GMAT Test Prep: A User's Guide Aug 12, 2009
Using adaptive learning software and live video, Knewton delivers a full-length online course to students ... A big differentiator: Knewton's adaptive learning software, which customizes content to reflect each student's progress, delivering what the company calls a "supercharged" test-prep experience ... "By going online, Knewton can deliver the industry's very best teachers anywhere, anytime. And Knewton's adaptive learning engine personalizes your experience in a way that old-school test prep... (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Computer Learning, Electrical Stimulation Offer Hope For Paralyzed Mar 25, 2009
Dixon and his graduate students are developing methods aimed at improving that model using techniques of adaptive learning, or giving a computer the ability to learn from a patient s actions and reactions and adjust its muscular stimulation accordingly. One of their main tools: a standard leg lift, or leg extension, exercise machine modified with electrical pads and sensors, and networked with a computer. (Science Daily)
Study: Schools fall short on special education funding Feb 17, 2009
Augenblick, Palaich and Associates of Denver conducted the study for the Education Law Center, Disability Rights Network and the Arc of Pennsylvania, an advocacy organization for people with disabilities. com is a free automated information organization program. (Somerset Daily American, PA)
Industry Veteran Monty Hamilton Selected as CEO of Rural Sourcing Feb 10, 2009
He also contributes to his community, where he is the past president of the board of directors for the Adaptive Learning Center, a school designed to meet the unique challenges of special needs children from birth to age six. Mr. Hamilton holds an M.B.A. from the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University and a B.S. in business from Millsaps College. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
