Pearson’s Efficacy document has a chapter called ‘A New Era of Learning Efficacy on a Planet of Smarter Systems’ by Jon Iwata. It’s basically a paean of praise to the potential of big data. I threw the text into a word cloud program to see what would come up. And what we get is a handy little guide for anyone who wants to bluff their way in a discussion about adaptive learning. Alternatively, you could use it for buzz word bingo.
Some of the words you won’t be needing at all are ‘teach’, ‘teachers’, ‘classrooms’ or ‘lessons’. Sorry about the blur in the image: it’s my laptop having an emotional response.
Adaptive Learning in ELT 
Oh, but the word’ human’ has made it in there!
Indeed it has, Kati. As you know, we can know a word by the company it keeps. Here are the contexts: ‘a billion transistors for every human being on the planet’ and ‘5,200 gigabytes of data for every human on the planet by 2020’