Best Practices for Electronically Offered Degree and Certificate Programs (courtesy of NEASC)
Adaptive learning is a pedagogical strategy grounded in years of academic research in the disciplines of cognitive psychology, brain and cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. Its goal is to provide a unique educational experience to each student in an online course by adapting the content to the student's preferred way of learning. This individualization helps students learn faster, more effectively, and with greater long-term retention.
Until now, online courses have assumed that everyone can learn simply by reading information displayed on a computer screen. If this were true, there would be no need for colleges, universities, schools, or teachers; everyone could go to the library and learn everything they needed to know by reading books.
In fact, different people learn in different ways. iDL understands this simple fact, and has created the only online course authoring system to incorporate pedagogy tailored to each individual student.
iDL's adaptive learning system is made up of two crucial components:
Learning Styles and Intelligent Feedback
