Personalized Learning: People, Practices, and Products
It's our nature to seek out words to attach to the issues that matter, an inclination clearly at work within the universe of activities collected under the term personalized learning.
It's our nature to seek out words to attach to the issues that matter, an inclination clearly at work within the universe of activities collected under the term personalized learning.
Leadership will be the most important part of the quest for a grand unification of academic technologies and big data to support our students—quite possibly leadership in roles that may not yet exist.
With community and workforce needs evolving at breakneck speed, community colleges can offer a nimble response, along with an open-access opportunity for students.
College and university faculty and administrators alike must take more nuanced, responsible, and informed approaches to using metrics for promotion and tenure decisions.
It's time to move faculty development away from the idea of teaching to the middle and toward a connected learning framework that embraces personalized learning.
The idea that education technology should be plug & play via an interoperable foundation is rapidly becoming mainstream.
Technology provides higher education with tools that can tailor the learning experience to the individual, help at-risk students master core skills, and develop guided pathways that assess students' progress toward graduation and suggest interventions if challenges arise along the way.
The authors offer a framework—based on three years of campus visits—for thinking about (1) the circumstances under which personalized learning can help students and (2) the best way to evaluate the real educational value for products that are marketed under the personalized learning banner.
Both the 21st-century economy and the careers needed to fuel it are changing at an unprecedented rate. Students must be prepared for nonlinear careers, pivoting to match the ever-changing work landscape. We thus need to rethink not just how we teach our students but what we teach our students.
Emerging tools and technologies help students make better-informed choices to assist them in reaching their educational goals.