ASU Remote 2022: The future of higher education is blended
Learn how blended learning supports students and how institutions can future-proof themselves by building the infrastructure for blended degree programs.
Digital Learning & Courseware
ASU Remote 2022: Strategies for Implementing Digital Learning Infrastructure to Support Equitable Outcomes
Representatives from institutions that implemented digital learning discuss how these technologies improved student success in lower level courses.
Supporting Student Success at the Course Level
This report describes the Every Learner Everywhere supports for lighthouse institutions, the experiences and accomplishments of course improvement teams at those institutions, and implications for future efforts to improve teaching and learning practices in higher education.
Online Teaching Strategies to Promote Equity and Inclusion
Evidence-based frameworks to welcome and support all students, regardless of their background, abilities, identities, needs, or preferences.
A Case Study of Houston Community College
Faculty at HCC led efforts to implement adaptive courseware in introductory mathematics and economics courses.
Strategies for Implementing Digital Learning Infrastructure to Support Equitable Outcomes
This report focuses on building the core infrastructure needed for high-quality digital learning and is designed primarily for a mid- to senior-level academic administrators including department chairs, leaders of centers of teaching and learning, technology leaders, and academic leadership.
Engage! Using Adaptive Courseware and Digital Technology to Enhance Student Learning
Chemistry faculty use adaptive learning platforms, static homework, in-class active learning activities, and digital monitoring to enhance student learning and engagement.
A Case Study of Adaptive Learning Technology in the Humanities
A case study on applying adaptive learning technology in English Composition to help more students persist and succeed.
A Case Study of Amarillo College
A case study on integrating adaptive tools into course redesign provides instructional design support and integrated adaptive technology.
Every Learner 2021 Annual Report
This year our network has prioritized increasing our knowledge and capacity for equity and racial justice work along with centering equity and racial justice in our resources and services. In addition to our personal and professional equity work, we have spent this last year inviting students into our work.
The Blended Institution for Higher Education: A Model for a Sustainable Institution
This guide is meant to support leaders as they transition from managing reactively to leading strategically and offers leaders a sustainable institutional model that centers on student equity and success.
APLU Adapt 2021: Finding the Right Fit
In this session, faculty and academic leadership share the process of evaluating, selecting, or building adaptive courseware to be implemented in their courses and on their campuses.
APLU Adapt 2021: Faculty Professional Learning
This faculty professional learning session helps faculty and educators to identify and engage a strategic set of stakeholders to support a strong implementation plan for adaptive courseware.
APLU Adapt 2021: Closing Plenary
Van Davis, Every Learner Everywhere shares Key Takeaways & Call to Action from ADAPT 2021.
APLU Adapt 2021: Teaching Matters
Faculty discuss course design choices and pedagogical practices that accompany the effective implementation of adaptive courseware.
APLU Adapt 2021: Student Reflections on the Adaptive Digital Learning Experiences
Students discuss their experiences with adaptive courseware and other learning technologies, and how these have affected their learning in different courses.
APLU Adapt 2021: Opening Plenary
An opening plenary on the critical role technology plays in increasing access to educational and employment opportunities for post-secondary learners.
APLU Adapt 2021: Lighting the Way
Academic leaders share their experiences and advice for approaching, sustaining, and scaling best practices with adaptive learning.
APLU Adapt 2021: How to Use Data in the Classroom
This session will explore how faculty leverage real time learning data analytics from adaptive courseware dashboards to guide their instruction.
APLU Adapt 2021: How to Create More Equitable Courses through a Continuous Improvement Process
Faculty and educational researchers describe how to refine and improve courses; evaluate the impact of pedagogical changes; and center quality research design.
Adaptive Learning in Math Courses
Explore how adaptive learning tools and practices can transform math courses to increase student success.
A Case Study of Adaptive Learning Technology in Science
The study suggests that adaptive learning technology helped students who need support with prerequisite concepts, provided tools to help guide students through complex, multistep processes, gave faculty insights into concepts students were struggling with, and reduced the cost of course materials.
Strategic Staffing for a Digital Future
An overview of the APLU Winter 2021 Digital-Forward Skills and Roles Workshop, which identified and described emergent digital-forward skill sets and roles.
Adaptive Courseware as a Tool to Master Complex Concepts
This case study examines the efforts at three of the seven ATD network colleges participating in the Every Learner Everywhere initiative who focused on these disciplines as part of their efforts to implement adaptive courseware as a tool in gateway courses to help more students persist and succeed.
