How Students Behave in Personalized Adaptive Courses

Colm Howlin

Principal Researcher

colm.howlin@realizeitlearning.com

@cp_h

https://slides.com/cphowlin/unc_dli

An Adaptive Learning Partnership

John Carroll 1963, Teachers College Record

Degree\,of\,Learning = f\left(\frac{Time\,Spent}{Time\,Needed}\right)

If Learning is fixed - Time Needed will vary

If Time is fixed - Learning will vary

Psychology

Intermediate and College Algebra

What are effective intervention strategies in a system with full or partial student agency?

How do we teach students to be successful self-regulated adaptive learners?

We have taken the approach of build it, give it to them, and they will figure it out.
Can we improve student outcomes by teaching them to self-regulated adaptive learners?
How do we strike a balance between self-regulated versus expert-assisted versus machine-guided learning?

Howlin, C. and Dziuban, C. (2019) Detecting Outlier Behaviors in Student Progress Trajectories Using a Repeated Fuzzy Clustering Approach. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Educational Data Mining
http://educationaldatamining.org/edm2019/proceedings/
Dziuban, C., Howlin, C., Johnson, C., & Moskal, P. (2017, December 18). An Adaptive Learning Partnership. EDUCAUSE Review: https://er.educause.edu/articles/2017/12/an-adaptive-learning-partnership
Dziuban, C., Howlin, C., Moskal, P., Johnson, C., Parker, L., & Campbell, M. (2018). Adaptive learning: A stabilizing influence across disciplines and universities. Online Learning, 22(3), 7-39. https://olj.onlinelearningconsortium.org/index.php/olj/article/view/1465
Dziuban, C., Howlin, C., Moskal, P., Johnson, C., Eid, M., Kmetz, B. (2019). Adaptive Learning: Context and Complexity. E-mentor, 5(77),
http://www.e-mentor.edu.pl/eng/article/index/number/77/id/1384