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Tuesday, September 8, 2015
ASU Global Freshman Academy diverse platforms designed to enhance online learning experience - Arizona State University
The Global Freshman Academy is unique in many ways — allowing students to take classes before deciding whether to pay for the credit, charging only $200 per class credit and accepting students without requiring SATs or a transcript. The new program has another innovation as well: It uses a technology that’s so personalized every student learns the class material a different way. The method comes through a partnership with a Silicon Valley company that provided software that “learns” each student’s knowledge level and presents new lessons and review material at the exact time that the brain is most receptive to them.
https://asunews.asu.edu/20150831-diverse-platforms-online-success