Alta User Story – Sharon North

I chose to use OER, specifically OpenStax, two years ago due to many students’ financial limitations. I looked into courseware options with OpenStax partners and found alta by Knewton. Alta was the only option that adapted to my individual students’ areas of weakness. By incorporating alta into my classes, I’ve given my students a platform that addresses their specific needs!

 

I use alta in six different math courses as a homework system, at 15% toward my students’ final grade.

 

 

To measure alta’s impact on student proficiency, we analyzed the results that Sharon's students achieved working in alta.

 

 

The adaptive nature of the product gives students a review of prerequisite topics when and where they need it. Also, the courses are easy to adapt to our state and district’s required student learning outcomes. Alta is the perfect companion courseware to our new redesigned pathways courses with corequisites, because the corequisite student support is already built in.

 

The alta platform allows instructors to choose their own learning objectives from a whole suite of topics making it easy to use in any redesign model. The alta content team is extremely knowledgeable and creative in their mapping of the course content. They are also willing and able to support instructors who are creating new redesigned courses. The team has been invaluable in their contribution to designing content that aligns to the pathways/corequisite initiatives in Missouri.