Adaptive learning: a powerful tool for training

Feb 11, 2025

Blog home

The growing importance of adaptive learning in the world of training and education is undeniable. This approach, which is based on learner data, makes it possible to personalize learning to the needs of each individual.

What is adaptive learning?

The rise of adaptive learning: a revolution in learning

Adaptive learning has become a major trend in the field of vocational training. Its origin dates back to the 1970s, but it is in recent years with the rise of digital learning technologies that this approach has really taken off.

The rapid development of automation, big data and more recently artificial intelligence has enabled adaptive learning to gain in efficiency and relevance, but also in accessibility, thus offering an innovative solution to meet the growing needs in personalized learning.

But what is adaptive learning?

Adaptive learning is a teaching method that relies on the personalization of learning paths according to individual needs, skills and preferences.

Unlike traditional methods where all learners follow the same curriculum, adaptive learning adapts content and exercises to provide a tailored learning experience and allow everyone to learn at their own pace, while targeting gaps.

The key principles of adaptive learning are:

  • Individualization: each learner benefits from a personalized course, adapted to his level and his objectives.

  • Measure: data on learners' performance and behavior is continuously collected and analyzed to adjust the program.

  • Adaptation: the content and the exercises evolve according to the progress and the needs of each individual.

Advantages and limits of adaptive learning

The advantages of adaptive learning are numerous:

  • A more effective training thanks to the personalization of content and exercises. Knowledge and skills are therefore better assimilated by learners.

  • A better motivation: learners feel involved and supported throughout the process.

  • And time saving for trainers who can focus on supporting learners rather than on course management.

However, adaptive learning also has some limitations:

  • The need to have a powerful and reliable digital learning tool allowing both to deploy digital training courses while offering advanced adaptive learning features.

  • A significant investment upstream of the training on the part of the trainer who will have to adapt the teaching aids and configure the adaptive learning mechanisms.

  • The risk of losing some important aspects of teaching, such as empathy and emotional support, by going “all digital”.

The impact of adaptive learning on organizations

The implementation of adaptive learning in organizations can significantly improve the quality and effectiveness of training.

By providing a personalized learning experience, employees are more motivated and engaged, resulting in better skill acquisition and a positive impact on overall performance.

In addition, training managers can follow the progress of learners in real time and adapt their teaching strategy accordingly.

Adaptive learning has the potential to profoundly transform training and education by offering an approach centered on the needs of each individual while relying on digital and automated tools. Artificial intelligence, for its part, offers promising prospects for simplifying the implementation of adaptive learning.

Adaptive learning with ExperQuiz

ExperQuiz makes it possible to deploy advanced and highly customizable adaptive learning courses.

Thanks to the “Consequences” functionality, trainers can define the actions and steps that will be proposed to learners according to the activity and the results.

ExperQuiz also allows you to go further by combining adaptive learning and micro learning to allow learners to assimilate the knowledge acquired during training on a long-term basis.

Adaptive learning: a powerful tool for training - Feb 11, 2025

The growing importance of adaptive learning in the world of training and education is undeniable. This approach, which is based on learner data, makes it possible to personalize learning to the needs of each individual.
Memory and Learning - Jan 27, 2025

Memory is obviously indispensable for any form of learning. It has always been a subject of research, particularly because it was even more crucial before the invention of writing and printing.
How to choose a powerful online quiz maker? - Jan 17, 2025

Online quizzes are particularly effective for testing knowledge, engaging learners, collecting data to improve training or even simply creating fun activities.

It is still necessary to rely on a digital tool that makes it possible to respond precisely to the goals of the questionnaires.

