Combining competency-based education and mastery learning is the ideal way to personalize learning and increase retention. This type of educational approach molds itself to the individual student; using a feedback loop model, students do not move forward unless and until they are ready to, leading to near-optimal learning efficiency. In addition, this model increases retention of students in early courses from less than ideal backgrounds. This talk will describe some of the software tools currently available from various sources, some under development, and some that are just over the horizon.
