Achieving Scale in Personalized Learning: Adaptive Courseware Deployments at Eight Public Universities

Concurrent Session 3

Brief Abstract

Scaled use of adaptive courseware encompasses an institution-wide commitment to student success, coordinated faculty development to improve instruction, adoption of high-quality content and flexible technologies that enable performance tracking, and end-user tools that support learners in guiding themselves. Learn how eight public universities are using adaptive courseware to personalizing learning at scale. 

Presenters

Lead Presenter: Karen Vignare, Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities

Dr. Karen Vignare is a strategic innovator who has been leveraging emerging technologies to improve access, success and flexibility within higher education for over 20 years. Dr. Karen Vignare currently serves as the Executive Director of the Personalized Learning Consortium at the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities. The PLC’s mission is to support public universities as they rapidly infuse technology that supports improved student learning, retention and graduation. She has a Ph.D. from Nova Southeastern University in Computer Technology and Education and a M.B.A from the William Simon Business School at University of Rochester.

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OLC Accelerate 2017 Institutional Strategies and Globalization Institutional change Scale

Extended Abstract

Finding ways to decrease costs while delivering high quality education to an expanded and more diverse student body demands that public higher education embrace new models for monitoring and improving student performance. When fully realized at a university, scaled use of adaptive courseware encompasses an institution-wide commitment to student success and degree completion, coordinated faculty development to improve instruction, adoption of high-quality content and flexible technologies that enable performance tracking, and end-user tools that support learners in guiding themselves. The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) has partnered with eight public research universities to accelerate the adoption of adaptive courseware over three academic years. We believe that understanding the successes and challenges, and sharing these experiences broadly, are critical to improving the way adaptive courseware is developed, promoted, selected, delivered, assessed, and enhance over time. As we enter the second year of this three-year effort, join us for an update on our progress as these institutions work to personalize learning for students in ways that promote completion while containing costs.