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Joliet Junior College is a community college in Illinois that serves more than 35,000 diverse students. Approximately 65-70% of incoming students are freshmen, many...
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To realize the true potential of digital learning, we must first change the software architecture at the heart of the education ecosystem. In technology, the only thing constant is change. While technology itself is changing rapidly — just consider the computing power of the average smartphone compared to a desktop 20 years ago — so, too, are user expectations. But...
Continue ReadingJoliet Junior College is a community college in Illinois that serves more than 35,000 diverse students. Approximately 65-70% of incoming students are freshmen, many...
Improving student results in introductory science courses is a global priority, as our economy continues leaning on a shortage of STEM-related college graduates. In...
Online learning initiatives often fail to engage and teach learners because they are passive in nature — reading PDFs, flipping through slides, listening to...
A Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is a unique opportunity for educators. They can make information more accessible and scale their teaching to hundreds...
Every term, California State University, East Bay (CSUEB) intakes a large class of transfer students from community colleges and other universities. Recognizing how difficult...
In my first year studying Industrial Design at University, we were given a cautionary tale about the cost of not understanding who we were...
In engineering universities around the world, there has traditionally been a high student failure rate in foundational courses such as Engineering Mechanics. The academics...
There’s perhaps no field more dependent on learning by doing than Medicine. After their first couple years of study, medical students progress to clinical...
Since our initial work with the school of medical sciences (SOMS) at UNSW Australia, the use of Smart Sparrow’s Adaptive eLearning Platform (AeLP) has...
At Smart Sparrow, we have spent over a decade working closely with hundreds of academics and educators to understand how we can help them...
Each year thousands of candidates enroll in The Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (“CA ANZ”) courses all around the world. Candidates...
With 20% of Australians over 80 affected by dementia and approximately 1 in 20 older people being the target of financial abuse, the finance...
What happens when a combination of budgetary limitations, equipment cost, and a lack of access to supervisory staff mean you can no longer offer...
We’re excited to announce the release of a key improvement in the Authoring Tool, a more intuitive and compelling way to think about authoring...
In August, we announced the launch of Smart Sparrow 2.0 – an improved and updated version of our Adaptive eLearning Platform. Our designers and...