1.
Mike Byrne
Netex UK Country Manager
Agenda
• Introductions
• What is adaptive learning?
• Netex approach to adaptivity
• SmartContent
Rubén Míguez Pérez
EdTech Product Manager

2.
Our first adaptive learning environment

3.
What do we understand by adaptive learning?
“Adaptive learning is an education
technology that can respond to a
student's interactions in real-time by
automatically providing the student
with individual support.“
Kelly Blair.
Adaptive
Content
Adaptive
Assessment
Adaptive
Sequence

4.
The Hype Cycle for Education Are we ready for the “Slope of Enlightenment”?
HORIZON 2015 (K12)
Adaptive learning (2-3 years)
HORIZON 2016 (HighEd)
Adaptive learning (1-2 years)

5.
What are the main drawbacks of the adaptive tools in the market?
They are black-boxes for teachers and students.
Technology focused instead of teacher-oriented.
We should empower instructors not to replace them.
Disruption of the traditional classroom dynamics.
Lack of good data about the efficacy of this tools.

6.
What do we understand by adaptive learning?
“The greatest adaptive mechanism is the
classroom teacher. The data the tool
provides should be used to provoke
instructional changes in the classroom.”

7.
What do we understand by adaptive learning?
“The goal of adaptive tools should be to
review what students are working on
and where they are headed”

8.
What do we understand by adaptive learning?
“Adaptive learning tools that give choice
to students and teachers are powerful”

9.
The main goal of an adaptive learning tool
GIVE INFORMATION AND TOOLS TO THE INSTRUCTOR
FOR EASILY CHANGE CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION
BASED ON THE STUDENTS NEEDS.

10.
Smart Content
A new ecosystem of
digital services on top
of a publisher content!
Smart Content can include five
different layers of services on top
of a digital content.

11.
The power of the 5 layers
Embedded authoringEach layer can provide complementary
services to other layers:
Embedded authoring + Learning analytics:
Publishers can learn how their users build new contents
Collaboration + Embedded authoring:
Teachers can create new activities based on
videoconference.
Learning analytics
Collaboration
Gamification (2017)
Personalization (2017)

12.
Smart Content for Education
Instructor-led adaptive tool
Diversity Awareness
Real-time performance data
Guided training and personalized
assignments

13.
Smart Content for Corporate settings
Productivity tool for trainers
Skill gap detection
Real-time videoconference
Real-time collaboration among trainer
and peers

14.
HOW IT WORKS
INSTRUCTOR
LOGIN
LMS
UNIT 1
UNIT 2
UNIT 3
SMART
CONTENT
LTI LINK
STUDENT
LOGIN
Adding
content
Analytical
info
Collaboration
features
GRADES

15.
DEMO