education founded 2010 headquarters sydney australia key people dror ben naim ceo founder shaowei ho co founder head of platform experience zack belinson co founder head of content services website smartsparrow.com smart sparrow is an ed tech education technology start up the commercialization of an adaptive learning technology incubated within the adaptive elearning research group at the school of computer science and engineering at the university of new south wales in sydney australia . 1 adaptive learning is an educational method using computers as interactive teaching devices adapting educational material according to students learning needs . 2 the technology incorporates the interactivity previously only afforded by an actual human teacher and integrates ideas from various fields including computer science education and psychology . the smart sparrow software tools known collectively as the adaptive elearning platform are a web based suite that develops adaptive learning content and applications deploys that material to students and analyses how students learn from their responses to the material . 3 the platform implements an intelligent tutoring system that combines constraint based modeling with model tracing . 4 5 in 2013 an educational white paper learning to adapt a case for accelerating adaptive learning in higher education identified smart sparrow as one of six notable adaptive learning platform providers . 6 the same paper part of a study funded by the bill & melinda gates foundation cited the impact of the smart sparrow platform on increasing enrollments and reducing dropouts . 6 other studies cite accelerated learning times with the platform . 7 by 2013 the platform had become the basis of australia s national biomedical education skills and training network and was being integrated into tertiary courses in differing disciplines at universities in the us and australia . 8 9 10 by later that year smart sparrow was being deployed in australian high schools as part of a collaborative partnership with australian universities to improve student engagement in mathematics and science . 11 references edit henderson j. smart sparrow targets next generation learning after securing first round of funding . newsouth innovations . paramythis a. & s. loidl reisinger . adaptive learning environments and e learning standards pdf . electronic journal of elearning 2004 . archived from the original on march 31 2010 . retrieved march 24 2013 . cs1 maint unfit url link smart sparrow adaptive elearning platform . smart sparrow . retrieved march 23 2013 . mitrovic a. k. koedinger and b. martin . a comparative analysis of cognitive tutoring and constraint based modeling pdf . retrieved 8 august 2012 . cs1 maint multiple names authors list link ben naim d. m. bain & n. marcus . a user driven and data driven approach for supporting teachers in reflection and adaptation of adaptive tutorials pdf . www.educationaldatamining.org . retrieved 8 august 2012 . a b newman a. ; p. stokes & g. bryant . learning to adapt a case for accelerating adaptive learning in higher education . education growth advisors . retrieved march 21 2013 . mcdonald s. 1 august 2012 . virtual learning revolutionising universities . computerworld australia . retrieved march 21 2013 . sharma m. august 9 2012 . virtual patient gets funding injection . sydney morning herald . retrieved march 21 2013 . soms and smart sparrow . unsw school of medical sciences . retrieved march 21 2013 . smart sparrow case studies . smart sparrow . retrieved march 24 2013 . innovation australia . australian maths and science partnerships program . australian government . retrieved 16 june 2013 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title smart sparrow & oldid 725517790 categories educational technology companieshidden categories cs1 maint unfit urlcs1 maint multiple names authors list navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 16 june 2016 at 04 45 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view