Come learn how a team of instructors at the University of Mississippi are using adaptive learning modules to
personalize the learning environment and level the field for underserved and underprepared students.
Directors of the first-year writing course at the University of Mississippi worked with a content development team at Lumen Waymaker to tackle the problem of wide variability in student preparation for the first year writing class. Together they designed adaptive modules that personalized the three primary learning environments of the course: the classroom, the online learning modules, and one-on-one interactions between students and instructors. In transforming the learning environments, these instructors flipped the course once to implement active learning, and again to implement personalized learning.
In this session, the presenters will use narrative, data, and visuals to achieve the session’s three goals. Participants will be encouraged to share their instructional challenges, to ask questions, and to brainstorm solutions together. While the session is a presentation, participants will leave with actionable ideas for implementing personalized learning as a way to solve unique challenges they have in their own undergraduate courses.
Goals
1. To demonstrate how writing instructors can save time in the classroom for writing through the use of intentionally designed tutorials, practice tools, and immediate feedback.
2. To describe how instructor and student feedback is facilitated through a common blog, and student focus groups, as well as being embedded into writing prompts designed for metacognitive reflection on the writing process.
3. To share preliminary quantitative data comparing the learning outcomes of 2,000+ students, half of which are using a personalized learning system in their writing class and half of which are not.
Presentation outline
1. Overview of problem: the wide variability in student preparation for the first year writing class.
2. Why the team chose personalized learning as a potential solution.
3. The process of designing and building personalized learning modules and communication tools.
4. What the comparative data and student feedback reveal about the effectiveness of the changes madeto the course.
5. Participant share-out and brainstorming their instructional challenges.
6. Q & A for presenters
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