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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The methodology used in this programme and the REFLECT approach to training have been officially recognised by Ministry of Education in Vietnam and, as a result, has been officially adopted as the key method in adult literacy programmes.

UNESCO: Literacy and Community Development Programme (LCDP)

Its well-structured method of training newly literate women as journalists and democratizing information production provides an easily replicated model of transformative education.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

That world began when Johannes Gutenberg introduced the printing press in 1455, and gave birth along the way to the Reformation, the Age of Reason, the Enlightenment, the Scientific Method, and finally the Industrial Revolution not to mention the modern era of newspapers, universal education and, yes, mass literacy.

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