How to Do Adaptive Learning

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. How to Do Adaptive Learning Right
Keith Devlin, Randy Weiner, EdSurge, 2016/07/05
Responding to Audrey Watters's examples of how things can go badly wrong with adaptive learning, Keith Devlin and Randy Weiner argue "Watters’ bleak future will only come to pass if the algorithms continue to be both naïvely developed and naïvely applied, and moreover, in the case of mathematics learning (the area we both work in) applied to the wrong kind of learning tasks." More...