To Petraeus and his advisers, however, the project presented a prime example of adaptive learning.
They recently acquired a 20 percent equity stake in Area9 Aps, a Denmark-based adaptive learning company.
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The LearnSmart Advantage suite enables institutions to adopt adaptive learning as an institution-wide practice, creating a cycle of student performance improvement across disciplines and classes.
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Adaptive learning also benefits instructors: By better preparing students for class, adaptive learning enables instructors to spend more time delving into advanced concepts and engaging students in high-level discussion.
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By allowing students to focus their outside-of-class study time on the topics and concepts that are most challenging to them, adaptive learning has been shown to help students study more efficiently, develop greater proficiency and earn better grades.
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In addition to his Netflix day job and presence on the boards of Microsoft and Facebook, the former President of the California State Board of Education is a lead investor in adaptive learning provider Dreambox.
Adaptive learning is a method of education that seeks to personalize learning by using sophisticated algorithmic technology to continually assess students' knowledge, skill and confidence levels and design targeted study paths based on the resulting data to bolster students' understanding in the areas where they need to improve the most.
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As Khan explained how his team is setting up its network, it reminded me that those who are discounting the long-term value of entities such as the Khan Academy and Knewton, an adaptive learning platform, may be making a significant mistake, as both are positioning themselves to make a run at being the learning platform of the future.
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They are adaptive testing and learning (66 percent), use of prior learning assessments (64 percent), and awarding credit for proven competency (60 percent).
With more than 1 million unique student users "Since the launch of LearnSmart in 2009, we've developed a deep understanding of how personalized learning through adaptive technology helps improve student performance, " said Brian Kibby, president of McGraw-Hill Higher Education.
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As digital learning improves and becomes more adaptive, this ability to assist each individual student in finding and working on the right learning experience for her will improve.
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The majority of the online learning courses out there are not adaptive, as the term should be properly understood.
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We can do it through adaptive, mobile, game-based learning.
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