Different types of quiz maker exist, more or less complete and more or less specialized: for example, some only do fun quizzes, others integrate assessment functionalities into a more global online training solution.
LMS: Understanding the Learning Management System for online training - Jan 13, 2025

Discover all the features offered by an LMS platform: content management, pedagogy, assessments and more!
Enhancing Learning With AI-Powered Assessments - Dec 5, 2024

Generative Artificial Intelligence has been integrated to almost all digital learning platforms to provide new services, such as the creation of eLearning courses, videos, text-to-speech etc. But what about assessment?
Automated correction for open-ended questions - Dec 5, 2024

ExperQuiz offers a type of question that is corrected by a trainer asynchronously: it's the open-ended question. The reviewer can write an appreciation and assign a grade which is then integrated into the overall evaluation score.
A white label LMS - Nov 18, 2024

Relying on the expertise of a solution editor while offering a course that reflects its visual identity is possible thanks to white label digital learning platforms!
Enhancing Customer Experience: Integrating Webinars With Assessments - Oct 30, 2024

Create unique webinar experiences and distance yourself from the competition by using all the power of assessment.
Optimizing skills management in companies - Oct 29, 2024

In a constantly evolving professional context, mastering skills is a major challenge for companies seeking to strengthen their competitiveness and secure their future. Let's explore skills management from different angles: from the need to define a common framework, through the challenges linked to skills assessment, to the crucial contribution of technologies in the implementation of effective assessment strategies.
Professional Training 2.0 : How Generative AI Changes the Game - Oct 28, 2024

The term generative AI is everywhere, especially since the arrival of ChatGPT from OpenAI. But what is it in concrete terms and what impacts does this new technology have on the world of professional training?

