Using Online Courseware to Create a Personalized Learning Experience

Online courseware is increasingly attractive to colleges and universities that are looking for innovative ways to address the challenges of closing the degree attainment gap, particularly for first-generation, low-income students.

However, courseware may also seem intimidating to instructors and institutions accustomed to traditional methods of classroom teaching. They may believe it minimizes the instructor’s role.

Innovative new programs, however, are building on the twelve years of research at the Online Learning Initiative which established that by coupling effective learning practices with predictive analytics and instructional design, online courseware can play a part in creating highly effective and personalized online learning experiences. This does require the thoughtful design of online courseware and of the courses that use it.

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