New technology is transforming the art of teaching. It is reducing administrative burden and enabling teachers to orchestrate activities more effectively and coach individual students with a precise attention to their needs.

In mastery-based learning, advanced students can progress through material at their own pace and remain engaged by pursuing more challenging work. The richer the content within the learning system, the more material a student can explore if he advances at a swifter pace than the others in his cohort. In this sense, the standards for such students are not low at all–they stretch to help each student maximize potential.

Created by Knewton and Column Five Media College preparedness is a hot topic today among teachers and education administrators. Its no wonder: one-third of today’s college students require remediation; of those students, about half will never receive a college degree. These statistics have serious ramifications for the future: students’ college and career readiness is an...

Much has been made in edtech circles of the possibility of powering digital learning content that embraces different learning styles. But before any learning program can adapt to a user’s learning style, preferences, and activity on the system, it must be modular—that is, broken into chunks, the smaller the better–that can be recombined into courses...