A Principal's Reflections

JULY 18, 2021

As I transitioned from the principalship to supporting districts and schools, I learned that blended learning was a powerful pedagogical strategy that could unleash students' potential while meeting their diverse needs. Keep in mind that there are many ways to set up this model.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

Smart Sparrow , which provides course-authoring tools for faculty and instructional designers to build adaptive courseware, has found a new home in a much bigger nest. On its website , the company claims it has more than 700 institutional customers across the K-12, higher education and corporate learning space.

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Linways Technologies

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

4 features of Linways LMS that make it perfect for nurturing adaptive learning. Adaptive learning or adaptive teaching is essentially a teaching mechanism. This way, the teacher can learn about student’s learning efficiency, their unique needs, and offer customized course delivery for the best experience.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 7, 2019

Without further ado, here are the general directions in which the industry of educational technologies is growing: Adaptive learning and learner-centric education. Phill: The first question is about adaptive personalized learning. As far as adaptive learning goes, it is an approach to provide personalized learning.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2016

But optimizing a flawed model of education is not in the best interests of our students, and from a learning outcomes perspective may make things worse than they already are. In the case of adaptive learning, education commentator Audrey Watters gave examples of how things can go badly wrong on her blog. Tune too easy?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 18, 2020

The number of students who are forced to take math that they never will need or the number of students who, given the choice in high school, might not take the math courses they will need later? Which is bigger? Which is bigger?

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ViewSonic Education

OCTOBER 1, 2024

introduces exciting new ways to deliver personalized learning experiences. These include adaptive learning platforms that tailor lessons to individual needs, intelligent tutoring systems that provide instant feedback, and so much more—all powered by sophisticated machine learning algorithms. Is AI Really an Issue?

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 6, 2021

Another possibility is allowing kids choice when it comes to demonstrating learning or selecting the right tool for completing a task. These stations can consist of targeted instruction, independent work, collaborative tasks, and adaptive learning tools. There is frequent re-grouping based on student progress over the year.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Path They are many ways to allow students to determine their own path during remote or hybrid learning. Path could come in the form of customized curriculum, asynchronous virtual courses, selecting the order in a playlist , or independent study.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 18, 2020

Teachers can include a variety of learning materials in their online lessons and make learning more interactive with the various collaboration tools of the LMS. Also, they can make use of gamification features throughout lessons or an entire course. Read more: What every adaptive learning system should have.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 21, 2019

If people didn’t overcome their fear of interacting with an intelligent machine to get some money out of the bank we would still stand in line for who knows how long (during public hours, of course) to be handed some cash from our own bank accounts. Adaptive learning. This takes personalized learning on a deeper level.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 4, 2018

They may come with great learning results, but they may also come with no guarantees for success. Adaptive learning. Learning programs must adapt to and evolve based on learners’ needs. Video is a powerful way to catch learners’ attention, as it involves more senses into the learning process. Micro-learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

So to keep class schedules as flexible as possible, and to offer more sections without putting up new buildings, UCF leaders have turned to offering more online courses for students on campus. It has always seemed strange to me that students living on campus would choose to take courses online. Can you talk about that? Whittaker: Yeah.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

In recent years, the nonprofit has invested in several education technology efforts around learning analytics and adaptive learning. million investment in Smart Sparrow , a company that offers a platform used by many higher-ed faculty members and instructors to develop online, adaptive courses and simulations.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2017

Op-ed from Dror Ben-Naim: “ What Makes a Smart Course ‘Smart’ ” ? More than 20,000 online courses have been created by over 8,000 educators, the company claims. Letting Humans Drive Adaptivity. All they see, as described eloquently by David Wiley, Lumen Learning’s co-founder and Chief Academic Officer, is a “Next” button.)

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 4, 2024

Having all students on technology at the same time using an adaptive learning tool where there is no discourse, collaboration, or relationship building is impersonal at best. Let me be clear: there is no right or best way to personalize learning. Apparently, this was not the case. Take your pick and mix it up as it suits you.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Students deserve leaders willing who are willing to extend themselves beyond their comfort zones in order to create a culture that aligns with a new vision for learning. Of course it helps, but it is not a necessity. A common misconception is that you have to be "tech savvy" in order to be a digital leader.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 20, 2022

Here are some highlights of last year’s virtual event: Of course, we’re telling you this because…. Of course, we’re also ready to take a deep dive into more advanced features such as competency-based learning, adaptive learning, automation and gamification, among others! Meet NEO at FETC 2022!

