{"id":64,"date":"2020-04-10T00:39:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T05:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/everylearnereverywhere.com\/?p=64"},"modified":"2023-06-08T15:07:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T20:07:37","slug":"how-do-you-know-your-college-or-university-is-ready-for-adaptive-learning-look-for-these-criteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everylearnereverywhere.org\/es\/blog\/how-do-you-know-your-college-or-university-is-ready-for-adaptive-learning-look-for-these-criteria\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessing Adaptive Learning Readiness at Your Institution? Look for These Criteria."},"content":{"rendered":"

When a college or university considers using adaptive learning technology in its classrooms, a basic question it must confront is if it is ready. Are the culture, capacity, and resources in place to succeed?<\/span><\/p>\n

Every Learner Everywhere\u00ae works with its partner institutions to assess their readiness to implement adaptive learning. In 2019, for example, they worked with 10 \u201cLighthouse\u201d institutions that piloted the use of adaptive learning in over 40 entry-level courses. (<\/span>Lighthouse institutions<\/span><\/a> are the first colleges and universities served by the network and that produced insight and data about equity-centered implementations of digital learning technologies.)<\/span><\/p>\n

The pilot of these courses was preceded by a needs assessment to understand the adaptive learning readiness and capacity at those colleges and universities.. Three of the network partners, Achieving the Dream, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), and Digital Promise crafted the needs assessment and provided technical assistance.<\/span><\/p>\n

Megan Tesene, Associate Director of the Personalized Learning Consortium at APLU, says the consulting partners met with cross-functional project teams that included faculty, instructional support staff, and other stakeholders. \u201cEach of us had guiding questions about things we wanted to look at on campus,\u201d she says.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWho\u2019s interested in this work, who\u2019s involved in it, and what are the institutional capacities? We did a lot of questioning and looked at the breadth of the different resources they had on campus. We also looked at the ability and commitment to integrate existing resources into supporting the initiative.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Below are seven of the criteria that emerged and that institutions should consider using to evaluate adaptive learning readiness.<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Alignment\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n

Success will depend on communication, collaboration, and coordination across multiple groups of stakeholders at a college or university.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere needs to be an understanding at the administrative level that faculty need space and time to do this work,\u201d Tesene says. \u201cIt\u2019s not just plugging a tool in. It must be integrated into the pedagogy and into the course design.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Tesene recommends coordinating with the campus teaching and learning centers as well as with IT to make sure the courseware integrates into the learning management system (LMS).<\/span><\/p>\n