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We are a learning technology company applying cutting-edge research in cognitive science to achieve breakthroughs in computer-based learning. Our aim is to revolutionize learning in the workplace, school, and home. We have devised methods that adapt to individual learners and have addressed crucial dimensions of learning and expertise -- such as pattern recognition and perceptual learning -- that have traditionally been considered "unteachable". Take a look at our various learning modules or learn more about some of the key features of our products.
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Our research is supported by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education. In 2010, Insight Learning Technology received a Fast-Track SBIR award from the IES Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program in order to further develop our Perceptual Learning Module (PLM) products. Previously in 2006 we also received a Cognition and Student Learning grant to research the viability of perceptual learning techniques on elementary and middle school math learning.
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Our research is supported by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education. In 2010, Insight Learning Technology received a Fast-Track SBIR award from the IES Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program in order to further develop our Perceptual Learning Module (PLM) products. Previously in 2006 we also received a Cognition and Student Learning grant to research the viability of perceptual learning techniques on elementary and middle school math learning.
For more information, click here to visit the IES website to read a brief description about us.
Insight Learning Technology was awarded a Fast-Track SBIR award in 2010. The purpose of the project will be to improve middle school algebra learning, with the focus on developing students' pattern recognition and fluency skills through the use of perceptual and adaptive learning technologies.
Project goals include the following:
For more information, click here to view the official description of the SBIR contract on the IES website.
The Cognition and Student Learning (Cognition) research program looks specifically to bring recent advances in cognitive science into education practice, with examples including new methods of instruction and computer tutors. Professor Philip Kellman (founder of Insight Learning Technology) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) was awarded this grant in 2006. Its main purpose was to help students in grades 3-8 to develop a deeper understanding of measurement and fractions as well as to connect these domains to the concepts of multiplication, division, ratio, and proportion.
Furthermore, the focus of the project would be to test the efficacy of perceptual learning methods in conjuction with other modes of instruction. Computer-based Perceptual Learning Modules (PLMs) aimed at achieving fluency in recognizing and discriminating key structures and relationships, were developed for this purpose.
Schools located in California and Pennsylvania were involved in a controlled study designed to test the effects of perceptual learning techniques as compared to the existing mathematics curriculum.
Publications from this project include:
For more information, click here to view the official description of the Cognition and Student Learning Grant on the IES website.
Due to recent publicity from the New York Times and CBS News, a brief article about Insight Learning Technology also appeared on the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) homepage. We are proud that our research is being sponsored by the IES's SBIR program. Learn more.
Insight Learning Technology, Inc. products were featured in a CBS News - The Early Show segment on perceptual learning. Students are observed using various learning modules in a classroom setting and give their opinions regarding their learning experience.
Insight Learning Technology, Inc. was featured in a New York Times article entitled Brain Calisthenics for Abstract Ideas, which delves into the concepts behind perceptual learning and the process of developing learning products based on years of research.
Insight Learning Technology received a Fast-Track SBIR award by the Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to be used over the span of two-and-a-half years. Learn more.
Insight Learning Technology, Inc. is proud to announce the launch of its new Word Insight™ product, which uses its patented technology to improve the learning of English words and roots. Word Insight™ promises to be a superior method for preparing for the Verbal sections of the SAT and ACT, as well as for anyone seeking a better vocabulary and command of English.
Insight Learning Technology, Inc. is pleased to announce the issuance of US Patent No. 7052277: System and Method for Adaptive Learning, which will grant Insight exclusive rights to develop learning technology that will improve efficiency and adapt to individual learners.
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Algebra Insight™ encourages students to pick up on underlying patterns and relationships in algebraic expressions, allowing them to more quickly recognize equivalent expressions and legal transformations.
Through repeated presentations of different mapping combinations, the Multiple Representations (MultiRep) module helps students develop the ability to extract key information from word problems and generate the relevant equations and graphs needed to solve them.
Best Basic Math™ is a module designed to help children learn basic math facts. Using computer- based sequencing techniques, Best Basic Math™ ensures that a child memorizes their basic math facts in the most efficient way possible.
Geography Insight™ combines sequencing technology along with visual presentation techniques to optimize the pick-up of perceptual learning cues, fostering long-lasting geography learning.
Word Insight™ helps students to prepare for standardized vocabulary tests. Students are trained not only on the definitions of individual words, but also on the deeper meaning of the Latin roots that make them up, allowing them to decipher even new, novel terms.
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Algebra Insight™ encourages students to pick up on underlying patterns and relationships in algebraic expressions, allowing them to more quickly recognize equivalent expressions and legal transformations.