Integrating Adaptive Courseware as Part of a Comprehensive Redesign of a Gateway Math Course
Miami Dade College: Integrating Adaptive Courseware as Part of a Comprehensive Redesign of a Gateway Math Course
Supporting Greater Integration of Adaptive Courseware in Gateway Courses
Faculty at Broward College led implementation and integration of adaptive courseware efforts in introductory course design and activities.
Integrating Adaptive Courseware into Broader Efforts to Improve Teaching and Learning
Indian River State College considered adaptive courseware a potentially powerful tool in its ongoing efforts to improve teaching and learning in online instruction and overall engagement and outcomes for students in math, physical sciences, and English.
Re-Writing Writing
This report summarizes the work of the Re-Writing Writing workshop where we invited a diverse range of digital learning experts to bring their distributed knowledge of digital tools to a four-session virtual workshop.
Lessons Learned: A Toolkit for Post-Pandemic Higher Education with Equity and Student Care at the Center
Lessons Learned is made up of over 30 recommendations for improving practices in higher education. It asks where unexpected benefits showed themselves among the forced necessity of emergency remote teaching, and it encourages faculty, administrators, and academic and student support colleagues to continue collaborating to remove barriers, improve access, and update methods and tools.
Teaching Practices of Faculty Adopting Adaptive Courseware
In fall 2020, Digital Promise administered a survey to a group of educators at selected two-year colleges and four-year universities to better understand the teaching practices they employ and the ways in which they use adaptive courseware in their gateway courses.
Teaching with a Cobot, not a Robot
This presentation explores four dimensions of motivation and feedback, two learning science pillars that engage students in the learning process and fosters long-term memories with active and adaptive learning.
Development and Implementation of Active, Interactive, and Adaptive Physics Courses
Faculty share experiences of developing and implementing active, interactive, and adaptive introductory physics courses. The design allows students to work at their own pace, choosing support items presented to them via the adaptive feature of the course, and explore concepts through simulations with activities.
Emerging SMART Technologies
Learn about the development and impact of the Internet of Everything (IoE) SMART technologies (EduGadget) of mobile devices, smartphones, wearables, and virtual – augmented reality.
Time for Class The State of Digital Learning and Courseware Adoption
Time for Class is a comprehensive longitudinal survey of 4,000+ higher education faculty and administrators, fielded since 2014 by Tyton Partners.
Integrating Adaptive Learning in Mathematics
Seven colleges implement adaptive courseware in gateway math courses and find it is a necessary corequisite in supporting student success.
A Faculty-Centered Approach to Successfully Implementing Adaptive Courseware
Faculty at Cuyahoga Community College led efforts to implement and then scale adaptive courseware for gateway courses in more than a half-dozen disciplines.
Implementing Adaptive Courseware in Gateway Math and Business Courses
Faculty in several disciplines at Lorain County Community College explored the use of adaptive courseware, ultimately implementing it in a gateway statistics course and several business courses.
Culturally Relevant Neuroeducation Practices + Tech Tools = Equitable Classroom Environments
Neuroeducation strategies can help faculty feel more effective, create a warm and equitable learning environment, and improve student outcomes.
ASU Remote 2021: All Access Pass: Course “Re” Design with Adaptive Learning
Learn about the work of faculty at the University of Central Florida who improved accessibility and equity through the adoption of adaptive learning practices.
ASU Remote 2021: Adaptive Courseware in Support of Student Success
How personalized digital learning technology can support evidence-based teaching.
ASU Remote 2021: A Course Redesign Project: Adaptive Courseware in Biology
How to design an adaptive Biology course with effectiveness and scale in mind to change student outcomes.
ASU Remote 2021: Enacting Impactful Research Methods in Our Educational Process and Practice
An overview of how continuous improvement strategies in our educational process and practice can be used to improve student engagement and increase academic success.
Caring for Students Playbook: Six Recommendations
This playbook offers authentic and easily implementable strategies to help instructors to care for their students and ensure their success in the classroom and beyond.
Optimizing High-Quality Digital Learning Experiences: A Playbook for Faculty
By integrating teaching and design principles, this guide assists faculty in positively impacting student learning, especially for students who are minoritized because of race, gender, disability, or socioeconomic status.
Getting Started with Equity: A Guide for Academic Department Leaders
Getting Started With Equity: A Guide for Academic Department Leaders has a very specific purpose, which is to serve as a first step for department chairs to develop and curate an educational environment that is simultaneously justice-centered and equity-advancing.
