Margaret, much of the discussion in ed - tech these days is
about adaptive software and personalized learning.
Not exact matches
When education investors talk
about so - called
adaptive learning, in which a computer tailors instructional
software personally for each student, the name Knewton invariably surfaces.
A study of 2,140 6th graders using Thinking Reader, a
software program designed to improve reading comprehension by asking students computer -
adaptive questions
about young adult novels, found no effects on reading comprehension (Drummond et al., 2011).
Back in September we ran a a story in the Insider
about the UK
software house Slicedbread and their recent deal with UK top - 50 law firm Keoghs that saw the implementation of an
adaptive case management system (based on their shared platform) to replace a traditional DMS + case management
software installation.