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TEX
Ditching textbooks for iPads within The University of Texas System
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Client
University of Texas
Product
Learning platform for undergraduate degrees
Human Need
Knowing that only 60% of students in the US complete their bachelor’s degree programs within six years of starting, The University of Texas System wanted to offer their students a new way to learn. Their goal was to increase persistence and retention by making earning a degree more convenient, affordable, and engaging.
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Digital Solution
UT teamed up with Robots & Pencils to develop TEx—a data-driven, mobile-only learning platform designed to provide an individualized, accessible and affordable college experience for UT students.
With TEx, students use an iPad to interact anytime, anywhere with learning, competency-based assessments, group discussions and one-on-one messaging. TEx entirely eliminates the need to buy or carry around heavy textbooks, while providing a central resource for everything from tracking academic progress to requesting academic support. Using real-time data and integrated social tools, faculty and staff can also personalize students’ learning experiences and provide targeted, timely interventions which are continually improved as additional data is collected.
A Far Better Way
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126 students in the biomedical sciences program at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley piloted TEx.
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86 students advanced through the biology course on an accelerated track with a C or above, with 80% earning a B or above.
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Half of the remaining 40 students in the normally paced track also earned a C or better.
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