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到底什麼是自適應學習？即使用電腦科學來提高教學質量，而現今大家的嘗試還是在小範圍探索中，且只是根據答題正確與否來為學生選擇下一道題（即呈現問題1，答對了，則呈現問題2，答錯了，則呈現問題3的思路。）
又提出了現今網際網路時代，網路上的學習資料繁雜，電子書庫也是越來越多，但如何有效的使用這些網際網路資料卻是越來越突出的問題。
接著開始了Knewton的安利文，不過想法還是很有借鑑意義的，總結如下：
自適應學習應該具備的特點：

• 學習內容動態可互動
• 不僅需要診斷學生已掌握的知識，還要能設計個性化的學習路徑，讓學生儘可能的增加學習效率
• 為教育工作者提供學生的學習診斷報告和相應的學習內容推薦計劃

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.