From EdTech:
Imagine a Web-based learning assistant that provides students with individualized and highly-targeted instruction in a variety of subjects. By assessing a student’s current knowledge in a subject, it would be able to deliver only the topics that the student is ready to learn… Wil: ALEKS began in 1992 as a project at the University of California to use Knowledge Space Theory to build an intelligent learning and assessment system with major funding from the National Science Foundation.

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