Through repeated presentations of different mapping combinations, the Multiple Representations (MultiRep) module helps students develop the ability to extract key information from word problems and generate the relevant equations and graphs needed to solve them.
Best Basic Math™ is a module designed to help children learn basic math facts. Using computer- based sequencing techniques, Best Basic Math™ ensures that a child memorizes their basic math facts in the most efficient way possible.
Algebra Insight™ teaches students to see patterns and relationships in algebraic equations; more specifically, it enables learners to be able to quickly recognize equivalent expressions and legal algebraic transformations.
The basic rules of algebra do not seem too difficult: whatever you do to one side of the equation you must do to the other. In this case, the problem is not so much a lack of understanding of the procedure, but instead an inability to see what these operations are actually doing and how they are altering the structure of the underlying equation. Simply knowing the rule is not enough; more emphasis must be put into developing fluency and familiarity in recognizing and applying these rules. Algebra Insight™ aims to remedy this often overlooked aspect of algebra learning.
A majority of the learning session is devoted to structure mapping problems. Students are presented with an equation and are asked to identify from a set of four choices an equivalent form of that equation. The task may seem difficult and strange to students at first since they are not asked to actually solve anything. However, over time these activities help to invoke students' pattern recognition skills in noticing key structural features of equations and legal transformations while at the same time filtering out characteristics of illegal operations.
The learning session is also interspersed with more conventional solve problems in which students must decide what operation to perform in order to change an equation from one state to another. Together, these questions provide a unique and powerful learning experience that result in long-lasting benefits.
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A majority of the Algebra Insight™ learning trials are devoted to structure mapping problems. |
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After each answer selection you will be given feedback as to the appropriateness of your choice: |
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In addition to structure mapping problems, you will also encounter an occasional solve problem. |
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After every 10 learning presentations you will be shown a summary progress report. The progress report shows you your average accuracy and average response time for the previous block of 10 problems that you have completed. |
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When the application feels you have achieved mastery of specific concepts you will be notified that you have graduated to a new mastery level. When all mastery levels are completed, the module will end. |
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The Multiple Representations or MultiRep module is designed to teach students to map between different representations or forms of the same problem -- namely equations, graphs, and word problems.
Many students express frustration when it comes to word problems. Indeed, to solve a word problem requires several things: comprehension of the text and what is being asked, an appropriate method by which to answer that question, and the ability to correctly use the numbers given in the problem. This is clearly a much more difficult task than your standard plug-and-chug problem where everything, save calculation of the final answer, has already been done for you. It is easy to see how students can get hung up on these sorts of word problems without assistance and extensive practice. MultiRep Insight™ aims to fulfill this role, providing a multitude of examples and detailed feedback.
MultiRep also helps students map word problems and equations to graphs as well. Students learn that equations of the form y=mx+b can be interpreted visually as a graph on the coordinate plane and that these representations are interchangeable; while an equation can be used to solve a word problem, another strategy is to generate an appropriate graph. Progression through the module builds understanding of these concepts.
Students also develop speed and fluency in identifying key information in word problems and recognizing corresponding equation and graph representations. MultiRep achieves this through many trials of different mapping combinations (i.e. word problem to graph, graph to equation, etc.), encouraging students to see a problem from many different angles. As a result, students are not just learning a procedure; they are developing a deeper understanding of how word problems, graphs, and equations all relate to one another.
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A majority of the MultiRep Insight™ learning trials are devoted to structure mapping problems. |
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After every 10 learning presentations you will be shown a summary progress report. The progress report shows you your average accuracy and average response time for the previous block of 10 problems that you have completed. |
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When the application feels you have achieved mastery of specific concepts you will be notified that you have graduated to a new mastery level. When all mastery levels are completed, the module will end. |
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Even in an age of calculators, every child must learn basic math facts. When first beginning to learn arithmetic, there are basic facts that need to be understood and memorized (i.e., 2 + 3 = 5). As a child advances, they will learn procedures for adding numbers of any size, such as 159 + 23 = ?. While the answer to this problem can easily be computed using the rules of long addition, this procedure assumes that the basics have been learned: in this case, the addition of single-digit numbers.
It is remarkable how much of a hurdle the basics can be for children; committing basic math facts to memory is not a particularly meaningful activity for most. Yet, learning the basics is essential. Difficulties with basic math facts - simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division - can erode a child's progress and interest in later mathematics. Evidence suggests that large proportions of children in the 7th and 8th grade and beyond have not truly mastered all the basic multiplication facts or even addition and subtraction. Imagine the difficulty of a child being taught algebra in the 8th or 9th grade who is never really sure what 9 x 8 equals.