Boost your marketing strategy with training and learning - Oct 14, 2024
Assessment and, more broadly, training can be used to effectively enrich a company's sales and marketing strategy. The goal is to engage prospects and customers by creating high value content, promoting expertise and brand image. Training becomes a strategic lever for business growth!
Easily create online quizzes - Oct 7, 2024
Easily create your online quizzes with the ExperQuiz LMS and quickly distribute them to the people you need to evaluate! Create a free, no-commitment admin account and start building quizzes in no time!
The different forms of assessments - Sep 3, 2024
Assessment can take several forms depending on the objectives, contexts, and methods used.
PAPI & Soft Skills - Jul 12, 2024
To assess soft skills, tools like the PAPI (Personality and Preference Inventory) are essential. In a constantly evolving professional world, technical skills (hard skills) are no longer enough to guarantee the success of an individual or an organization. Behavioral skills, often called “soft skills”, are becoming more and more important!
How Evaluation Supports The Development Of Employee Skills - Feb 27, 2024
Often used as a tool to check knowledge and to deliver certification, assessment is perceived as a test by learners. However, it is a rich and effective learning tool that helps support the skills development of employees.
AI Question Generator by ExperQuiz! - Feb 26, 2024
To help trainers use assessments to drive learning, ExperQuiz has developed a question generator that uses artificial intelligence to create relevant questions and answers that can easily be used.
Training assessment: the Kirkpatrick model - Jan 16, 2024
It's difficult to talk about training evaluation without talking about the Kirkpatrick model, named after Donald Kirkpatrick, who set out his vision in particular in a 1994 work entitled “Evaluating Training Programs”.
Knowledge assessment - Jan 9, 2024
The assessment of knowledge is a quite different issue from that of training evaluation based on surveys. Knowledge assessment is the objective measurement of the outcomes that were the subject of the training, while satisfaction evaluation is, by nature, a subjective measurement.
Soft skills assessment with ExperQuiz - Jan 9, 2024
Unlike hard skills, which are a person's technical skills and often called “know-how”, soft skills are more difficult to define. However, they can be considered as a person's “interpersonal skills ”.
Adaptive-learning and micro-learning by ExperQuiz - Dec 12, 2023
ExperQuiz is one of France's leading specialists in the key concepts of assessment, adaptive learning and microlearning. Its many customers will agree: "When it comes to learning, it's essential to be able to vary approaches, to approach the same learning from different angles and with different tools, different rhythms"... and to have the essential tools at your disposal.
Best practices for creating questionnaires - Nov 20, 2023
Discover all our best practices for creating a questionnaire that is both effective and relevant to address your assessment challenges.
Why choose a LAS for your digital learning programs? - Oct 22, 2023
Like the LMS, a LAS is a SaaS, digital learning solution that allows companies, training centers and educational institutions to provide complete training courses including training assessment.
Assessment and learning - Oct 13, 2023
Many studies have analyzed successful pedagogical models. Their knowledge and the analysis of their lessons make it possible to enrich learning, in particular by addressing the problem of objective assessment in business.
What is e-learning ? - Oct 13, 2023
The term e-learning (for electronic learning) refers to online learning or online training. For several years now, the term "e-learning" has become common, thanks to the arrival and democratization of digital learning technologies.
What is blended learning? - Oct 9, 2023
Blended learning (hybrid training or mixed training) is a type of training that combines face-to-face and digital tools (like those of e-learning).
Training assessment white paper - Oct 3, 2023
Get the best practices of training assessment in our free white paper and create great surveys following your trainings!
ExperQuiz and training assessment - Sep 15, 2023
ExperQuiz is a complete Learning and Assessment Solution. Meaning it is a full featured LMS platform, which is characterized by particularly rich and advanced functionalities in terms of assessment.
The online attendance register by ExperQuiz - Aug 21, 2023
The attendance sheet makes it possible to meet legal obligations and digitalization offers an enriched and fluid experience to learners, trainees and trainers.
What is m-learning in the world of digital learning? - Jul 18, 2023
One of these new methods is m-learning, or mobile learning, which has transformed access to training. But what exactly is m-learning?
The authoring tool: definition - Jul 10, 2023
Different tools are used to completely digitize a training process: from the administrative part, to the distribution of training, through the design of e-learning modules. It is in this last phase that the authoring tool plays its role.
What is upskilling reskilling and cross-skilling? - Jun 26, 2023
3 terms regularly emerge in the world of professional training: upskilling, reskilling and cross-skilling. These different notions make it possible to better define the objectives of a training course and can therefore help a company to adapt to change, to deepen its knowledge and to improve the flexibility of its personnel.
What is an LXP platform? - Jun 12, 2023
Learning Experience Platforms (LXP) are increasingly popular in the universe of training professionals. They offer a learner-centric approach with innovative features that dramatically improve the learning experience for employees and organizations.
Will AI replace trainers? - Jun 2, 2023
With the arrival of OpenAI innovation, ChatGPT, artificial intelligence is at the forefront and we now know that all sectors will be impacted fairly quickly. The world of training is obviously not spared.
Synchronous & asynchronous learning : differences & advantages - May 23, 2023
We regularly hear about synchronous and asynchronous learning. These two notions refer to two teaching methods : both have advantages and these 2 approaches can be combined depending on the educational objectives.
Best practices for designing an effective elearning module - May 16, 2023
E-learning modules are a great way to deliver training on almost any topic at scale. But what are the best practices for designing and deploying effective elearning modules?
The challenges of training assessment - Jan 16, 2023
Evaluating a training means determining its value, but what defines the value of a training? It seems to us that the clearest definition would be: to what extent did the training achieve the stated objectives? Which, of course, presupposes having defined them in a precise and systematic manner.
How to increase assessment acceptance in companies - Jan 11, 2023
Assessment is simply quantifying something and giving it a value. The action of measuring is normally and generally something objective and precise. However, assessment is something less cartesian, often influenced by subjectivity.
What is a flipped classroom? - Jan 6, 2023
The flipped classroom is a pedagogical approach that is developing more and more thanks to digital technology and which makes it possible to focus learning on the student.
Adaptive Learning In Practice - Dec 20, 2022
Adaptive learning is a powerful tool to enhance both teaching and learning, but depends on strong digital learning solutions.
What is nudge? - Dec 6, 2022
The English term “Nudge” means to give a little push or a little boost to someone. That is to say, a subtle indication that we give to someone to encourage them to do or not to do something.
Using Assessment To Drive Effective Skills Management - Nov 28, 2022
A Learning Assessment Solution enables you to benefit from strong and reliable assessments to enrich and drive skills management in any type of organization.
Using Assessment To Improve Training And Learning - Nov 28, 2022
Training assessment is key and essential for training organizations and for companies. It is an opportunity to improve and increase the quality and the effectiveness of the training they provide.
Digital learning : democratization or dehumanization ? - Nov 16, 2022
Digital training do not replace human interactions but offer the opportunity to create personalized training experiences with more precise support.
Adaptive learning: a powerful tool for training - Aug 25, 2022
The growing importance of adaptive learning in the world of training and education is undeniable. This approach, which is based on learner data, makes it possible to personalize learning to the needs of each individual.