WHY IT'S TIME TO UPDATE ELEARNING WITH ADAPTIVE LEARNING AND PERSONALIZATION – Performance Development Group

It's a Teaching Machine and it will dramatically change the way people learn in the future." You do not need a DeLorean with a flux capacitor to see how far Learning has come in the last seventy years. Let's travel back in time to the 1950s when cars had tail fins, sock hops were in full swing, and hanging out in malt shops was the Bee's knees. Surprisingly, the beginning of technology-assisted adaptive learning was also a product of the '50s. In 1954, BF Skinner came up with the idea of the "Teaching Machine" to accommodate the variable learning rates and attention spans of students.