How do we move the needle to achieve better student outcomes in courses? Learn from two large grants, the Digital Learning Innovation Awards managed by the Online Learning Consortium and Accelerating Adaptive Learning managed by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities how faculty are leveraging digital tools for classroom, blended or online to make a difference.
Eight public research universities have accelerated the adoption of adaptive courseware as part of Accelerating Adaptive Courseware grant managed by APLU. As of June 30, 2017 over 23,504 enrollments in 264 course sections. By January, the grantees will be 18 months into the three year scaling work. Even the first year progress offers insights and success stories. Both the faculty and institutional support units are learning how to couple the adaptive courseware data to help faculty change pedagogy in other areas of the course. The combination improved teaching practices based on adaptive courseware data seems promising. Understanding the early 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. Our shared goal is to finding ways to decrease costs while delivering high quality education to an expanded and more diverse student body, and we can only do that when we embrace new models for monitoring and improving student performance. The Digital Learning Innovation Awards (DLIAward) submissions capture the current state of digital courseware implementations across undergraduate institutions of higher education. DLIAwards are granted at two tiers, institution-wide implementations, and faculty-lead team implementations. The annual award showcases the exemplary use of digital courseware to improve student success, especially among minority, first-generation and other underrepresented student groups. The award winners like the institutions committed to scaling adaptive courseware provide a powerful learning opportunity. These awards are only granted to those whose solution is based in learning science research and provide clear and complete evidence of project impact and student success. With a nationally focused lens on increasing the number of undergraduate students who complete foundation or gateway courses, the presenters will combine the insights, challenges and successes of the projects to provide the audience with a set of key takeaways.