dr dror ben-naim, smart sparrow

Smart  Sparrow  Disrup.ng  educa.on  with  intelligent  tutoring  technology  

Dr Dror Ben-Naim Founder, CEO

“The times, they are a changin” Bob Dylan

Personalize  and  Adap.ve  Learning    

Adap.ve  Learning    

We’ve  got  the  tools  

Personalize Learning at Scale

The  Personalized  Learning  Future    

Make  the  World  Smarter  

In 4 simple steps: ü  Empower educators to teach smarter ü  Optimize learning ü  So it’s easier to learn, and it takes less time ü  So you will want to learn more done

Smart  Sparrow  is  an  Adap.ve  eLearning  PlaBorm  that  lets  anyone  create  rich,  interac.ve  and  adap.ve  

courseware,  powered  by  learning  analy.cs    

Educa.on  is  Moving  online  What’s  missing?    

Analog   Digital    

Textbooks   eBooks  

Lectures     Videos  

Reading  Material   PDFs  

Lecture  notes   PPT  

Quiz   MCQ  

Exams   MCQ  +  proctoring  

Worksheets     ?  

Tutorials   ?  

Labs   ?  

Scenarios  (Case-­‐Base  teaching)   ?  

Microscopy  classes   ?  

Private  Lesson     ?  

…  

What’s missing? - a solution for supervised experiences, learning by-doing with adaptive feedback and teacher presence.

Solution: Intelligent Tutoring System

Challenges  of  Teaching  Online  

•  Students  are  not  geTng  the  feedback  they  need  

•  Educators  are  out  of  the  loop  

•  Teachers  need  access  to  learning  data  

•  Content  is  limited  and  not  engaging  

•  Very  Mul.ple  Choice  Quiz  focused    

Smart  Sparrow  MOOC/  Lecture  

•  Learning by doing •  Instant Adaptive feedback •  Adaptive learning path •  Teacher able to "adapt" content

“Give  us  a  mental  image”  

Be  Intelligent  and  Adap.ve  

Empower  the  Teacher  

Promote  Learning  By  

Doing  

Teach  Smarter  

               Focus  on  interac.ve        rich-­‐media,  simula.ve                                                                                  content    

Provide  adap.ve  feedback              Recommended  content                      Adapt  learning  to                                individual  students  

Teachers  should  have  control  –  they  need  tools  for  authoring,  managing  and  analysing  

Adap.ve  Tutorials  

Virtual  Labs  

Intelligent  Medical  Images  

Virtual  Pa.ents  

Smart  Sparrow  is  an  Adap.ve  eLearning  PlaBorm  that  let  anyone  to  create  rich,  interac.ve  and  adap.ve  

courseware,  powered  by  learning  analy.cs    

“out  of  the  box  analy.cs”  

Analy.cs  is  a  part  of  the  process  

Adap.ve  Mechanics  -­‐  Actual  Performance  

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12 12 # of Adaptive Tutorials

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Dramatic Reduction in Failure Rates: from 31% to 7% Saves UNSW $1m pa

*2009 data is missing as the course convenor was on sabbatical and the course ran by another lecturer with entirely different curriculum

•  The  disrup.on  is  here  

•  MOOCs  not  the  scorch  or  the  savior  of  higher  educa.on  

•  Ins.tu.ons  must  innovate  up  the  value  chain  

•  Adap.ve  and  personlize  learning  is  a  paradigm  shi[    

•  The  future  is  already  here  –  but  are  you?