什么是自适应学习(个性化学习)？

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到底什么是自适应学习？即使用计算机科学来提高教学质量，而现今大家的尝试还是在小范围探索中，且只是根据答题正确与否来为学生选择下一道题（即呈现问题1，答对了，则呈现问题2，答错了，则呈现问题3的思路。）
又提出了现今互联网时代，网络上的学习资料繁杂，电子书库也是越来越多，但如何有效的使用这些互联网资料却是越来越突出的问题。
接着开始了Knewton的安利文，不过想法还是很有借鉴意义的，总结如下：
自适应学习应该具备的特点：

• 学习内容动态可交互
• 不仅需要诊断学生已掌握的知识，还要能设计个性化的学习路径，让学生尽可能的增加学习效率
• 为教育工作者提供学生的学习诊断报告和相应的学习内容推荐计划

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If you’ve spent any time in the field of educational technology, you may have heard the term “adaptive learning,” or one of its many aliases: adaptive instruction, adaptive hypermedia, computer-based learning, intelligent tutoring systems, computer-based pedagogical agents…

If you’re like most people, however, the precise definition of the term(s) probably still eludes you. So the question remains: What is adaptive learning?

At the most basic level, adaptive learning is the notion that computers can improve educational outcomes. However, until recently, most adaptive learning approaches have failed to realize this promise. Early attempts were often small-scale, focusing on a limited number of students or area of interest. Most utilized systems with only the most basic kind of adaptivity (eg. “Present Question A—collect the answer—if correct, branch to Question B, if incorrect, branch to Question C.”)

Just as adaptive learning’s name evolved over time, however, so has its potential to revolutionize education.

In the past decade, many industries leveraged the Internet to improve themselves. Unfortunately, the education industry wasn’t one of them. Let’s face it: We’ve done a lousy job of harnessing technology to better educate our kids. And the educational content that has found its way to the Internet is scattered across millions of blogs, content portals, and e-book libraries—making it hard to find and effectively unusable.

With the help of new innovations in adaptive learning, however, this can finally change. Knewton’s adaptive learning platform will facilitate the tagging and organizing of all this educational material, deliver and assess learning items, and use data mining to deliver optimized learning content for each student each day. While there have been several successful adaptive learning environments for specific domains of knowledge (generally math), Knewton’s platform is unique in the breadth and scope of its approach.

Adaptive learning makes content dynamic and interactive, placing the student at the center of his or her individual learning experience. The platform monitors how the student interacts with the system and learns, leveraging the enormous quantities of data generated by a student’s online interactions with ordinary (textbook-like) and extraordinary (game- and social-media-like) content, with teachers and peers, and with the system itself. It assesses not only what a student knows now, but also determines what activities and interactions, developed by which providers, delivered in what sequence and medium, most greatly increase the possibility of that student’s academic success.

Fear of online and computer-based educational approaches often stems from a misguided belief that these approaches will reduce teacher-student face time. In fact, the opposite is true. The platform frees up classroom time, allowing teachers more time to engage students directly. Individualized student data allows for more meaningful teacher-student interactions.

Ultimately, the Knewton adaptive learning platform provides a current snapshot of the student, coupled with the diagnostic information and recommendations so critical to improvement, while there is still time to help. Forget end-of-lesson/chapter/term/year assessments that reveal deficiencies without providing information or opportunities to remediate. This information is presented while lessons are still underway—giving students and teachers the data they need to act and improve, immediately.

In about 18 months, Knewton expects to open up the platform—so that anyone can use it, for any type of content. It will be free for teachers and not-for-profits; only those who charge for their content will pay. This technology will soon power educational content all over the web—and change the way we educate our children and ourselves.

Ref：https://www.knewton.com/resources/blog/adaptive-learning/what-is-adaptive-learning/