Using adaptive learning, peer learning and co-creation in Higher Education

About this Masterclass

Educators continue to face significant challenges in providing high quality, post-secondary instruction in large classes. A significant portion of these challenges may be categorised as either content-related or support-related. Content-related challenges mostly emerge from high levels of diversity in learners’ academic ability, and support-related challenges emerge from less direct and indirect contact time of the teaching staff with each leaner. These challenges often lead to the learners receiving less timely and helpful feedback and guidance from the teaching staff. The usage of recent advancements in educational technologies coupled with new methods of course delivery provides promising perspectives in addressing these issues. In particular, there is a growing body of knowledge that provides evidence that adaptive learning platforms can be leveraged in assisting with content-related challenges and peer learning and mentoring can be utilised in assisting with support-related challenges. Additionally, learning sciences provide a plethora of evidence that inviting learners to be more actively involved in their construction of knowledge, by facilitating learning across many of the higher-level objectives of the cognitive domain of Bloom’s taxonomy, improves learning and increases learner satisfaction.

Benefits of attending

This masterclass aims to introduce strategies and a platform called RiPPLE for employing adaptive learning, peer learning and co-creation in large classes, aiming to narrow the gap between these large bodies of research and effective approaches that instructors can easily employ in their courses.

Presenter

Dr Hassan Khosravi