prioritize routine task mastery over adaptability and lifelong learning.

Firm training, automation, and wages: International worker-level evidence

Firm training is often touted as a key safeguard against automation, but robust micro-level evidence remains limited. In this paper, Oliver Falck, Yuchen Guo, Christina Langer, Valentin Lindlacher, and Simon Wiederhold use harmonized data on more than 90,000 workers across 37 industrialized countries to show that firm-provided training significantly reduces individual automation risk and explains a meaningful share of its wage returns.

The Logistics of Lifelong Learning: In Dialogue with Elliot Gillerman

Elliot Gillerman is Senior Vice President for Strategy & Insights at CredLens, a national non-profit data trust working to make sense of the growing non-degree credential ecosystem. In his role, Elliot is responsible for crafting CredLens’ product strategy as well as overseeing the organization’s data and research partnerships. Drawing on experience from Chegg, Penn Foster, and Boston Consulting Group, Elliot is focused on expanding access to economic opportunity by bridging the gap between education and employment.