McGraw-Hill Education, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., US, has announced that LearnSmart has surpassed one million student users since the product launched in fall 2009. The announcement was made at the 2012 EDUCAUSE conference being held from November 6-9 in Denver.
In 2012, adaptive learning became one of the most important and exciting trends in education technology, and in that year McGraw-Hill Education cemented its status as the adaptive learning leader, celebrating a number of milestones for McGraw-Hill LearnSmart™ – the company's industry-leading adaptive study tool – as it helped colleges and instructors improve student performance.
At the conference, McGraw-Hill Education is showcasing LearnSmart and previewing how it is introducing the adaptive technology behind LearnSmart to other areas of the course lifecycle where students are likely to benefit from a more personalised learning experience.
McGraw-Hill Education was one of the first learning companies to enter the adaptive learning arena with the introduction of the LearnSmart personal digital tutor in 2009. LearnSmart continuously assesses students' knowledge on a given subject and delivers highly personalised recommendations to create a study path that meets students' individual learning needs. The milestone of one million student users bears special significance for LearnSmart - as students answer more questions within LearnSmart, the system becomes more familiar with student learning patterns and becomes better able to assess each student's knowledge and skills to provide personalized study recommendations.
McGraw-Hill Education's new adaptive learning solutions, to be previewed at EDUCAUSE, combine with LearnSmart to provide a more comprehensive adaptive and personalised approach to the entire learning experience. The new solutions will serve McGraw-Hill Education's larger goal of improving student performance by ensuring that students are knowledgeable and confident about the baseline concepts and information they need to succeed prior to starting higher-level courses, as well as by enabling meaningful scientific exploration and learning within a photo-realistic virtual lab environment.
McGraw-Hill Education continues to explore new and expanded distribution models to increase student access to LearnSmart.
