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The study examines the effectiveness of adaptive learning technology as a supplemental component in online precalculus courses using data from vendor software and a public university system in the southeastern United States. Outcomes examined include final exam score and course completion with a passing grade. The results highlight that not all students utilize the technology […]
In this session, Dr. Rick Shearer shares insight into Transactional Distance Theory as originally proposed by Prof. Micheal Moore. Listen to the Podcast Let’s Talk eLearning is a podcast series that shares success tips on elearning and distance education. The podcast was created as a way to assist pratitioners to understand some key issues, challenges […]
Artificial intelligence (AI) is accelerating the integration of information technology into education, providing support or even alternative approaches for practioners in the industry. AI-based education in the future will be driven by the use of data, intensive technology application, integrated innovation, and service optimization. Deloitte
Higher education institutions are increasingly interested in using adaptive learning as an innovative data-driven approach to teaching. The actual use of adaptive learning in courses remains, however, low. This is despite positive attitudes of institutional leaders towards its adoption and promising results of early studies on its effectiveness. This study examines the challenges that prevent […]
Adaptive Educational Hypermedia Systems (AEHS) play a crucial role in supporting adaptive learning and immensely outperform learner-control based systems. AEHS’ page indexing and hyperspace rely mostly on navigation supports which provide the learners with a user-friendly interactive learning environment. Such AEHS features provide the systems with a unique ability to adapt learners’ preferences. However, obtaining […]
Personalised learning and data-driven innovation hold the key to transforming our higher education sector, says Jisc CEO Paul Feldman Education Technology
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Remedial college courses generate tuition and fit neatly into existing course structures. But they often fail to deliver access and success in foundational “gateway” undergraduate courses. Because under-represented minorities are over-represented in these courses, remedial courses obstruct equitable access and success. Schools are increasingly turning instead to supplemental instruction and Internet-based intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs). […]
In this paper, we review the literature on philanthropy in education to provide a larger context for the role that technology company foundations, such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and ChanZuckerberg LLC, are playing with respect to the development and implementation of personalized learning. We then analyze the ways that education magazines and […]
Arizona State University’s College Algebra classes have looked a little different these past few years. If you entered a classroom in the fall of 2015, you’d likely find 100 to 140 students listening to the professor lecture. Today, walking into an algebra classroom, you’d see those same 100 students all on their computers, with a […]
