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Adaptive Learning: Personalization, System Models, and Implementations

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Summary

Adaptive learning uses technology to tailor instruction to individual learners. This lesson introduces the purpose of adaptive learning, its historical roots, and the evidence that informs its use.

Adaptive learning, also called adaptive teaching, uses computer algorithms and artificial intelligence to adjust educational resources and activities to a learner's needs. A system may use a learner's answers, task performance, or other experiences to decide what material to present next.

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Adaptive learning
An approach that uses learner information to customize educational resources and activities.
Expert model
The system component that stores subject matter and may represent expert problem-solving methods.
Student model
The system component that tracks a learner’s estimated skills, strengths, or weaknesses.
Instructional model
The system component that chooses how to present learning material and feedback.
Instructional environment
The interface through which a learner interacts with an adaptive learning system.

Quiz questions

  1. What does computerized adaptive testing (CAT) do as a learner responds to questions?Answer: It updates an estimate of skill and selects later questions based on that estimate.
  2. A learner simplifies 2x2+x32x^2 + x^3 as 3x53x^5. What possible misconception does this answer suggest?Answer: Adding coefficients and exponents even though the terms are unlike.
  3. What is the purpose of the ALGAE model in educational technology?Answer: To guide the design of educational computer games by combining game design, instruction, and adaptation.
  4. What does an inference engine do in an advanced adaptive learning tool?Answer: It applies information and rules to determine what should happen next.
  5. Which description best distinguishes basic branching from richer adaptivity?Answer: Branching follows predefined routes, while richer systems can respond to multiple kinds of learner information.

Based on the Wikipedia article Adaptive learning, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Adapted into a summary, flashcards and quizzes.

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