Adapting technology for learner-driven education
As technology moves more and more to the centre of cultural practices, teachers must make room to enable learner-driven processes to move more and more to the centre of teaching and learning practices. The teacher who resists technology and remains inflexible in the face of cultural change courts irrelevance.Here's a summary of an interesting article on adaptive learning published in Inside Higher Ed, followed by a link to the source:
Summary of article by Academica Top 10, 16 June 2014
Adaptive learning increasing in popularity
Adaptive learning—loosely defined as the use of software to create individualized learning experiences for students—is growing in popularity, especially among for-profit institutions in the US. For-profit education chains, with their extensive budgets and streamlined governance structure, are ideally positioned to take advantage of adaptive learning technologies, which typically minimize the role of the professor in providing instruction. Firms like the Apollo Education Group, who owns University of Phoenix, are now experimenting with a variety of approaches to adaptive learning. Apollo is testing adaptive math software as well as an application that will help tutor students in writing and grammar. Meanwhile, the American Public University System, a for-profit chain, has begun incorporating adaptive technology into the instructional design of its courses. Its business school curriculum includes “semantic mapping” technology that searches for gaps between content and learning goals at the course and program level. More platforms are emerging, as well, with over 70 companies now offering adaptive solutions. Inside Higher Ed
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/06/13/profits-lead-way-adaptive-learning-becomes-more-popular#sthash.pjOHeEz6.zKp9i8qh.dpbs
