Adaptive Tutorials

Select from the demos below to experience the Adaptive eLearning Tutorials already in action at UNSW and other universities around the world.

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Virtual microscopy – Find the tattoo

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Year 7 and 8 science students learn about how microscopes use lenses to magnify objects. At the end of the tutorial, students are asked to view and navigate a virtual microscope slide of tattooed human skin – zoom in to see if you can see the tattoo ink beneath the skin surface.

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Onion Tip Tutorial

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This tutorial is designed for high school teachers to demonstrate how virtual microscope slides can be used in science classes. Using a virtual slide of an onion root tip, users will identify the regions of the root tip and locate cells at different stages of mitosis.

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Blood Typing Virtual Lab

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The Blood Typing Virtual Lab examines human blood types. Students solve a paternity case using standard blood type tests in a virtual laboratory.  Punnett squares and key genetics terms are reviewed.  The tutorial is being run this year as part of the Museum of Human Disease HSC Biology workshop and is aimed at the core unit on Blueprint of Life.

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Virtual Microscopy – Chest Pain Adaptive Tutorial

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The Chest Pain Adaptive Tutorial is used to teach histology and histopathology. The tutorial features VMATs, which present high resolution microscopic digital images. A teacher can visually define regions of health and disease on the image, create questions around these regions and create dynamic real-time feedback for the students based on their right and wrong answers. Adaptive feedback can include text, images, video and internet links.

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V-Lab – Oxygen Electrode

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The Oxygen Electrode v-lab simulates real laboratory techniques to explore how energy is utilised in mitochondria. The oxygen electrode Virtual Laboratory (V-Lab) was developed to replace the wet lab (real lab), which was being phased out due to a combination of capacity limitations, the high cost of replacing damaged equipment and access to supervisory staff. This tutorial features an interactive simulation, combined with adaptive feedback to help students perfect their lab techniques, whilst engaging with difficult concepts.

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V-Lab – Western Blotting Basics

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This V-Lab is designed to teach 3rd year Pathology students the technical aspects and relevance of assaying for changes in protein expression due to disease. The V-Lab is used to augment an existing wet-lab experience, which exhibits a number of issues, including class size, availability of resources and health and safety concerns. The tutorial features an interactive simulation of a wet-lab, embedded videos used to help teach students correct lab techniques and adaptive feedback.

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Adaptive Mechanics Portal – Dynamics

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The Adaptive Mechanics Portal represents a collaboration between seven leading universities to create a pioneering suite of Adaptive Tutorials that teach key threshold concepts in first year mechanics. The Portal features a series of Adaptive Tutorials, including an Adaptive Dynamics tutorial, which provide students with an interactive and personalised learning experience. The teacher has access to rich activity data for individual and group performance, which can include integration through a Moodle plug-in to their Learning Management System (LMS). Visit the Adaptive Mechanics Portal here.

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Adaptive Mechanics Portal – Introduction to Engineering Drawing

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Introduction to Engineering Drawing is another example of the Adaptive Mechanics Portal tutorials. The tutorial takes students through a series of questions and tasks, combined with Adaptive Feedback, pop up info boxes, multiple question types, polls which compare the students’ answers to that of their classmates and more.

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Adaptive Statistics – Business Statistics

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Adaptive Statistics tutorials gives students the chance to explore real or realistic data from familiar situations such as supermarket sales for descriptive statistics tutorials, male students’ heights for the normal distribution, juice bottle volumes for hypothesis testing and solar power output for the regression analysis. The Business Statistics tutorial features interactive graphs, interactive tables and an interactive equation builder. Students are led through a series of tasks, with Adaptive Feedback to help keep them on the right track and instantly address any misunderstandings.

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Habitable Worlds – Which Star to Wish Upon

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Which Star to Wish Upon is an Adaptive Tutorial designed by Professor Ariel Anbar of Arizona State University, to teach students the process of science, rather than just a list of facts and concepts. The tutorial blends a number of the Smart Sparrow Adaptive eLearning Platform’s capabilities, including scientifically accurate simulators, immersive virtual field trips (VFT) and Adaptive Sequencing, into engaging and interactive exercises.