Bror's Blog

"Learning engineering" making its way in the world

I recently (re)stumbled across an interesting article in EdSurge about using educational impact to evaluate ed-tech companies and services. It seems an obvious thing, but as the article points out, it's not so simple to do. It reminded me of a range of efforts that are now popping up to assist us all with “learning engineering” work – applying good learning science and evidence-gathering at scale.

"I've got one word for you – Adaptivity." - Adapted from The Graduate (with ed-tech, could he have?)

I came across a couple of items talking about adaptivity, technology, and learning recently, and it got me thinking about this latest buzzword for learning improvement. It seems odd to question the idea that it is beneficial to adapt a learning environment to learners, yet a lot of things have to go right for any change in learning environments at scale to “work better.”