The Guru Problem: Productive Void Architecture and Its Collapse in Education and EdTech

Key Points

• This research aims to differentiate between productive and exploitative voids in educational settings.
• Applied the Void Framework to analyze various education and EdTech platforms.
• Distinguished productive voids, such as the Socratic method, from exploitative voids, like guru-model courses.
• Developed a void scoring system for educational architectures.
• Identified key characteristics that define productive and exploitative voids.
• Demonstrated implications for AI regulation in educational contexts, particularly in high-risk classifications.