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

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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. 
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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.

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