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Technology is changing the face of university education, with virtual learning now becoming an essential part of ‘hands on’ degrees such as medicine, nursing and engineering.
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“When someone is teaching one-to-one, it’s a really intelligent and adaptive learning experience, as opposed to, for example, when someone just talks to 1000 people in a lecture,” he says. “We think of adaptive e-learning as a suite of tools that let teachers create really amazing learning experiences – they’re intelligent, they’re adaptive, they’re rich.” “Instead of giving you a piece of paper, we put it on a PDF and then you get it online and you still print it, so we didn’t change much there. Instead of a lecture, we still maybe do a video lecture – that’s hardly using the power of computers,” he says. Delete the scoop?
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The 7 Most Powerful Ideas In Learning Available Right Now
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each of the 7 is worth it and #7 Self-Directed Learning is almost certainly at the core of the future of learning. T is evenmore true for teachers Delete the scoop?
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We spoke with the founder and CEO of the adaptive learning platform Knewton. “We use data to make your education better, that’s it.” “We know everything about what you know and how you learn best because we get so much data. We can predict failure in advance, which means we can pre-remediate it in advance.”
Knewton has had students in 190 countries, and this fall over 600,000 students will use the platform. Mashable spoke with Ferreira about big data, what inspired his innovative approach to ed tech and the impact he hopes Knewton will have on the world of education and the world at large. Delete the scoop?
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Traditional American universities are suddenly running scared of YouTube, Xconomy reports, along with Vimeo, 5min, iTunes U, TED and the Internet Archive. Without YouTube, Sal Khan and Khan Academy could never have reached his 4 million unique viewers a month with their 3,200 videos, viewed 170 million times. Via Dennis T OConnor Delete the scoop?
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How do you personalize learning? First you need to know what personalized learning is. Here is a new site that provides resources, research, models, examples, and stories. This page provides a toolkit that can help your organization begin personalizing learning to meet the needs of all learners.
Check out the chart that compares Personalization, Differentiation, and Indivdiualization. You can download the chart and a report that explains the details of the chart. The Three Stages of Personalized Learning Environments can help you determine where you are in personalizing learning.
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) provides the framework in personalizing learning for all learners. UDL also guides the design of the Personal Learner Profile[TM]. It provides the UDL lens to select the appropriate tools for the Personal Learning Backpack[TM]. UDL guides how Personalized Learning meets the Common Core. Via Barbara Bray 
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November 6, 2012 5:41 PM
It could be probably replaced by this one: http://www.personalizelearning.com/p/toolkit.html
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Great learning is almost always one-size-fits-one.
We need to teach children individually, and in a way that doesn’t emphasize memorizing the right answer, but more realistically reflects how we learn and succeed in the real world.
But if learning is the issue--and especially learning in an age of information abundance--then we have to unlearn that old model. It is holding us back. No research--none--on how we actually learn a new skill outside the classroom supports the practices we have institutionalized in our schools. We do not learn the vitally important skills we need in the world by all learning the same way, in a lecture model, and then being tested at the end of the course. One-size-fits-all learning really fits no one particularly well. Great learning is almost always one-size-fits-one.
we send our kids off to school for 16 years on an educational model devised on the idea that you put them all in a room, talk at them, and then test them at the end by a standardized series of “best answer” questions that weren’t even written by the person who tested them. There’s a mismatch between content and the challenge, the score at the end and the exploratory, expansive, “search and find” world of learning that exists online or in the world of real-life employment where one is constantly tested and then needs to experiment to find the best methods, partners, and new skills to meet the challenge.
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Knewton is working on having educational content tagged so it can be placed into a “Knowledge Graph.” This system determines what concepts need to be learned before a student can move on to others, and how they all fit together.
The company recently parterned with Pearson to tag every textbook under their imprint work with the Knewton Knowledge Graph.
The technology seems to be working. After a pilot project at Arizona State University with 5,000 remedial math students, pass rates improved from 66 percent to 75 percent, with half the class finishing four weeks early.
“The professors are much better prepared for a single class so that they can give much more individualized instruction,” Lui said. “The practical effectiveness of this means that teachers are now able to use their time more efficiently to hone in on the things that are most troublesome or useful for different groups of students. You’re not teaching to the mean or bottom quartile.” Delete the scoop?
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Knewton Adaptive Learning FAQs for MyStudentSuccessLab with Knewton Adaptive Learning Delete the scoop?
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Check out this in-depth infographic all about Blended Learning. Learn what it is, why it's spreading, and how it works in real and virtual classrooms. Via David Truss Delete the scoop?
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Learning is most effective when it’s personalised.
The teachers role is changing from a one-to-many distributor of content (lecturing), to a facilitator of one-to-many personalized and blended learning environments, and reinforcement over time to create individual mastery. Technology must individually deliver proven accelerated learning methodologies for participants to enage the content interactively over time. The teacher will facilitate bettered individual learning outcomes through technologies.
The cool technology, like the iPad, is only individually valuable if the learning is truely changed from one-to-many to one-to-one. Via Ana Cristina Pratas, Gust MEES Delete the scoop?
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The real benefit of technology will be in the development of new learning progressions -- pathways that combine adaptive learning, social learning, and project-based learning -- that are engaging, efficient, and effective.
These new blended versions of school have four distinctive features:customized learning: students learn at the right level, pace and modecompetency-based: students progress based on demonstrated masteryproductive staffing: teams of teachers work together for student successexpanded opportunity: more time and more access to good teachers/content/courses Via Stephanie Sandifer Delete the scoop?
