Recently, workplace learning expert Donald Taylor released the results of his annual L&D Global Sentiment Survey. In that survey, Taylor asked 885 people from 60 countries one single question: “What will be hot in workplace L&D in 2017?”

The top answer, beating out social learning, micro-learning, and augmented reality, was personalized and adaptive delivery of learning.

Taylor’s survey was specifically about 2017, but adaptive learning has been hot for a few years. Time wrote about the adapt…