Adaptive Learning Opportunities provides an introduction to adaptive learning technologies as a way to create personal educational opportunities for students at a variety of stages across a range of areas of study. By design, adaptive educational systems present personalized educational experiences optimized for each individual learner. The book:
• Addresses formal and informal learning opportunities with the potential to be transformed at all levels: preK-12, post-secondary & adult;
• Focuses on well-developed concrete examples to show readers how key concepts can be put into practice;
• Documents specific instances of existing successful new learning opportunities;
• Emphasizes approaches, environments, and tools that promise to reduce the cost of learning.
A continuously updated website hosted by Columbia University’s EdLab will feature extended case studies, multimedia presentations, evolving information on the topic, and more.
Chapter 1 - Post-Industrial Personal Learning in View
Chapter 2 - The Long Quest for Adaptive Learning Experiences
Chapter 3- The Growth of Adaptive Technologies in Everyday Life
Chapter 4 - Learning Tasks and Perspectives on Making them Adaptive
Chapter 5 - The Learning Research Perspective
Chapter 6 - The Assessment Perspective
Chapter 7 - The Content Model Perspective
Chapter 8 - The Teaching Perspective
Chapter 9 - The Social Network Perspective
Chapter 10 - Adaptive Learning Opportunities in Action
Chapter 11 - Incorporating Adaptive Technologies into Current and Emerging
Educational Systems
Chapter 12 - Adaptive Learning Technologies and the Changing Shape of
Educational Research
Gary Natriello is the Ruth L. Gottesman Professor in Educational Research and Professor of Sociology and Education in the Department of Human Development at Teachers College, Columbia University. Professor Natriello directs the Gottesman Libraries and is the executive editor of the Teachers College Record. He is also a past editor of the American Educational Research Journal and a past-chair of the Publications Committee of the American Educational Research Association and currently serves on the AERA Books Publication Board.
