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Adaptive Learning Beyond STEM
Session Overview
This video was part of the July 2020 REMOTE: The Connected Faculty Summit
Instructors will share their experiences in redesigning the first-year sequence of a language course through a university initiative focused on increasing student success in gateway courses. Instructors eliminated the traditional textbook and publisher courseware and used only Open Educational Resource (OER) and self-authored materials employed in an Adaptive Learning program. Instructors focused on challenges, such as trials in the online delivery mode, students’ prior knowledge of subject matter, textbook and courseware fatigue, and DFW rates. Learn about the process, lessons learned, and strategies implemented to leverage the benefits of online, blended, adaptive, and active learning, while working toward program-wide implementation.
Speakers
Anne Prucha
Associate Instructor, University of Central Florida
Anne Prucha is a senior instructor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at University of Central Florida (UCF), where she teaches Spanish and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). She is currently involved in UCF’s Center for Distributed Learning Pegasus iLab Course Redesign Initiative, working with colleagues to incorporate adaptive learning and OER content into the first-year Spanish course sequence. Anne is also co-faculty director of the Journey Cuba study abroad program and has also directed study abroad programs in Spain and Nicaragua. She co-founded and currently co-directs the UCF-Hillcrest Foreign Language Club and is a frequent participant in UCF’s Faculty Center Summer Conference and its Student Consultants on Teaching (SCoT) project.
Kacie Tartt
Associate Instructor, University of Central Florida
Kacie Tartt is Associate Instructor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, where she teaches Spanish. She is co-faculty leader of the Journey Cuba study abroad program and faculty leader of Cuba: History, Culture, and Society during Summer A. At UCF she helped co-found and currently co-directs the UCF-Hillcrest Foreign Language Club in addition to organizing the weekly MLL Game Day. She also works hand-in-hand with CDL to further distance learning initiatives within the Spanish lower division at the university, most recently exploring Adaptive Learning methods and technology within her discipline.
