experiences from personalised learning (eng) - brad mcilquham - owd14

Personalization with Knewton

Director, Academic Platform Programs

November 2014

D. Bradley McIlquham

The internet does two things:

2.Data mining 1.Distribution

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Knewton’s mission is to bring personalized learning to the world.Our engine analyzes student activity to recommend the best content and evaluate progress & engagement by:

● modeling and analyzing how different students learn

● figuring out which materials and lessons are most effective

● empowering teachers with data about student progress

Across disciplines and grade levels

Personalization, behind the scenes

What the Knewton API provides

Recommendations provide underlying

insights on proficiency, engagement, and more to teachers, parents, and students.

Analytics Learning historiesallow students to start warm in new courses, drawing on previously demonstrated learning preferences and gaps.

guide each student to the right content to tackle next within the partner’s pool of recommendable content.

ExperienceAdaptive Learning

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Blended learning toolkit

Student profile dashboard

Partner Products

Partner Products

18% 78% 47% $12M+

in annual recovered tuition from retained students

increase in pass rate for developmental math

reduction in withdrawal rate fromdevelopmental math

Extensive, multi-year implementation across all first year math courses

overall pass rate for developmental math

Adaptivity improving student outcomes

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85%pass rate; taking Knewton increase a student’s chance of placing into first year math by 25%.

87%pass rate for the lowest-level developmental math course, an increase of 20 - 25% over previous years.

10%improvement in pre-versus post-test scores for students using Knewton versus other developmental math software.

Improving student outcomes

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Top 5 For-Profit

University

Data DrivenAdaptive Learning

Open platform for educationOur API partnerships vary by subject, grade level, centrality of adaptivity, and more. Knewton is flexible.

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Analytics for the publisher

Exhaustion

How much content are

students utilizing,

mapped to proficiency

achieved

Assessment

Quality

How well individual

questions assess

underlying topics

Instructional

Impact

How pieces of content

contribute to learning

Restructuring class time:

Lab time & space

Tutoring resources

Student grouping (proficiency, engagement, heterogeneous groups)

Creative projects

Inspiring discussion and mini lectures informed by analytics

Data-driven decisions

Data-driven decisions

Evaluating and creating new curriculae

Students completing course

Data-driven decisions

Planning lab space based on pacing for examsRethinking completion policies and linear milestones

Thank youbrad@knewton.com

@bmcilquham