What is Mindspark ?
Mindspark is a computer based adaptive self-learning programme. It is a learning system that allows the student to construct his/her own learning – at a pace he/she is comfortable with. It is an interactive system, where the student is not learning passively by listening to someone, or viewing ready-made solutions, but learning interactively by answering questions of progressively increasing complexity levels.
At the heart of Mindspark is the theory that students learn best when they control the pace of learning. There have been several successful experiments worldwide on this. Mindspark is a genesis of various such experiments.
A key advantage of Mindspark is the fact that it successfully harnesses the power of new technologies to bolster learning. An intelligent computer system uses a complex adaptive logic to decide what problem to serve up to a student next, based on his/her response to the current problem and problems answered earlier. The system is also able to identify when a student needs help to understand a concept, and proceeds to give him/her explanations that will help him/her move ahead.