Today, the predominant model of Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) is the traditional passive learning digitized, with the average course completion rate of less than 10%.
There is no reason why education should be confined to the passive learning model with the current state of technology. Personalization, enhanced tutoring, interactivity, and learning by doing should be readily available.
Alemira has set out to implement active learning to transform passive information consumption into high-engagement knowledge discovery.
Traditionally, content blocks are mostly static — text, video, assessments — they are made once for the course and never change.
Alemira uses an active approach to content blocks.
Helps learners conduct simulated experiments. A lab is recorded by an instructor to show the steps of system state changes. The lab is generated from the recorded instructor input that results in state changes. To play the lab, the system generates a semantically similar but syntactically different version of the lab.
Replacing multiple-choice quizzes. The generated lab creates an assessment script that verifies that the learner achieves the desired system state at the end of each step of the lab.
Alemira collects data during both instruction events and assessment events that happen within any content block. The collected data is used to improve the course both in the instruction and assessment domains.
Real-time data collection is used for the intelligent tutor system to operate. The intelligent tutor system provides real-time feedback to the learner as they go through blocks of learning content.
Alemira also uses the simulated learner approach, which is an AI agent simulating the gradual acquisition of knowledge and skills of a human learner. The simulated learner approach removes the traditional gap between a student going through a course — which can take a semester — and analyzing the results for improvement areas.
Active Tutor is a virtual tutor capable of providing real-time feedback to the learner.
Currently, the prevalent approach to solving problems is a multiple-choice quiz or simply submitting a free-form text for assessment. This approach leaves the instructor with no visibility into how a learner comes to the solution (quiz), or the assessment requires a human.
Alemira uses an active approach to authoring.
Active Theater can enact entire scenes that can be used for behavioral trainings — compliance, security, anti-harassment, sales, etc. — that require the learner to provide feedback to or participate in such scenes.
Active Atelier — the ability to create a course or training not from scratch but from a pool of precreated templates. The resulting courses and trainings can be further customized and polished by the instructor and delivered to the learners.
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