Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, and Snapwiz, a US-based company that specialises in adaptive and personalised learning solutions, have announced the launch of WileyPLUS with ORION. This is projected as the initial offering to come out of a new partnership aimed at giving students highly personalised experiences that improve learning outcomes and go further to creating adaptive, collaborative and interactive learning spaces.
The first in a suite of new learning products, WileyPLUS with ORION integrates Snapwiz's adaptive learning engine with WileyPLUS, a research-based online learning environment, with learning, practice, and assessment capabilities. The aim is to enable each learner's experience to be uniquely adapted to his or her unique strengths and needs. WileyPLUS is already offered with more than 300 Wiley titles, and is used by over 2 million users in more than 20 countries.
Launching this summer for use in fall 2013, WileyPLUS with ORION will be included at no extra cost to students using WileyPLUS across some of Wiley's titles in disciplines such as Introduction to Business, Introduction to Psychology, Financial Accounting and Anatomy and Physiology.
Students begin by taking a quick, chapter-level diagnostic to determine their baseline proficiency. Based on the results of their diagnostic and ongoing practice, WileyPLUS with ORION will present students with questions appropriate for their current level of understanding, and will continuously adapt to each student, helping them build their proficiency.
WileyPLUS with ORION delivers individualised notifications and reports to help guide students in using their time most effectively. All content is tied to a specific learning objective and each interaction is tracked, measured and used to help improve productivity, support retention and lead to greater student confidence. Instructors have access to dashboard reporting on student/class usage and overall class proficiency, including detailed views of productivity and metacognition. The questions used for the adaptive practice are numerous and are not found in the WileyPLUS assignment area.
