Education

Scaling Up With Adaptive Learning

Campus Technology: Last year, eight universities across the country embarked on a bold experiment to see if they can scale up the use of adaptive courseware to increase retention and graduation rates. With support from the Association of Public Land-grant Universities (APLU), these schools have set a target of using adaptive courseware for 15 to 20 percent of general education course enrollments between spring 2017 and fall 2019. APLU's Personalized Learning Consortium is overseeing the grant program, which is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The universities — Arizona State University, Colorado State University, Georgia State University, Northern Arizona University, Oregon State University, Portland State University, University of Louisville and the University of Mississippi — certainly have their work cut out for them. Tailoring a course to adaptive learning can be difficult, as we learned when Campus Technology interviewed faculty members involved in pilot implementations of the technology. Despite being encouraged by the results, those pioneers reported being exhausted by how much work is involved in retrofitting their courses to the adaptive platforms. So how will the APLU grantees tackle the task? We spoke with two executives participating in the grant program about their goals and the early challenges they see.

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