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The Adaptive Learning project

project for UCLA professor

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About the
Courselets Project

Courselets.org is an adaptive learning project of professor Christopher Lee from UCLA. It is a system centered around the idea that wrong answers are the main source of learning improvement. The concept is proven by impressive results of Courselets usage in UCLA:

320% lower course dropping rates (1000% in the case of female audience)
50% higher exam scores

The current version of Courselets became an integral part of UCLA curriculum. Basically this product has shown how to make adaptive learning work.

Courselets project incorporates an interactive chat interface for answering target problems, API for smooth integration of courselets into eLearning solutions, and LTI-support.

The Challenge

THE Next Step For "Courselets"
At the starting point, Christopher had an MVP — a self-built prototype that used textual dialogues and worked with the learner’s misconceptions (reasons of making wrong answers). Based on received feedback on misconceptions, system would make the assumptions regarding which material the student needs to study to eliminate knowledge gaps.
The main task was to improve the platform, make it available globally and compatible with any device, LMS and even other applications.

Solutions

The New Design: Main Page

We formed a team of UX and UI designers and developers to repurpose the overall Courselets design
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"Courselets" Integrability

We’ve changed the whole Courselets system so it became standardized according to LTI specifications. This means that Courselets can be embedded in any LTI-supporting software like LMS (Moodle, Open edX) or even Facebook messenger

The New UX and UI: Practical Exercises

Practical exercises are implemented as a conversation as well
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The New UX and UI: Learning Experience

The overall learning process is implemented as an interactive chat, which works by the principles of the Socratic dialogue
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API And Third Party Authentication

API
We have completed the code refactoring of Courselets and developed the API that provides a smooth and fast data flow between almost any application
Third party authentication and SSO
We implemented multiple Social Logins and Single Sign-On feature

Results

"Courselets" Project Development Highlights
We delivered the product on time and within budget, providing all the features requested by the customer:
Wide cross-platform accessibility capabilities using 3rd party auth and SSO
Complete UX/UI overhaul in a form of Socratic dialogue
LTI for simple interaction into LMS’s like Open edX and Moodle
API for smooth integration with various software
Raccoon Gang are currently working on further evolution of the Courselets project, including:

GitHub-like system of course component sharing to improve the author’s experience and collaboration capabilities (each time a student has a question/misconception that did not fall into any of predefined error models, the issue-tracking system automatically forms an issue.

Each issue has the counter of occurrences and any time the problem repeats, the counter is increased by 1, automatically pushing the most often occurring problems to the top)

Ability to add varying content and show it to predefined groups of learners in order to gather differing measurable feedback (content A/B testing)

Improved interactions (drawn answers in addition to textual
and numeric options)

Better UI for instructors

Raccoon Gang are currently working on further evolution of the Courselets project, including:

Ability to add varying content and show it to predefined groups of learners in order to gather differing measurable feedback (content A/B testing)

GitHub-like system of course component sharing to improve the author’s experience and collaboration capabilities (each time a student has a question/misconception that did not fall into any of predefined error models, the issue-tracking system automatically forms an issue.

Each issue has the counter of occurrences and any time the problem repeats, the counter is increased by 1, automatically pushing the most often occurring problems to the top)

Improved interactions (drawn answers in addition to textual
and numeric options)

Better UI for instructors

Raccoon Gang are currently working on further evolution of the Courselets project, including:

GitHub-like system of course component sharing to improve the author’s experience and collaboration capabilities (each time a student has a question/misconception that did not fall into any of predefined error models, the issue-tracking system automatically forms an issue.

Each issue has the counter of occurrences and any time the problem repeats, the counter is increased by 1, automatically pushing the most often occurring problems to the top)

Ability to add varying content and show it to predefined groups of learners in order to gather differing measurable feedback (content A/B testing)

Improved interactions (drawn answers in addition to textual
and numeric options)

Better UI for instructors

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