Presentation Type
Presentation
Full Description of the Session
High access institutions face a double challenge in needing to control prices while maintaining high quality learning opportunities. Pairing OER with an adaptive learning system serve both outcomes, but presents its own challenges. This session will describe the efforts at The American Women’s College to leverage the benefits of each technology at scale by eliminating barriers to adoption.
This session will introduce the mission, vision, and student demographics of The American Women’s College (TAWC) in order to provide context for a description of the college’s adoption of OER and adaptive technology. Benefits – lower prices for students, personalized learning experiences at scale, improved learning outcomes – will be weighed against challenges – lack of technical standards, need for new business models to evaluate the current return on investment. These challenges compound the baseline barriers to adoption for each technology on its own. The presentation will then turn to describing a variety of methods for overcoming these challenges – strategic partnerships, investigation of OER technical structure, etc. – that have facilitated the successful integration of OER and adaptive learning at TAWC. Future directions will also be shared with the hopes of eliciting cross-institutional collaboration.
Attendees will be engaged in a variety of ways. The session will begin with live polls to learn about the attendees and their prior knowledge/experience with OER and adaptive. A back-channel Twitter feed will be used to collect open-ended questions throughout. Time will be devoted at the midpoint and end of the presentation to address these questions.
Attendees with an intermediate or advanced knowledge of OER and adaptive will benefit most from this session.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/kbd6-5v56
Start Date
14-6-2017 1:20 PM
End Date
14-6-2017 1:50 PM
Pairing OER with Adaptive Learning to Support Non-traditional Learners: Promises, Unicorns, and Barriers
High access institutions face a double challenge in needing to control prices while maintaining high quality learning opportunities. Pairing OER with an adaptive learning system serve both outcomes, but presents its own challenges. This session will describe the efforts at The American Women’s College to leverage the benefits of each technology at scale by eliminating barriers to adoption.
This session will introduce the mission, vision, and student demographics of The American Women’s College (TAWC) in order to provide context for a description of the college’s adoption of OER and adaptive technology. Benefits – lower prices for students, personalized learning experiences at scale, improved learning outcomes – will be weighed against challenges – lack of technical standards, need for new business models to evaluate the current return on investment. These challenges compound the baseline barriers to adoption for each technology on its own. The presentation will then turn to describing a variety of methods for overcoming these challenges – strategic partnerships, investigation of OER technical structure, etc. – that have facilitated the successful integration of OER and adaptive learning at TAWC. Future directions will also be shared with the hopes of eliciting cross-institutional collaboration.
Attendees will be engaged in a variety of ways. The session will begin with live polls to learn about the attendees and their prior knowledge/experience with OER and adaptive. A back-channel Twitter feed will be used to collect open-ended questions throughout. Time will be devoted at the midpoint and end of the presentation to address these questions.
Attendees with an intermediate or advanced knowledge of OER and adaptive will benefit most from this session.