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 23, 2022

Instead of a one-size-fits-all curriculum, a personalized learning environment emphasizes: Each student’s skills and interests . Students’ individual learning goals. Flexible teaching strategies and adaptive learning. Personalized learning puts students at the center of the educational experience.

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Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2016

Now benefits like those cost reductions and higher student success rates are prompting the school to roll out more Z-degrees programs and extend its partnership with Lumen Learning by piloting next-generation adaptive OER courseware. But Tidewater doesn’t have plans for total conversion to OER, despite the benefits.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

Sharing data, best practices, learning maps, and survey results has moved the needle on adaptive learning forward at our schools. Below, we focus on the joint work of CTU and UMUC, which, along the way, have discovered a common passion for using digital tools to promote student learning. Uniting Around Adaptive Learning.

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EdTech4Beginners

MAY 22, 2019

Moreover, it tells them what needs to be improved in their courses, thus eliminating the gaps in their lectures and materials and enhancing students’ understanding of the course. Students, on the other hand, benefit a lot from AI online tools because they make learning much easier and interesting.

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Edsurge

JULY 21, 2016

Conner tells EdSurge how the use of adaptive-learning tools offers extraordinarily promising results for more personalized learning and teaching experiences. She adds, however, that “student success in the courses with adaptive-learning systems was not different than in a traditional online course at UMUC.”

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Neo LMS

MARCH 4, 2021

Students feel they are at the center of the learning experience. From the position of the protagonist, they can affect the course of events during their self-development journey. Read more: Using adaptive learning to personalize learning experiences. Foster student agency with these online tools.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Even more, even if they created Jill specifically for the AI course, now it can answer questions related to other courses at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Most importantly, teachers spend a lot of time each week on administrative tasks, whether they’re teaching face to face, online, or blended courses. Goel, Ph.D.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 14, 2021

When edtech comes into play, specifically through a comprehensive solution that allows teachers to create courses online , assess students, track their progress, and communicate with them through the same platform, things start to get interesting. First of all, asynchronous online lessons let students decide when they want to learn.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptive learning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design. Delivering these models to a differentiated population of educators and learners requires an adaptive approach.

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Linways Technologies

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Implementing adaptive learning technology in your institution. Adaptive learning or adaptive teaching is a essentially a pedagogy mechanism. This way, the teacher can learn about student’s learning efficiency, their unique needs, and offer customised course delivery for best experience.

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Edsurge

JULY 19, 2016

In Spring 2016, faculty, support staff and administrators at Oregon State University met to candidly share their experiences with adaptive learning technology. First we talk about how language is one barrier to adopting adaptive technology. In a two-part video series, we share some of the highlights from our conversations.

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Neo LMS

MAY 23, 2019

This of course is easier said than done. When diverse learning materials are made accessible online whenever the student wants or needs, how many times and for how long they need, they are more in control. Self-paced asynchronous online courses are an obvious choice, although blended learning solutions can do the job as well.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

BOSTON (June 8, 2021) – Lexia Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, announced today that Florida’s Commissioner of Education has approved Lexia® Core5® Reading (Core5) as curriculum in elementary intervention courses. In fact, Lexia was the only company to make the list across K-5 intervention courses.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

we have been using adaptive learning since 2012, and we believe that a single constituency—painted by some as a barrier to the adoption of new technology in the classroom—is largely responsible for our success: our faculty. We often hear about the myriad benefits that adaptive learning offers students.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

This drives learner engagement, boosts retention rates and reduces the course dropout rates. Read more: 3 Gamification principles for a gamified learning environment. Educational institutions of all types and sizes are making use of gamification to create intangible incentives that drive successful learning results.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2019

It’s common these days to hear that free online mega-courses, called MOOCs, failed to deliver on their promise of educating the masses. But one outcome of that push towards open online courses was plenty of high-quality teaching material. Most MOOCs require users to sign up for them before they can even see what the course consists of.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2020

Quizzes and adaptive learning software give students opportunities to review content and practice basic skills with immediate feedback. In this model, students do most of their learning independently with materials designed for fully online courses, and meet periodically with teachers at a brick-and-mortar site.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2015

Partnership will bring personalized learning products to high schools in Japan. Knewton has announced a partnership with Classi to provide adaptive learning solutions to Japanese public schools. Knewton will power Classi’s digital courses to help high school students get a more personalized learning experience.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 24, 2017

Planning courses. In fact, it can take so much time to plan courses right that if teachers were to focus only on planning they wouldn’t have any time left for actually teaching courses. AI will give teachers the possibility to plan courses in a period of time more like an instant and less like an eternity. Let’s dive in!

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