e-Learning Ecologies MOOC’s Updates
Personalized learning
Personalized learning is nowadays the combined efforts to tailor education to meet the different needs of students with different educational levels. This concept is highly satisfied during the present era of e-learning since technology involved in education is much more flexible than old classic education that was not able to fluctuate into higher and lower levels to meet all the students learning abilities.
The personalized learning has solved a major problem that faces all educators all around the world which is learning disabilities. Such disabilities are presented forms and different intensities and that's why every personalized learning institutaion (Whether it is a shcool, a website, a blog...etc) has an important section called the disability specific tools that is used to overcome these disabilities in different ways.
The example I am going to present in this update is the KNEWTON website.
As its clearly observed from the introduction sentence labeled in the red rectangle on the figure "No two students come from the same background or learn the same way". This introduction is a clear demonstration for the policyof that website that strongly beleives in differentiated global learning.
This is another picture that shows that Knewton also beleives in adaptive learning (labeled in red) which is a computer based online education system that modifies the presentation of material in response to student performance.
This is all achieved through various platfroms that enhance e-learning through digital tools including videos, lectures and presentations in addition to routin based quizes and tests in order to diagnose the learner's ability in order to classify him in a correct level that matches his skills, and starting from that point the learner will be subjected to tasks and assignments that truely fit with his learning objectives.
Why did you choose Knewton? What's special about Knewton? You describes some sentences they use, and these sentences fits the idea of personalized learning, but can you tell more about how it works? Seems to me nowadays there are a growing amount of MOOC's like this. How do we make a choice between all these possibilities? What are criteria for a great MOOC?
This seems to be using the same kind of adaptive technology that tests like the GRE have been using for a long time that move up a level when you do well or down a level when you are answering questions incorrectly, except that there isn't a stigma or penalty for being redirected either way.
Thanks for sharing this information, Ibrahim. I love to find out about new teaching tools!