Breaking the "Golden Handcuffs" That Bind Courses to Commercial Homework Platforms with ADAPT Open Homework and Assessment Platform
Overview
Archived session from the 2024 Arizona Regional OER Conference.
Session Title: Breaking the "Golden Handcuffs" That Bind Courses to Commercial Homework Platforms with ADAPT Open Homework and Assessment Platform.
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Session Abstract, Presenter(s), and Recording
Session Abstract
One of the principal limiting factors in large scale adoption of OER is the absence of comparable free or low-cost homework platforms to complement existing and developing OER textbooks. This action lab addresses the LibreTexts efforts to remove this barrier by building and expanding the open-source ADAPT homework system - a central component of the "LibreVerse" ecosystem of courseware technologies - to supplant existing for-profit commercial systems. ADAPT is designed as a centralized OER question bank (>190 k questions) that combines adaptive learning incorporating learning trees with culturally responsive pedagogy for advanced use. We will demonstrate how instructors can use ADAPT to augment existing and newly constructed OER textbooks with summative exercises and embed them in LMSs, LibreTexts textbooks, in a standalone web application, and in-class clickers. Discussions will demonstrate how the ADAPT empowers faculty to build and use existing questions in multiple modalities.
Presenter(s)
- Delmar Larsen, CEO LibreTexts
Recording