Adaptive Learning for Faculty Development: Technology Considerations

One challenge of faculty development and training for online teaching is satisfying instructors with different levels of knowledge, skills, and experience. At our institution, we discovered that this challenge can be overcome by employing an adaptive learning strategy in our faculty development courses. Adaptive learning technologies assess an individual learner’s current knowledge so that they can “test out” of or skip past content and topics that they have already mastered and focus on areas they may not yet be familiar with.