Research Review: Educational Technologies and Their Impact on Student Success for Racial and Ethnic Groups of Interest
The purpose of the review is to identify institutional, instructional, and learning practices mediated by educational technologies that positively influence the success of certain racial and ethnic groups of American students.
Planning for a Blended Future
This guide moves beyond getting started with blended learning to help educators realize the best of online and onsite instruction and implement research-driven techniques to positively influence student outcomes.
Student Leaders Speak 2021
Student Leaders Speak documents a national snapshot of diverse college students, including many who are first-generation as they reflect on their lives, their learning, their digital experiences, their challenges, their setbacks and their triumphs.
Success for All Teaching Strategies
In this webinar, learn simple teaching strategies to help students take charge of their learning and ensure all students master content.
Designing with Equity and Engagement at the Forefront
Expert insight and tips on designing online courses with equity and engagement at the forefront.
A Course Redesign Project: Personalized Adaptive Learning and OER Content
Instructors share their experiences in redesigning Elementary Spanish through a university initiative focused on increasing student success in gateway courses.
Every Learner Everywhere, Any Place, Any Time?
In this session we address key learnings about instructional practices and student learning outcomes, usage of digital tools and impact on faculty time, and share key challenges we must continue to confront as well as the strategies faculty and institutions are deploying to better ensure that every learner everywhere is able to learn.
Improving Critical Courses Using Digital Learning & Evidence-based Pedagogy
This guide features numerous links to resources academic administrators can draw from to effectively support a continuously improved teaching and learning environment that is sustainable for years to come.
Ask an Expert Live Q&A: What Faculty Need to Know
In this live Q&A panel, participants get answers to their remote teaching questions.
Time for Class: COVID-19 Edition
Three reports in a series designed to understand the ongoing impact of COVID-19 on teaching and learning in higher ed.
Transform Engagement: Interaction and Online Course Design
Rich media tools and thoughtful student-student, student-teacher, and student-content interactions can be powerful tools in online course design that inform “how we teach” and underpin successful use of technology in the online learning environment.
Teaching in a Time of Covid: What Makes a Difference
Insights on teaching in a time of Covid from Digital Promise’s Survey of Student Perceptions of Remote Teaching and Learning in May 2020.
Creative Strategies for Equitable Engagement in Online Classes
Principles and practices for cultivating an equitable and engaging virtual learning environment.
Centering Identity as a Cognitive Tool
A brief exploration on how faculty can position cultural knowledge and centering identity as a cognitive tool.
Beyond Design Thinking: New Tools to Redesign Learning for Racial Justice and Equity
An overview of design principles and tools to apply reflective approaches to any course to redesign learning for racial justice and equity.
WCET Webcast: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Digital Learning
Panel discussion of equitable teaching practices and digital learning that foster student-centered learning and cultivate a culture of inclusion.
Case Study: Portland State University
Combining active learning with adaptive courseware leads to a statistically significant reduction of DFW grades in foundational courses.
Case Study: Oregon State University
Stakeholder engagement and close collaboration important to the adaptive courseware implementation process.
Case Study: Colorado State University
A case study at Colorado State University (CSU), found the use of active learning and adaptive courseware, along with an intentional faculty development program, are key in the implementation of adaptive courseware.
Student Speak: Equity Reality From Students Of Color, Low-Income, and First-Generation Students
How advances in digital courseware paired with evidence-based, equity-first, innovative teaching can better serve today’s students.
DETA Research Toolkit 2.0
The DETA Research Toolkit 2.0 provides resources and tools to move research beyond the traditional paradigms and to explore innovative methodologies.
Adaptive Courseware Implementation Guide
This extensive resource will provide you with practical strategies and resources to implement adaptive courseware with an equity-minded and student-centered approach.
Adaptive Learning in Science Courses
Faculty discuss adaptive learning in science and how tools and practices can transform courses to increase student success.
Case Study: Biology at Medgar Evers College
This case study looks at how active learning and learning analytics can improve student success in biology courses.
Case Study: Elementary Spanish at the University of Central Florida
This case study on elementary Spanish looks at how to customize a course for a students by involving them in review and updates.
Adopting Adaptive Learning: Pedagogies and Practices
Faculty discuss how they’ve brought adaptive learning into their courses, and how it has altered teaching and learning for them and their students.
Case Study: Biology at Kingsborough Community College
This case study looks at how biology students can make test bank questions relevant by co-writing them
Case Study: College Algebra at Arizona State University
This case study looks at removing barriers and increasing student success in college algebra.
