Deb Adai, The EvoLLLution, January 4, 2016 The prospect of identifying trends that will have the greatest impact on higher education in the very near future does not seem too arduous a task.  Amidst all of this pushing and pulling, the trends that appear to be getting the most attention in 2016...

Rochelle Diogenes, acrobatiq, November 24, 2015 Both the science of learning outcomes or objectives and adaptive learning originated at about the same time in the 1950’s. They have been connected ever since. The goal of both is to enhance cognition which comprises the mental processes involved in...

Dave Doucette, Ed Tech Magazine, December 1, 2015 Blame it on the human condition, but it seems that people are more receptive to information when they are shown how it relates to them — their lives, their interests, their needs. As educators picked up on that fact years ago, we saw the beginning...

Paul Fain, insidehigheredn.com  November 16, 2015 A national association of public universities is throwing its weight behind the use of adaptive courseware, an emerging form of online course delivery that responds to students’ learning styles and levels of achievement. The Association of Public...

Emma Lundy,  Adaptive Learning, Publishing, August 20, 2015 Although EdTech is an ever-expanding field in which innovative developments are being made at an increasingly fast pace, one of its most exciting areas is adaptive learning. Adaptive learning technologies are changing education in order...

Adaptive Learning Theory, October 3, 2015 In ELT circles, ‘behaviourism’ is a boo word. In the standard history of approaches to language teaching (characterised as a ‘procession of methods’ by Hunter & Smith 2012: 432[1]), there were the bad old days of behaviourism until Chomsky came along,...

Philip Kerr, adaptivelearningelt.wordpress.com,  October 29, 2015 Decent research into adaptive learning remains very thin on the ground.  Disappointingly, the Journal of Learning Analytics has only managed one issue so far in 2014, compared to three in 2014.  But I recently came across...