Brightspace LeaP is an adaptive learning engine that personalizes the learning experience by providing the right content and the right questions at the right time. By checking what learners already know and automatically recommending new content to fill knowledge gaps, Brightspace LeaP creates individualized learning paths to help each learner succeed in their own way. (Information provided by Brightspace LeaP.)
For more information, please visit the LeaP website and view the recorded demo.
The two-day Adaptive Learning Open House on May 9 and 10 will conclude with a luncheon panel discussion on Tuesday, from noon-1:45 in the MU Horizon Room. Please register to ensure a lunch will be available for you.
The panel will feature Phil Hill, co-publisher of the e-Literate blog, co-producer of e-Literate TV, and Partner in Mindwires Consulting, as well as Dr. Kathy Becker-Blease from OSU’s School of Psychological Sciences.
Phil is Co-Publisher of the e-Literate blog, Co-Producer of e-Literate TV, and Partner at MindWires Consulting. As a market analyst, Phil has analyzed the growth of technology-enabled change for educational institutions, uncovering and describing the major trends and implications for the broader market. His unique graphics and visual presentations have been widely used in the industry. As an independent consultant, Phil helps educational institutions, technology and content vendors, and policy makers as they consider and implement new initiatives.
Phil’s collegiate clients have included Western Governors University, California Community College System, Iowa State University, Bournemouth University, Pearson Education, Coursera, and others. His corporate clients have included Pearson, Lumen Learning, Authess, Acrobatiq, Coursera, and Cisco.
Previously Phil was an independent consultant through HBO Systems and Delta Initiative. In addition to e-Literate, Phil has also written for EDUCAUSE Review, Inside Higher Ed, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Washington Post, and the LA Times. He has been interviewed and quoted at National Public Radio, Inside Higher Ed, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Buzzfeed Education, the New York Times, and Washington Business Journal.
Read Phil’s Educause article, co-written with Michael Feldstien, Personalized Learning: What it Reall Is and Why It Really Matters.
Kathy Becker-Blease is an assistant professor in the School of Psychological Science at OSU. Dr. Becker-Blease developed and evaluated a hybrid version of Introductory Psychology using an adaptive learning tool, and regularly teaches traditional Introductory Psychology sections with the same adaptive learning tool. Along with the graduate and undergraduate members of her research lab, she has conducted research on rural student success, scientific literacy for health information, a low-cost mindset intervention for large classes, and an analysis of how students use adaptive quizzing in Introductory Psychology (Becker-Blease & Bostwick, 2016). She is Co-PI of a multi-site, NSF-funded study of ways to improve scientific literacy in Introductory Psychology classes, and an OSU Ecampus Research Fellow working on a similar version for Ecampus sections.
The luncheon panel discussion will conclude two days of exploration and discovery about adaptive and personalized learning platforms. The discussion will be moderated by Lois Brooks, Vice Provost for Information Services and Chief Information Officer, Dave King, Associate Provost, Outreach and Engagement, and Susana Rivera-Mills, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies. Please register and attend. Your feedback is needed as we consider these questions:
View the detailed schedule of the two-day Adaptive Learning Open House.
OverviewPlease join us for the Adaptive Learning Open House on May 9 and 10 in the Memorial Union Horizon Room. Join colleagues to learn more about adaptive and personalized learning tools and to explore the possibilities for teaching and learning at OSU. Register today.
Note that in-person attendance is strongly recommended. For those working remotely, the event will be live-streamed and recorded.
OSU leadership will welcome the adaptive learning providers who are joining us for this event.
Similar to a conference vendor area, the OSU community is invited to visit individual adaptive and personalized learning providers at tables to engage in one-on-one conversations, see the adaptive learning platforms close-up, pick up business cards and literature, and ask questions.
Please join us for a luncheon panel discussion. (Virtual attendance is also possible; the luncheon discussion will be streamed and comments/questions from virtual attendees will be facilitated.) Participating in the panel will be the following:
Register today and be part of the conversation. We look forward to this exploration and discussion!
Adaptive Learning Open HouseSave the date! Mark your calendars for the upcoming Adaptive Learning Open House, May 9 and 10, in the MU Horizon Room.
Leading providers of adaptive and personalized learning platforms have been invited to campus for an Adaptive Learning Open House on May 9 and 10 in the MU Horizon Room. The detailed schedule is being finalized, but please mark your calendars to save these dates. You’ll have opportunities to see provider demos, talk one-on-one with providers, and attend a luncheon and panel discussion about what the future might hold for adaptive learning at OSU.
What is Adaptive and Personalized Learning?
Basically, adaptive learning providers offer tools that develop personalized learning paths intended to help students learn and master course material. Those pathways are determined based on how students interact with digital courseware and adjust to student needs as they work through the content. Some platforms come with content-rich courseware, others come with starter content and the capability to add more, and others are platform-only, allowing instructors to create personalized learning paths entirely with their own course materials. Educause’s 7 Things You Should Know about Personalized Learning is a helpful introductory resource.
What is the purpose of the Adaptive Learning Open House at OSU?
In short, to learn more about adaptive and personalized learning tools and to explore the possibilities for teaching and learning at OSU. Your feedback is needed as we consider these questions:
A more detailed schedule will be distributed in the coming weeks. Stay tuned for more details to come. Questions? Email shannon.riggs@oregonstate.edu.
Lois Brooks, Vice Provost for Information Services and Chief Information Officer
Dave King, Associate Provost, Outreach and Engagement
Susana Rivera-Mills, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies
In February 2016, the IS Instructional Governance Committee convened a task force to establish a series of adaptive and personalized learning platform demonstrations on campus during spring term, 2016. Building on the momentum of a successful migration to Canvas and efforts to establish a new learning ecosystem called Learn@OregonState, the intent is to provide faculty with an opportunity to explore and review adaptive learning options. For an introduction, check out ELI’s 7 Things You Should Know About Personalized Learning.
We are interested in learning more about how an adaptive and personalized learning platform or platforms may help us accomplish the following, among other goals:
The task force is in the process of identifying and inviting providers to come to campus and planning the logistics of the event, scheduled for May 9 and 10. If you have questions, please contact Shannon Riggs at shannon.riggs@oregonstate.edu.
Shannon Riggs, Robin Pappas, Courtney Everson, Alex Aljets, Chrysanthemum Hayes, Erica Curry, Victor Yee, Stefanie Buck, Mike Bailey, and Sara Thompson
Dave King, Lois Brooks, David Barber, Robin Pappas, John Greydanus, Susie Brubaker-Cole, Cheryl Middleton, Susana Rivera-Mills, Bill Loges, Rebecca Mathern, and Faye Chadwell
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