Tag Archives: Personalization & Adaptive Learning

Cognitive Tutor

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Carnegie Learning, Inc. is a leading publisher of innovative, research-based math curricula for middle school, high school, and post-secondary students. Providing differentiated instruction to schools across the United States, Carnegie Learning is helping students to succeed in math, creating a gateway to graduation and preparing them for the 21st century.

Cognitive Tutor is an adaptive curricula software based on over 20 years of research into how students think and learn. The software was developed around an artificial intelligence model that identifies weaknesses in each individual student’s mastery of mathematical concepts. It then customizes prompts to focus on areas where the student is struggling, and sends the student to new problems that address those specific concepts. The result is a powerful learning tool with the most precise method of differentiating instruction available.

Degree Compass

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Degree Compass is a course recommendation system originally developed by Austin Peay State University in Tennessee. The system successfully pairs current students with the courses that best fit their talents and program of study for upcoming semesters. The model combines hundreds of thousands of past students’ grades with each particular student’s transcript to make individualized recommendations for each student.

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Desire2Learn Degree Compass is a personalized, web-based course recommendation tool that uses predictive analytics to guide students’ course selection in a way that not only enhances the rate of academic success but also drives on-time completion of their degree.

Built for both advisors and students, Degree Compass delivers real-time academic advisement that helps students plan the most successful path to graduation from the moment they begin making first-year course selections right through to their final term of study.

Degree Compass: A Course Recommendation System

A review of Degree Compass on Trsitan Denley published on September 4, 2013

Dreambox Learning

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DreamBox Learning offers a deeply personalized K-8 math environment that combines rigorous curriculum for deep conceptual understanding, a highly-engaging environment, and an industry-leading Intelligent Adaptive Learning technology. The combination of high-quality curriculum with intelligent technology delivers a powerful pedagogy and learning environment. The Intelligent Adaptive Learning technology tracks each student interaction and evaluates the strategies used to solve problems. Dynamically adapting in real time, within and between lessons, millions of personalized learning paths tailored to each student’s unique needs are created. The DreamBox student driven learning environment, differentiates content, pace, and sequence for the any level of student achievement so every student can learn to think critically, understand deeply and have a life-long love for and confidence in math.

Knewton

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Knewton is an education technology company that personalizes digital courses so every student is engaged and no one slips through the cracks. As students progress through a Knewton-powered course, Knewton figures out what each student knows and how that student learns best, then recommends what to study next. Teachers use Knewton-powered predictive analytics to detect gaps in knowledge and differentiate instruction for each student.

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LeMo

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A collaboration between three German universities in Berlin and four partners in the e-learning sector, the project LeMo (monitoring of learning processes on personalizing and non-personalizing learning management systems) aims to develop a prototype of a web based Learning Analytics application, which provides detailed information on user navigational patterns within learning management systems and identifies needs for enhancement and revision of the learning offer. Target groups are content-provider, teacher and researcher.

Pearson

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One of the leading companies in education, Pearson collaborates with institutions and educators to provide customized and personalized educational solutions and services that help to improve student outcomes. Leveraging advanced capabilities in data, analytics and adaptive learning, they enable institutions to analyze trends in student performance, track their achievement of learning objectives, and create a personalized and adaptive learning path for each student.

Pearson Learning Studio is a learning management system (LMS) for fully online programs. Pearson leverages insights gained from decades of data analytics – data from students, educators, administrators and institutions – to inform smarter content and smarter technologies. Serving over 9 million active users, Pearson LearningStudio offers the most extensive online learning data available. Coupled with powerful analytics tools, our customers can design more effective courses, train instructors to create more successful learning environments and drive students to behaviors that increase achievement.

Pearson MyLab & Mastering uses Adaptive Learning in several online higher education courses to continuously assesses student performance and activity in real time, using data and analytics, to personalizes content to reinforce concepts that target the student’s particular strengths and weaknesses.

Smart Sparrow

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Smart Sparrow is an Australian ed-tech start-up pioneering adaptive and personalized learning technology. Real-time Learning Analytics provide actionable insights into what students know, what misconceptions they may have, and how they are interacting with content. There are three levels of adaptivity that have been built into the platform in order to empower teachers – Adaptive Feedback based on what the student does and knows, Adaptive Pathways that offer varying sequences of content to each student, and the ability for an instructor to Adapt their Teaching – change the content based on an analysis of how their students learn.

Adaptive eLearning is a new learning and teaching medium that uses an Intelligent Tutoring System to adapt online learning to the student’s level of knowledge. Adaptive eLearning provides students with customised educational content and the unique feedback that they need, when they need it.