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Career Education Corp. has begun one of higher education’s broadest experiments with adaptive learning. Institutions in the for-profit chain have powered more than 300 online course sections with the emerging technology, and enrollments in those courses have topped 11,000 students. Inside Higher Ed Full Article
Imagine taking a college exam, and, instead of handing in a blue book and getting a grade from a professor a few weeks later, clicking the “send” button when you are done and receiving a grade back instantly, your essay scored by a software program. The New York Times Full Article
n a study spanning six public universities, students taught statistics mainly through software learned as much as peers taught primarily by humans. And the robots got the job done quicker. Inside Higher Ed Full Article
At Rio Salado College, where all 41,000-plus students attend classes online, instructional priorities include a strong emphasis on personalization–helping nontraditional students reach their educational goals through programs and services tailored to individual needs. SOURCE: Campus TechnologyRead the Full Article
Predictive analytics can help schools quickly identify at-risk students—so they can intervene before it’s too lateSOURCE: eSchool News Read the Full Article
MyLabs and Mastering, tutoring software packages from Pearson Education that are used in hundreds of college courses, are getting a new engine to improve their abilities to make learning personal.SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher EducationRead the Full Article
Abstract Most e-Learning systems provide web-based learning so that students can access the same online courses via the Internet without adaptation, based on each student’s profile and behavior. In an e-Learning system, one size does not fit all. Therefore, it is a challenge to make e-Learning systems that are suitably “adaptive”. The aim of adaptive […]
