The Conversation
“In higher education, we’ve been talking about “e-learning” for years. But, in practice, we have mostly been teaching in the same way just through different mediums; that is, delivering one-way lectures online, posting digital lecture notes and occasionally “innovating” with quizzes. Instead of students passively learning from a lecturer, imagine immersive online “serious” games where students can learn through practice.
Virtual patients now allow medical students at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) to develop diagnostic and clinical skills through online scenarios. They can learn from their mistakes with no adverse consequences for real life patients and without the need to be at the university.
This is the kind of big leap in higher education that “adaptive e-learning” can provide.”
