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CTU And UMUC Collaborate on Adaptive Learning and Everyone Benefits

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Sharing data, best practices, learning maps, and survey results has moved the needle on adaptive learning forward at our schools. Below, we focus on the joint work of CTU and UMUC, which, along the way, have discovered a common passion for using digital tools to promote student learning. Our Teams Engage.

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Failing Forward With Adaptive Learning in Higher Ed

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Conner tells EdSurge how the use of adaptive-learning tools offers extraordinarily promising results for more personalized learning and teaching experiences. She adds, however, that “student success in the courses with adaptive-learning systems was not different than in a traditional online course at UMUC.”

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Giving Thanks: The Top EdSurge Contributors of 2016

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Today, we’d like to call out nine of our contributors in particular, who’ve written the most popular articles of 2016. GROWING PAINS: In a recent national survey , 97 percent of teachers agreed that students should have a growth mindset. Educators and Administrators—From the 'Instruct' Newsletter Adaptive learning.

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This Math Program Helped Students Blow State Test Scores Out of the Water

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Some highlights: Fourth graders at Salt Creek improved their CAASPP scores by 137% of the state average in the 2016/2017 school year—their first year using the platform—and by 172% the following year. Post-Pilot Results : Succeeding with Common Core—Levered's 2018-19 survey. Source: Levered.

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This Math Program Helped Students Blow State Test Scores Out of the Water

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Some highlights: Fourth graders at Salt Creek improved their CAASPP scores by 137% of the state average in the 2016/2017 school year—their first year using the platform—and by 172% the following year. Post-Pilot Results : Succeeding with Common Core—Levered's 2018-19 survey. Source: Levered.

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It Takes a Village to Bring Adaptive Technology to Scale

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Colorado Technical University (CTU) began the adoption of adaptive-learning courses in late 2012. We have just over 100 courses using our proprietary adaptive technology (called intellipath ), 400 faculty trained to use the technology, and approximately 55,000 students who have used it in CTU courses. How did we do it?

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Digital Learning’s Pioneers Are Cautiously Optimistic

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The small amount of research to date on how adaptive learning technology impacts student outcomes is inconclusive. April 2016 study from SRI Education found that students in adaptive courses performed slightly better on assessments than those in a traditional lecture. Where’s the evidence that this makes a difference?”.