Part of the problem is a lack of good ways to teach these facts and a way to make sure that they have been learned. Our goal at Insight Learning Technology, Inc. has been to apply to this problem the cutting edge of computer-based techniques for getting this learning to occur in the simplest and most efficient way possible.
Do you have tasks that really need to be learned, but where learning is spotty, transient, or incomplete?
Contact us for a consultation. We can build stand-alone programs or computer-based supplements to your instructor-led training or e-learning that will lead to efficient and lasting mastery by each learner. Our breakthrough methods will cut the time and cost of learning and increase the performance and confidence of your employees. Let us show you that these methods outperform any current approach to learning.
Contact us at : info@insightlearningtech.com
(winner of the National Medal of Science
for her work on Perceptual Learning)
A characteristic of experts in any domain is that they selectively pick up relevant information, discover important patterns, and see key structure in new cases or situations. They are able to extract structure quickly and fluently with little effort (cognitive load), freeing up attention for higher-level problem solving. It had been thought that this kind of learning could not be systematically taught and could only be slowly acquired through experience.
However, from recent applied research we now know how to teach and accelerate the development of perceptual learning. This has been a crucial missing link in learning. In mathematics, for example, students are ordinarily taught facts, concepts, and procedures, but there have not been effective ways to teach students to SEE -- to classify what they are looking at in novel situations, to know which procedures or facts are relevant, and to be able to process fluently so that basic information extraction does not overload complex problem solving.
Our Perceptual Learning Modules™ (PLMs) offer, for the first time, systematic ways of teaching pattern recognition. PLMs targeting crucial domains in mathematics and science have been shown to have powerful, long-lasting effects on students' learning. Because seeing structure is not merely learning to perform a specific task, PLMs have wide-ranging benefits (remote transfer) and can be generalized for solving many kinds of problems. Our patent-pending perceptual learning technology can apply to almost any learning domain, and its potential has only begun to be realized.
Our PLMs, as well as stand-alone Adaptive Learning Modules for factual or procedural learning, utilize our patented adaptive learning technology to tailor interactive learning events to each individual learner. These methods use learner performance, including both accuracy and speed, to make factual, procedural, or perceptual learning more efficient -- often cutting learning time in half.
Core Learning Domains
Insight focuses on important learning domains where traditional education has proven less than entirely effective. STEM learning - Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics - has become a national and international priority and Insight Learning Technology is at the forefront of educational innovations in these areas. Our research is currently supported by the United States Department of Education and the National Science Foundation, as well as a variety of established corporations in the medical and pharmaceutical industries.
Adaptive Learning
Our learning modules adapt to individual learners. Sequencing and spacing are calculated
dynamically depending on the user's current performance, changing throughout the
learning period in order to optimize learning and retention.
Sequencing & Spacing
At the heart of our learning products are patented procedures for determining the order
that items appear in during a learning session. Our algorithm takes into account both
the accuracy and speed of the learner on various learning items to determine what appears
next in order to optimize the learning.
Our automated sequencing procedures guarantee that items will not be repeated too soon or too late -- both of which can impede learning. Less well-learned items will return sooner, whereas better-learned items are spaced further apart. The algorithm attempts to space out presentations for as long as possible, fostering long-term retention of the material.
Tailored Feedback
Our modules are based on short, interactive learning events, offering unprecedented
opportunities for rich feedback and assessment that can be fed directly back into the ongoing
learning. This immediate feedback helps learners to figure out the patterns and relationships that
underlie correct answers.
Objective Learning Criteria
One of the advantages of a computer-based aid to learning is that the status of individual
learning items can be automatically tracked and monitored. This allows for an objective standard of
mastery to be set for every item to be learned.
Retirement
Our products concentrate efforts where learning is needed most. Once items have
become particularly well-learned, they are retired from the learning set for that session so
that the learner can focus on what still needs to be learned.
Bells & Whistles
One thing you will notice about our products is that we differ markedly in style from other educational software. We do not make up games or stories for the student to participate in with the hope that learning will occur incidentally. Our products focus on the learning task.
This contrast is intentional. Although the prevailing trend in educational software is to use games or stories to engage young learners, there is no evidence that these things confer any benefit to learning. In fact, a growing body of research suggests that these "bells and whistles" may actually compete with learning. A common observation is that students learn the story or how to play the game, but not the educational material threaded into the program.
Without stories and games, how can the learner be engaged?
Motivation is important; however, we believe in a direct and honest approach to learning. Learning math and other subjects requires time and effort; students, parents, and teachers should all acknowledge this fact. With even a small commitment, well-designed learning software will motivate on its own, as students feel and see their own performance improve. The student realizes the benefits of a deeper understanding and mastery of the material. These build confidence and satisfaction and help sustain the natural human interest in learning.
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