Recognizes the best education solution that is specifically developed to personalize the learning process or path at postsecondary level. The solution should provide online tools, content, or platforms that support anytime/anywhere learning, project-based/authentic learning, competency-based progression, and/or student-driven learning paths.
Helix Personalized Learning - Altius Education
Helix is an online learning environment that combines the powers of storytelling, big data, social learning, and adaptive technology to fundamentally change the way students experience online education. Acting on research in cognitive science, the Helix environment customizes every course through storytelling—unique tales that are personalized to students’ interests and degree goals. Using stories provides a narrative framework for learning that improves retention and also adds relevance to the subject matter. The environment is further personalized using Helix’s adaptive capabilities. Depending on students’ aptitude, pace, and degree goals his or her program will be tailored to fit a specific learning persona. Big data means big possibilities—aggregated data on courses and student teacher interactions is collected so that instructional designers have the information they need to improve the content and organization of each class. Social learning experiences are also integrated throughout the environment. A collaborative answer forum provides students and instructors with a platform to openly exchange ideas and help each other master course content. Helix’s increased efficiency will ultimately allow us to lower the cost of a degree program and provide more students with access to a quality higher education.
Blackboard Learn, Blackboard’s flagship online learning platform, is a teaching and learning platform focused on increasing student achievement through the cycle of engagement and assessment. The solution is a comprehensive online technology platform for teaching and learning, community building, content management, and outcomes assessment. It’s flexible, easy to use, and able to evolve to meet institutional needs. Blackboard Learn™ features a sleek, modern design and brings a number of feature enhancements that make it easy to navigate the system, take advantage of its powerful capabilities and complete common tasks more quickly. Instructors have the ability to customize and personalize the visual presentation of their courses with over 50 pre-built course themes. To help instructors get started quickly and successfully, the solution adds a quick course set-up guide including a set of course structures and content options that have been designed in accordance with pedagogical best practices.
MindTap is an interactive, customizable, and complete online course solution that is changing the way educators think about teaching and learning. With MindTap everything is included in one cloud-based solution.
McGraw-Hill SimNet Online - McGraw-Hill Higher Education Group
McGraw-Hill SimNet® for Office is a complete online learning system designed to teach and assess student competency in Microsoft®. SimNet utilizes a completely online, simulated Microsoft Office and Windows environment requiring only high-speed internet, Adobe Flash Player, and Internet Explorer or Firefox browser. SimNet Online offers an extensive number of learning tasks, assessment and practice questions available for: Access, Excel, Computer Concepts, Office Overview, Outlook, and Windows. As an added bonus, SimNet Online also offers more than 10,000 objective questions which directly correspond to many popular textbooks.
SimNet Online's dedicated server farm is fully managed, backed-up daily, and hosted in a redundant, secure, state-of-the-art data center. In order to further safe-guard student grades and personal information, SimNet Online also implements a 128-bit secure socket layer (SSL) for all communications.
MyEconLabs Study Plan, in select courses, will now be powered by Knewton, a powerful adaptive learning engine that tailors learning material to meet the unique needs of each student.
How does it work? The MyEconLab Adaptive Study Plan monitors students performance on homework, quizzes and tests and recommends additional practice in a variety of question types including problems. The sophisticated Adaptive Study Plan provides recommendations taking into account such things as personal proficiencies, number of attempts, difficulty of questions and more! In addition, the Adaptive Study Plan can extrapolate student's future trouble spots and provide them with learning material and practice to avoid pitfalls.
Once the student receives recommendation for additional practice, the powerful MyEconLab learning aids provide personalized tutorial help through a variety of rich multi-media such as videos, an interactive e-Text, Help Me Solve This and graphing tools. This ensures that the student is indeed mastering the concepts, not just guessing answers.
Students can view their progress within MyEconLabs Adaptive Study Plan powered by Knewton
MyMathLab with Knewton Adaptive Learning - Pearson
MyMathLab is a series of online courses that accompany Pearsons textbooks in mathematics and statistics. MyMathLab engages students in active learning its modular, self-paced, accessible anywhere with Web access, and adaptable to each students learning style“ and instructors can easily customize MyMathLab to better meet their students needs.
The Study Plan in select courses will now include a powerful adaptive learning engine that monitors each students performance and provides personalized recommendations. These recommendations guide students through the contents of the Study Plan, presenting the next objective each must master. Individualized learning paths, working together with your course assignments, help your students gain comprehensive mastery as efficiently as possible.
Propero is a self-paced, online learning program that allows students to earn credits toward their undergraduate degrees in an accelerated manner.
The program, typically adopted by colleges and universities and then offered to students as a sanctioned alternative or complement to traditional courses, allows students to work through course material and assignments at their own pace, in a personalized way, with on-demand academic support.
All Propero courses include instructional content designed to support a variety of learning styles, including a built-in eTextbook, audio, video, and interactive exercises, all delivered via Pearsons hosted learning management system.
As students progress through a gated assessment model, they are provided feedback to help them target their study to particular topics. Propero includes online, on-demand tutoring, as well as personalized academic advising to support students and aid with learning strategies as they earn college credit.
All courses have gone through a rigorous review process by American Council on Education (ACE) that allows students to earn credit at a large network of over 1,800 participating colleges and universities.
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