ASU and CogBooks are developing a first of its kind integrated adaptive curriculum in undergraduate education. Entitled the “BioSpine,” this project will develop an adaptable learning environment so that collaborative teaching communities can create concept charts and content that can be configured into courses by faculty to enable student success.
Arizona State University and CogBooks are developing a first of its kind integrated adaptive curriculum in undergraduate education. Entitled the “BioSpine,” this project will develop an adaptable learning environment for students going through the undergraduate Biology curriculum so that collaborative teaching communities can create concept charts and content that can be configured into courses by faculty to enable student success.
Students at ASU and beyond will benefit from personalized learning paths through the curriculum without being bound by a specific course or textbook. Faculty will be in control of the process to create and utilize lessons that fit their course sequence.
An additional goal of the project is to generate a large scale integrated learning research project in higher education. The opportunity exists for multiple institutions and tens of thousands of students to use the BioSpine which would enable a massive data set on student learning. That data set will then be open to the broader teaching and research community to test hypotheses on how to educate biology students most effectively and efficiently.
The statistically significant gains that adaptive learning is showing in other disciplines demonstrate that you can personalize the delivery of content at scale to increased outcomes and reduced attrition. These learning gains have shown tremendous promise to solve the challenge of delivering education at a lower cost, with higher quality, and wider access.