Case Study: Calculus I at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
This case study looks at how Calculus faculty are improving student success through multi-section coordination.
Case Study: Economics at Cuyahoga Community College
This case study looks at how one professor is increasing Course Success in economics through Student Engagement and Active Learning.
Case Study: First Year Writing at the University of Mississippi
This resource provides suggestions for breaking down those barriers to international students in online learning.
Adopting Adaptive Learning: College Perspectives
Faculty and staff from various ATD colleges share their experiences implementing adaptive learning at their colleges
Case Study: University of Louisville
This case study from the University of Louisville demonstrates their approach to leveraging adaptive courseware to improve course design.
Learning Analytics Strategy Toolkit
For all students to have an equal opportunity to succeed, instructors must personalize learning rather than teach to a fictional average student. Learning analytics has the potential to assist instructors …
Case Study: Georgia State University
This case study from Georgia State University demonstrates their approach to scaling adaptive courseware and the effective use of analytics.
Case Study: Arizona State University
In this case study, Arizona State University shares the progress of their adaptive courseware implementation.
ASU Remote 2020: Creating a Dynamic Learning Environment Online by Leveraging Technology
In this webinar, faculty discuss a variety of teaching and learning technologies, including Lumen Learning’s Waymaker, Calendly, and Portfolium.
Suddenly Online: National Undergraduate Survey
This report describes results from Digital Promise’s national, random-sample survey of more than 1,000 college students whose coursework moved suddenly from in-person to completely online
Case Study: University of Mississippi
This case study looks at faculty support and buy-in and draws on valuable insights from student focus groups.
The Equity Imperative and Social Justice
Barbara Means of Digital Promise presents findings from a survey of students learning remotely and offers solutions for bridging the digital divide at the University of the District of Columbia.
A Team-Based Approach to Redesigning Developmental Math Courses at Oregon State University
Faculty share how they coordinated the redesign of their developmental math courses using adaptive learning courseware to successfully improve course Drop/Fail/Withdrawal rates.
Advice for Students and Peers in the Midst of an Unknown Fall 2020
This webinar conversation highlights how students can navigate an unknown fall academic year and how administration can support students.
Case Study: Northern Arizona University
This case study from Northern Arizona University demonstrates the increase in student success that can result from the implementation of adaptive courseware.
Every Learner Everywhere & Lighthouse Institutions: First-Year Experiences
The report Every Learner Everywhere & Lighthouse Institutions shares first-year experiences of 2- and 4-year colleges piloting new versions of gateway courses incorporating adaptive learning.
Digital Learning Innovation Trends
This analysis identified seven major and three secondary trends in digital learning innovation. The goal of adaptive learning and OER implementations is to advance institutional efforts in providing access and quality while improving student success.
Scaling Adaptive Courseware for Student Success
In this webinar, faculty share their experiences at scaling adaptive courseware, reducing section variability, and supporting the implementation of adaptive courseware through Centers for Teaching & Learning.
Strategies for Effective Executive Sponsorship of Adaptive Courseware Initiatives
Academic leaders share their experiences working on the adoption and deployment of adaptive courseware initiatives and digital learning resources at their institutions.
The New Learning Compact
The New Learning Compact Framework is a cohesive resource that includes: Core Values, Core Principles, Inquiry Questions for Self-assessment and Planning, and Guidelines for Implementation and Evaluation.
Exploring Student Experiences with Adaptive Learning Courseware
In this webinar, faculty share how student experiences and feedback has improved their overall use of adaptive courseware.
Selecting and Evaluating Adaptive Courseware
In this webinar, faculty discuss the resources needed for a successful implementation of adaptive courseware and the importance of the relationship with a courseware vendor.
Courseware Selection Evaluation Rubric
A courseware selection rubric for evaluating courseware products during the adaptive courseware selection process.
Sample Syllabus Statement for Students
This is a sample syllabus statement to introduce the adaptive courseware component of your course to students.
Adaptive Courseware in Biology
This brief provides an overview of the current research on the effectiveness of adaptive courseware broadly and in the discipline of Biology.
Adaptive Courseware in Chemistry
This brief provides an overview of the current research on the effectiveness of adaptive courseware broadly and in the discipline of Chemistry.
Digital Learning ROI Resources
The Digital Learning ROI Resources are a set of issue briefs and case studies designed to help postsecondary institutions develop a comprehensive approach to measuring return on investment (ROI).