By John K. Waters, THE Journal
Partnerships between tech companies and publishers are turning an ed tech buzzword into a reality, but, as one expert says, “It’s going to take some time to get it right.” But interest in adaptive learning has been heating up in the last couple of years, thanks to new attention from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, new partnerships among education publishers and adaptive platform providers, and a growing list of product vendors. Along with that increasing interest and expanding vendor landscape has come a fair bit of confusion about exactly what the term “adaptive learning” means. In conversation, it’s almost synonymous with “personalized learning,” but in practice, these are different concepts, and K-12 districts investigating systems that promise to deliver adaptive learning should understand that difference.
http://thejournal.com/articles/2014/05/14/adaptive-learning-are-we-there-yet.aspx
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