The post with this title has been recently published in EdSurge
I have analyzed it and distilled 12 key points of the post. Then I tried them on to check if our Adaptive Learning Authoring Platform CLARITY is right and provided my comments (in parentheses) for your consideration.
1) do not adopt a narrow and outdated educational model. (That is very important. We use a general and innovative model of the educational process)
2) do not define your Objectives only as facts, techniques, and procedures to be delivered and explained by instruction and then practiced to mastery. (Actually, it is up to our authors, they are free to define quite different kind of Objectives)
3) to not engineer out the Serendipity and curiosity (We do not even try, why? Use the blended learning principles)
4) do not naïvely develop and naïvely apply algorithms (We are not so naïve to do so 🙂
5) do not use wrong kind of learning tasks (It is up to our authors, they know right tasks to match their objectives)
6) do not view education in terms of “content” to be covered, acquired, mastered but as an experience. (Absolutely agreed! Instead of “content” we use an Activity, which covers “experience” as well)
7) do not apply your algorithms poorly (Yes, that happens often. We provide Quality Assurance)
8) use real world mathematical problems to teach (Yes, why not? Use blended learning, if you cannot do it in e-learning settings)
9) teach rich and powerful set of general metacognitive skills (Yes, why not? Define your Objectives correspondingly)
10) do not focus on one particular formula, method, a single answer, with “right” or “wrong” the only possible outcomes (Yes, it is a poor thing. We provide more options for our course authors)
11) focus on the valuable 21st century skills of holistic thinking and creative problem solving (Yes, we support it in our platform)
12) Students should be able to explore problems on their own until they discover the solution. (Yes, why not? It is not prohibited in Adaptive Learning. Use blended learning principles).
So, looks like our CLARITY platform could be blessed by the post authors. We knew it is right, it allows making right adaptive courses! http://www.itutorsoft.com
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