Adaptive elearning is getting hot in education domain. Knewton and Smart Sparrow are some of the many companies riding on this wave and are attracting good funding and growth. For the uninitiated – adaptive elearning is adapting the learning material as per learner’s progress and needs. Which in plain English translates into dynamic learning paths as per learner’s progress, presenting content in instructional format which is most suitable for the learner, and providing feedback to the learner while he/she is navigating through the course basis her navigation patterns and assessment scores etc.
Business case or the pitch in education domain is – adaptive learning helps increase completion rates for students, which means lesser dropouts, which means higher revenues for educational institutes. When the content is consumed in digital format by the student, it also helps the publishers as the revenue becomes recurring – as unlike books, login to portal can’t be bought second hand or can’t be photocopied. With all the data that gets collated on the learning platform, it becomes difficult for any institute to move to a new platform – so there is a strong tie-in once the customer is in. So it’s a win-win all the way – for technology provider, educational institute, content provider, and the student as well.
Since we at G-Cube primarily work in corporate learning domain, I would like to evaluate applicability of adaptive learning in the same domain.
