THE TECHNOLOGY INTERVIEW
“ We’ re all subject to the next hot tool and want to apply it”
Dave Treat Chief Technology Officer Pearson
Learning in the flow will define the future Asked to describe a university student or corporate learner in 2030, Dave returns to a common theme: meeting people within their existing routines rather than pulling them away.
“ What actually works is meeting people where they are and injecting microlearning experiences into their daily lives, because we now have visibility into their specific context,” adds Dave.
“ The future of learning is in the flow – in the flow of life, the flow of work and the flow of education.”
That thinking extends to assessment, too. Dave suggests the oral exam, long recognised as a strong indicator of understanding, may finally become practical at scale through AI-guided interaction grounded in a professor’ s own material.
“ We’ ve known for a very long time that oral exams provide a high-quality signal of a student’ s understanding of a particular topic,” Dave goes on.
34 August 2026