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One of he most well written piece - I highlighted almost everything! Barbara's blog outlines the differences between "personalization", "individualization" and "differentiation". These three words in education often are confused and misunderstood by professionals as well as the general community. Barbara concludes her remarks by what personalized learning would mean in the classroom. Thank you, Barbara!
"Personalizing learning starts with the learner. It is not personalized instruction. The teacher, the school, and textbook companies can individualize instruction for the different types of learners. Personalized learning means the students drive their learning and the teacher IS the guide on the side, the co-designer of their learning, and more of a facilitator to make sure the students are meeting their learning goals." Via Kathleen McClaskey Delete the scoop?
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Adaptive eLearning creates the best possible learning experience for students by emulating the talents of great educators. This is achieved by using technologies that adapt and shape teaching to the needs of the individual student. Delete the scoop?
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Adaptive learning offers an opportunity to enhance the instructional effectiveness of colleges and universities and to deliver more personalized pathways to students.
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Adaptive learning offers an opportunity to enhance the instructional effectiveness of colleges and universities and to deliver more personalized pathways to students Suppliers need to partner with institutions to understand where and how their solutions can demonstrate efficacy and value, and colleges and universities need to demonstrate a willingness to explore this academic technology innovation What institutions – and suppliers – cannot do is ignore strategies such as adaptive learning for personalizing the education experience for students and instructors alike. The inexorable march toward a learner-centric, outcomes orientation across the postsecondary landscape is here. Delete the scoop?
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The Foundation is soliciting proposals from accredited U.S. colleges and universities for 10, $100,000 grants to help them create the partnerships necessary to launch adaptive courses over the next two years. Via Alberto Acereda, PhD Delete the scoop?
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"Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free -- not just as a service, but as a way to research how people learn. Each keystroke, comprehension quiz, peer-to-peer forum discussion and self-graded assignment builds an unprecedented pool of data on how knowledge is processed and, most importantly, absorbed." Via João Greno Brogueira, Paulo Simões, Dennis T OConnor Delete the scoop?
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Limitations of Traditional Instruction Problem No. 1: Many Instructors Teach to a Certain Percentile of the Class
Problem No. 2: Students Frequently Do Not Receive Immediate Feedback Crucial to the Learning Process
Problem No. 3: In All but the Smallest Classes, the Student's Knowledge State Is a Black Box to the Instructor
Problem No. 4: Degrees Favor Time Spent in a Classroom over Demonstration of Competency
Problem No. 5: There Is Great Inefficiency in Creating Instruction within Higher Education
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Since its February launch, Pearson-backed education startup Alleyoop has been learning from the collective behavior of its student users. On Wednesday, it rolled out a new recommendation engine informed by the tens of thousands of new data inputs.
Alleyoop scale the ultimate educational experience, which is the valuable but expensive tutoring experience.
Alleyoop asks students to complete offline “missions,” such as talking to people about certain topics, and then report their experiences back to Alleyoop. Delete the scoop?
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http://diigo.com/0qqbf Mastery-based learning is a teaching method premised on the idea that student progression through a course should be dependent on proficiency as opposed to amount of time spent on academic work. Key features of mastery-based learning (MBL): 1. Curriculum design hinges on assessments Delete the scoop?
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"From understanding what digital literacy is, to developing skills and establishing ethical principles for students, our live chat panel share ideas and resources for universities...
Josie Fraser, social and educational technologist, Leicester City Council First define what you mean by digital literacy: The definition I most frequently use is this one: digital literacy = digital tool knowledge + critical thinking + social engagement. Then it's worth knowing its main characteristics: • It supports and helps develop traditional literacies Via Anne Whaits Delete the scoop?
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Two important technology changes include the digitization of educational content and the true personalization of instructional curriculum.
A chemistry app on the iPad called “The Elements.” The old idea of the Periodic Table as a boring, undecipherable mystery has been exploded like a bad chemistry experiment. “The Elements” makes chemistry cool.
This is truly frightening to the cabal of textbook publishers that controls the industry.
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Curation involves people — those who have both the skills and the knowledge to piece together their various collections. Via Susan Bainbridge, Gust MEES Delete the scoop?
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Against the backdrop of a student loan bubble, the high cost of four-year college, and an extremely difficult job market, alternate forms of skill certification are gaining steam. Chief among these is the digital badge.
vocational schools don’t grant degrees. They, nevertheless, have consistently higher rates of retention and graduation than four-year colleges or even two-year community colleges. Delete the scoop?
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Here at the World Economic Forum in Davos, among the banking, shipping, steel and transport magnates of the global economy, there are a number of technology entrepreneurs floating around.
Knewton, a technology company based in NYC, currently has an application being tested with 10,000 college student in the US and is described as an “adaptive learning platform”. What does that mean in English?
Well, the idea is that it customises your average educational content to meet the unique needs of each student. This is personalised education on steroids. Using thousands of data points — concepts, structure, difficulty level, media format — and data on how the person uses it, it’s like having a super smart teacher analyse everything you try to learn and suggest ways to make the process easier.
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Credit Without Teaching April 22, 2013 ByPaul FainEarlier this year Capella University and the new College for America began enrolling hundreds of students in academic programs without courses, teaching professors, grades, deadlines or credit hour requirements, but with a path to genuine college credit.
The two institutions are among a growing number that are giving competency-based education a try, including 25 or so nonprofit institutions. Notable examples include Western Governors University and the Kentucky Community and Technical College System.
These programs are typically online, and allow students to progress at their own pace without formal course material. They can earn credit by successfully completing assessments that prove their mastery in predetermined competencies or tasks -- maybe writing in a business setting or using a spreadsheet to perform calculations.
College for America and a small pilot program at Capella go a step further than the others, however, by severing any link to the credit hour standard. This approach is called “direct assessment.”